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farm +
2008 SWA Research Fellowship
agricultural hybrid landscapes
site visits
Chateau Villandry Sunol Ag Park Zenger Farm Luscher Farm
Appleton FarmsPS1 Alemany Farm Parc de Belleville
Sandhill Organics Tryon Farm Parc George-Brassens Bordeaux Botanical Garden
"supermarket seizure"
1500 miles
449 acres
449 acres
17% for agriculture
only 1/5th
for growing
& harvesting
national energy use
87 calories of fuel = 1 calorie of food
6-12 cents of every food dollar
subsidies = $14 billion/year
city
country
what is farm+?
what is farm+?
-working farms
-15 to 50 acres
-multiple markets
-public or private lands
project type
farm +
farm +
project type business model
employee
tenant
ag park
service
farm +
project type business model
employee
tenant
ag park
service
Appleton Farms
Ipswich, MA
land owner – non profit
land manager – non profit
model – employee-farmer
markets- CSA
CSA Farm Facts:
est. 2002
25 acres
500 shares
Sandhill Organics
at Prairie Crossing, Greyslake, IL
land owner – developer
land manager – HOA
model – tenant farmer
markets- CSA, farmers' market
Farm Facts:
est. 2004
16/45 acres
280 shares
Sunol Ag Park
Sunol, CA
land owner – public utility
land manager – non profit
model – ag park/multiple tenants
markets- CSA, restaurants,
farmers' market, brokers
Farm Facts:
est. 2005
5 tenants
18 acres
PS 1 "Public Farm"
Queens, NY
Chateau Villandry
Tours, France
farm +agricultural hybrid landscapes
2008 all rights reserved Ellen Burke
farm +agricultural hybrid landscapes
Cedits and Sources
Slide 3:
Image: 'Supermarket Seizure', Chris Brennan, reused with permission
Slide 4:
B. Kingsolver, S. Hopp and C. Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food, New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers (2007): p5
USAgNet, "Report: Farms, Land in Decline. Average Size Increases", (02.04.2008), http://www.usagnet.com/story-national.php?Id=275&yr=2008
Image: 'Corn Growing, Minnesota',| Source http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Minnesota-corn-20030826.jpg | Author: Kris (http://www.flickr.com/people/52232708@N00)
Slide 6:
Kingsolver et al, ib id
Slide 7:
Fritz Haeg, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, New York, NY: Metropolis Books (2008): p119
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History in Four Meals, New York, NY: The Penguin Group (2006)
Slide 8:
Environmental Working Group, Farm Subsidy Database, http://farm.ewg.org/farm/region.php?fips=00000
Sam Hurst, "Betting the Farm" in Gourmet Magazine, April 2008, p 90-93, 152