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Food Print Manhattan

A research project conducted by The Why Factory, MVRDV.
By Winy Maas, Ulf Hackauf, Pirjo Haikola, Bas Kalmeijer, Tihamer Hazarja Salij. Animation: WielandandGouwens

How much food do I consume? How much land is needed to grow it? Could we grow our food in the city? Could we feed all Manhattanites by growing food on Manhattan island?

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Robbie McClam and his wife Sue show off seedlings in the City Roots greenhouse.

Urban Entrants Changing Face of Agriculture

By Eve Moore
Columbia’s Free Times
02/01/2010

Excerpt:

Robbie McClam of City Roots is also a man of many trades. An architect and builder, McClam once headed the Columbia Development Corporation. Now he’s turned his attention to farming.

All the municipal government and planning experience has come in handy. When he wanted to start City Roots, he discovered the city’s industrial zoning classification didn’t allow farms, so he worked with the city’s planning department and City Council to change the zoning ordinance. Future urban farmers of Columbia: Thank Robbie McClam.

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