This website is a collection of works, began in 2004, what together explore the many facets of what is termed urban agriculture (UA), from quantitative mapping to creative and cultural responses such as costumes, hand-drawn maps, and group city walks. During this time I have been fascinated by differing yet interconnected question around food production in cities, broadly asking, what does an “Edible City” look like? How extensive will it be, or what cultural practices might emerge in a city of productive soil, edible plants, and small scale agriculture. A city where open spaces, offices corners and rooftops find room for greenhouses, vegetable gardens, and livestock? Where harvests travel less and are more visible, where food is fresh, not because it has been chilled for thousands of miles but because you just picked it.
The need for the Edible City becomes urgent as we become a globally urban species, and that these megacities can, and should, grow part of the food they consume, rather than rely wholly on external agriculture. This is likely to happen when countries enter into a period of crisis, but how can we embrace urban agriculture in permanence, as a necessary step towards more sustainable urbanism?
