The Farming Concrete team is way overdue for an update with our wonderful followers and gardeners – here’s what we’ve been up to in the last two months:
We’ve been exhibiting the results of the study so far at Living Concrete/Carrot City, an urban agriculture exhibit at the New School. Come check us out soon – the exhibit ends next week!
Big thank you to Radhika Subramaniam for coordinating everything and to Nevin Cohen for inviting us to be a part of this incredible public learning experience and for providing us with rare space to talk about community-based research.
Our team has also been busy collecting harvest logs from the autumn growing season. Gardeners are still harvesting winter greens and other hardy crops, so we’re working with each participant individually to set a final deadline for harvest log submission. Look for an update on the Harvest Map soon! We aim to produce a report with the results of 2010 in January.
Last but not least, we had our first Advisory Board meeting to begin planning for 2011. Yes – 2011. Farming Concrete originally set out to create baseline data for food production in 2010 but (who knew?) we might get a few more years of good field data, with which we’ll be able to do more than we ever anticipated.
More on this to come – stay tuned!