A community designed to produce its own food

[gorbelly]

This New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, And Handle Its Own Waste



The pictures are excellent pr0n for gardeners!

[funboy30189]

Interesting

[jpop]

very ambitious, love for it to come to fruition to see its validity for other projects.

[Worth1]

How did I know it wasn't in the US.
The US really needs to step up to the plate we are so far behind times in so many ways.
Too much waste.
Too much greed.
Too much dependency.
Not enough of the right kind of education.
Not enough self sufficiency.
Worth

[Rajun Gardener]

We have a new kind of gardening, it's call Agrihood from Detroit. I hope it works and helps.
The local market farmers are trying to teach everyone how to grow and eat healthy

http://detroit.curbed.com/2016/12/1/...detroit-mufi#0

[Worth1]

Better than a basketball court.

Worth

[MuddyToes]

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by MuddyToes

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Muddy Toes +1

That was the first thing I thought when I first saw this thread

For me, this was post #6666. I just wanted to post it to get it over with.

[imp]

Or have hail stones in their storms.

Nice idea on providing food in the OP, and in the Agrihood. Nothing is perfect, but good to see steps being taken along the paths of self sufficiency.

[Gerardo]

Sounds nice, the skeptic in me wants to see if functioning for a year or two before I get really excited. Hope the right people move in.

Agrihood looks cool, go Detroit!

[gorbelly]

Originally Posted by Rajun Gardener

We have a new kind of gardening, it's call Agrihood from Detroit. I hope it works and helps.

I've heard of that project, and it looks amazing!

Originally Posted by Worth1

Better than a basketball court.

Basketball courts are important, too. There's a reason why basketball is a city thing--its requirements are low-tech and inexpensive and a good fit for neighborhoods that are strapped for funds and where space is at a premium. Before it was a sport of black kids in the city, it was the sport of Jewish kids in the city, back when Jewish immigrants still primarily lived in poor urban neighborhoods. Basketball is an important urban institution. It doesn't exist in any kind of opposition to gardening, so it's not as though Detroit residents need to choose one over the other.

Originally Posted by imp

Or have hail stones in their storms.

The Dutch are pretty darn good engineers in the face of some daunting environmental challenges. I suspect they've accounted for hail, vandalism, etc.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Better than a basketball court.

Worth

Originally Posted by gorbelly

I've heard of that project, and it looks amazing!


Basketball courts are important, too. There's a reason why basketball is a city thing--its requirements are low-tech and inexpensive and a good fit for neighborhoods that are strapped for funds and where space is at a premium. Before it was a sport of black kids in the city, it was the sport of Jewish kids in the city, back when Jewish immigrants still primarily lived in poor urban neighborhoods. Basketball is an important urban institution. It doesn't exist in any kind of opposition to gardening, so it's not as though Detroit residents need to choose one over the other.




The Dutch are pretty darn good engineers in the face of some daunting environmental challenges. I suspect they've accounted for hail, vandalism, etc.

Here is the history of it.

[gorbelly]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Here is the history of it.

I'm sorry, Worth, but with all respect, no American thinks about basketball courts in poor urban neighborhoods and doesn't at least subconsciously have race in their minds. It doesn't make people racists to associate these things--it makes them not aliens.

So if that makes you angry or defensive, all I can say is that I am an American and not an alien, and I don't believe that you're an alien, either. When any American talks about inner city kids not valuing education and placing too much emphasis on basketball, I connect that with a long history of American rhetoric that explains the problems of black urban culture by claiming their cultural priorities are pathological. So I prefer to point out that no community would value something of exceedingly poor quality such as the education systems in poor parts of this country. If we want people in places with bad schools to value their educations, we need to make those schools better, not tut tut them for liking sports.

That is all.

[KarenO]

looks like my kind of place. A community which would require sharing and cooperation among it`s members. I think this would work here on Vancouver Island as well. I hope it is the beginning of a great new way of thinking.
KarenO

[ACEBUGGIES]

http://theurbanfarmingguys.com/
Pretty awesome people, pretty awesome situation!