A while back, we reported on some city farming, recently we found out that there is much more of a movement than we thought previously.
An excerpt from “It’s Our Thing”
“Today integrated agriculture has been exaggerated and ballooned into something almost nonsensical. Tokyo is leading the way with a 1000m2 underground farm, in a bank vault, under an office building in Otemachi. Other companies are offering ‘Vertically Integrated Greenhouses’, rooftop gardens, and in general creating the possibility of sustainable office environments. It sounds nice. But is this how ecology works? Will nature let us have our fragmented urban lives and natural farming? I really wonder whether the problem goes much deeper than powering your laptop by exercycle, growing a garden on your roof and having a trout farm in the basement. I dont know though, who’s to say a Total Recall kind of future isn’t less meaningful than a life lived in an Amish treehouse
Picture from the interior of Pasona o2, Tokyo’s underground farm.”
While the folks at City Farmer writes about some interesting points too.
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