Urban Farming

Research on urban farming practices

The line between the city and the country is becoming blurred and new practices are cropping up daily which bring the farm to the urban environment. We are looking into urban farming practices and techniques that we could use in the Fabriek, including artists, designers, and organizations working in this field.

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Elias Snuijf - Elias Snuijf at his hiding place at a farm in De Wijk in May 1942

With:
Plantagon, Except, MetFarm, Louis Bolk Institute, PlantLab

FarmHack

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FarmHack community - FarmHack seeks to solve problems by helping our community of farmers to be better inventors, developing tools that fit the scale and their ethics of our sustainable family farms. Image found on FarmHack

Who?

FarmHack is a community for those who embrace the long-standing farm traditions of tinkering, inventing, fabricating, tweaking, and improving things that break

What?

They offers farmers new opportunities to work together on tools and innovations that will make our farms more sustainable and efficient.

Why?

FarmHack could introduce new ideas or possibilities for urban farming in Mediamatic.

Cityplot

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Cityplot Workshop -

Who?

Cityplot is an urban farming collective that supports people in growing their own organic food - on balconies, on windowsills, in gardens, on empty lots, and along the street!

What?

Cityplot aims to motivate city citizens to GARDEN, by heightening awareness of nature’s cycles in urban areas and by encouraging and supporting them in their gardening and botanical endeavours. Cityplot organizes a lot of workshops all around Amsterdam.

Why?

It can be benefic for everyone to learn how to grow its own vegetables in a urban area.