Community Farming
- Divya jyothi
- Apr 27, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 26, 2020
Harshini G | " Resource should be an asset to the Local Community!" Farming creates a great impact by providing interactive spaces to grow healthy food to fuel healthy communities.
Project description
Project idea
The idea is to promote social and environmental justice. Exploiting the value of a neighborhood for that neighborhood by ingeniously enriching the vacant land with waste wood/food products to have a rich farm. Employ local people to produce healthy food the community needs.
Need for the project
By 2050, it is believed that the world’s population will be 10 billion that means 70% more food required. Our very well being depends on a healthy, sustainable, and plentiful food supply. Bringing the farm into the city eliminates these problems. We need a production system that has its goal “health of a local community”. A lot of urban voids in the ward which are underutilized gives us the potential to develop them into something resourceful.
Objective of the project
This project takes underutilized spaces and transforms them into places of community empowered food production. Engages the community through horticultural training programs while supporting neighborhood gardens & a new form of recreational activity spaces as well as educating locals about "food importance"
Project site details
Site selection criteria
1. First criteria: Site should have a large expanse (1-acre minimum)
2. Second criteria: The site should have residential land use around it.
3. Third criteria: Site should have multiple means of accessibility
4. Fourth criteria: site should be an urban void
5. Fifth criteria: Site caters to a wide diversity and demographic
6. Sixth criteria: Site can be fully pedestrian ideally or favoring minimum vehicular movement within
Site details
Area of the site - 59700sqm
Main access roads are Doddanekundi main road , Lake view road
Key features are low lying site adjacent to the doddanekundi lake, which lies in-between the lake and railway line.
Design Proposals
Concept Presentations
Final Presentation
Bibliography: https://www.cityfarmer.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/liam1.jpg
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