‘Mobile Food Collective’ Rolls into Chicago to Support Urban Farming

Mobile Unit. Pic courtesy of the MFC team.

Chicago Mobile Unit

By Mr. Brown Thumb
Chicago Garden
May 17, 2010

Excerpt:

A fleet of bikes with custom trailers accompanies the Mobile Unit. The bikes carry farming and gardening tools and transport the “mods,” the nesting storage bins below the table, which house programming material. The accompanying bikes can also be used to deliver CSA boxes and are dispersed throughout a community to alert and direct residents to programming happening at the Mobile Unit.

The Mobile Food Collective has two smaller projects in the works that will compliment the Mobile Unit. “Growables,” kits for growing food in the style of the popular Lunchables. They’re also designing a transit map that pinpoints farmers markets and urban farm sites along each of the CTA train lines, so riders can see what ingredients are available along their daily routes.

“Our idea is fairly simple: growing your own food will be more rewarding if you know how to cook and have someone to share a meal with,” says Rachel Belanger.

See the rest of Mr. Brown Thumb’s article here.