Mission

  • Mission
    • Develop urban farming systems that cultivate resource sovereignty for urban and suburban communities, prioritizing the needs of marginalized communities.
  • Structure
    • Worker and Community Owned Cooperative, oriented toward maximizing community ownership, community resources and community wealth, while minimizing hierarchal relationships and wage disparity.
  • Vision
    • Urban cityscapes filled with food and beauty.  When you walk down a city street, growing food will be the primary feature (not parked cars).  Dreaming of 50% of a neighborhood’s food consumption to be grown within a city neighborhood.
  • Goals
    • Reconnect people to their food production.
    • Nutrient Sovereignty and near Zero Extraction.  More than 95% of the nutrients that are needed to grow all food for an urban population already exist within the city from waste streams.  Food waste, landscaping waste and human waste, contain all the nutrients needed to grow food.  There is no need to extract resources from distant lands.
    • Food Visibility. Increase the visibility of food in our daily lives.
      Today, the only places we see food are inside stores. This is not natural, but is a result of centralized industrial food production. People drive far to go to farmers markets, because it feels good to be in outdoor places where food is visible.  We want to reclaim food as a natural and ubiquitous part of our environment.
    • Decentralize and Localize food production.
      Industrialization of food, turning food into a mass-produced product, demanded centralization of food production. Food like most products are not produced anywhere near where they are consumed and consumers are disconnected from the labor and environment that produces the food. Therefore the labor and environment are often exploited.  We want to bring food production right in the neighborhood where it is consumed.  When it is integrated in people’s daily lives they will be invested stewards of the work force and the environment.
    • Food Security. Making optimal nutrition immediately accessible to everyone.  Imagine, herbs, kale, lettuce and other veggies being available right outside your front door.  Currently the most accessible food is junk food at the corner mart.  When the most accessible food becomes fresh produce, people’s food choices will shift dramatically and will substantially improve their health.
    • Community and Connection.  When food is grown adjacent to where we live, we become stewards of that resource.
    • Food Knowledge.  We return to a society where most folks know how to grow food because it is integrated in our daily lives.
    • Creating meaningful ways of making a living.  We’re creating employment opportunities within our community, that cultivate whole individuals and their connection to their community and environment.