Author David Tracey says urban agriculture will force us to rethink the design of the modern city

David Tracey stands near the Eco Pavilion in Strathcona Community Garden. The Eco Pavilion, a house-like structure with solar panels, is located off Prior and Hawkes streets. Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG, Vancouver Sun.

From garden city to farm city

By Steve Whysall
Vancouver Sun
April 29, 2011

Excerpt:

Imagine Vancouver in the not-too distant future. There are food gardens everywhere. Mini-farms. On rooftops. In parks. Next to gas stations. Filling empty lots.

And there are fruit and vegetable kiosks dotted here and there, selling fresh, organically grown produce that has been picked only a few hours earlier.

And the people are happier and healthier and more connected to the planet and the environment and nature.

What d’you think? Well, this is Vancouver environmental designer and communitybased ecologist David Tracey’s vision of the “green and delicious” city of the future.

He says it will also be “creative and busy and messy and fun and beautiful” but most of all it will be a “farm city.”

Read the complete article here.

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