Urban Farm Business Initiative

By nonabrooklyn
Mar 18 2011

Excerpt:

Let’s talk a bit about urban agriculture, particularly here in Brooklyn. What excites you about it? What does it all mean?

There’s a lot of excitement. I think urban farming is exciting in part because it’s one of the most provocative things you can do in a city. Urban farming is sort of an oxymoron. Farms are supposed to exist outside of the city. But by joining them together or juxtaposing them, you provide the most radical stimulus for thinking about how you alter the food system. That’s why I’m attracted to it and I think that’s why the media is interested in it. It’s provocative – something you just want to understand.

So people ask me all the time – “You support urban agriculture…do you actually think you’re going to be able to feed the city with this food?”

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