Greener cities: urban farming and urban gardens
Urban farming and urban gardens are getting more and more known nowadays. More people with the aim of occupying unused land in the city such as rooftops, walls, planters and sidewalk cafes but they occupy it by planting gardens or even small farms. Maybe it is becoming more known and more institutions are taking part on these programs due to the economic crisis but what it is sure is that it is spreading throughout the world and it is giving a greener look to the cities.
The first example we find is in San Francisco, CA. It has recently passed a law that gives permission to use any land in the city for agricultural used and to create urban gardens. A progressive urban agriculture law that we hope it will influence more states and they create the same law.
In New York there are some urban farming in the rooftops, an alternative to use this unused space in the city. Check the video about Rooftop Farming in New York.
But not only in America we can find these green examples, we know, for example that the greatest green rooftop can be found in Warsaw:. In Paris, the Charte Main Verte is an initiative of the same kind to place communal gardens in the city. Also, similar initiatives are taking part in the main capitals in Europe by creating urban gardens or urban farms. Some of them serve not only to raise awareness of health and wellbeing as well as creating a different space in the city, but also, some urban farms are used to create food for poor people. Such is the mission, for example of the Urban Farming that had started in 2005 and now they have planted the equivalent of over 3,800 community and residential gardens.
Thus, we hope the way we see cities can change and that this trend is spread more.
