by Nissa Hanna
WHAT’S HAPPENING
- Dense city neighborhoods don’t generally have much space for garden plots, so the Urban Farming Food Chain project constructs vertical gardens for inner-city communities (ArchRecord.com 10.7.08).
- The green walls don’t just provide a calming connection to nature, they produce edible fruits and vegetables — fresh and free nourishment in food deserts.
- In Summer 2008, the vertical farms bloomed in four places around Los Angeles’ Skid Row, an area with one of the country’s largest homeless populations.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO BUSINESS
- A brand, organization or retailer that can create innovative solutions to provide nutritious food to the people who need it most benefits the whole community.
- Community food gardens nourish the neighborhoods in more than one way; by working together to tend and harvest crops, residents create stronger connections with each other.
- Vertical gardens make use of — and beautify — fences and building exteriors in spaces that are otherwise garden prohibitive.
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