The Organic Food Garden at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton California is an 1,110 square foot garden designed in 2007-8 as part of the landscape for the new Michael J. Homer Science and Student Life Center. The food garden is so successful that it has been expanded to include an additional 9,000 square feet in… Read more »

EllenBurke

Posted by
in Urban Agriculture
on

Be the first to comment

Share this post
Facebook
Twitter

The nationwide movement to include agriculture as a landscape amenity in some suburbs makes edible gardening the ‘new golf’ according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. Joe Runco, of SWA Group, offers his insights into planning for edibles in the suburban context. Read the full article here.

EllenBurke

Posted by
in Urban Agriculture
on

Be the first to comment

Share this post
Facebook
Twitter

Two pro-bono projects at a local urban farm support community food-security efforts and explore farm ecology and aesthetics. The Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) Urban Farm sits on one-acre of a former Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA. Closed in 1993, portions of the military base have been converted to other uses, including the Alameda Point… Read more »

EllenBurke

Posted by
in Urban Agriculture
on

Be the first to comment

Share this post
Facebook
Twitter

While agriculture seems to be trendier than ever before, the US is still losing 2 acres of farmland to development every minute. Some estimate that by 2050 we’ll have only .6 acres of farmland per person, even though our current diets require 2.6 acres. SWA is an advocate for the integration and inclusion of food-producing… Read more »

JoeRunco

Posted by
in Urban Agriculture
on

Be the first to comment

Share this post
Facebook
Twitter

Opportunities abound for engineering encounters between guests and their food in the landscape – a breakfast orangerie where fruit is freshly plucked for juice, courtyard gardens planted in orchards of nuts and fruits, herbal lawns at the spa, a poolside planted with date palms. Many hotels are integrating local and on-site food production in a… Read more »

EllenBurke

Posted by
in Arts and Culture, Urban Agriculture
on

Be the first to comment

Share this post
Facebook
Twitter

The 2008 SWA Fellowship project urban agriculture – Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes – has been published in a collection of essays entitled ‘On Farming’. The volume of essays, curated by Charles Waldheim and Fritz Haeg, address ways that agriculture and architecture intesect across a spectrum from purely speculative to documenting built projects. Published by… Read more »

EllenBurke

Posted by
in Urban Agriculture
on

Be the first to comment

Share this post
Facebook
Twitter