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Center for Urban Agriculture(2007) - conceptual design of an off-grid 318-unit multi family building that is energy and water self-sufficient by utilizing on site greenhouses, rooftop gardens, a chicken farm, and areas for growing vegetables and grains. The design exercise won "Best of Show", lauded as "most visionary" in the Cascadia Region ...
Two women tending plants at Marra Farm. Marra Farm, a 4-acre (1.6 ha) plot of land in Marra-Desimone Park, South Park, Seattle, Washington is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle city limits that retains an agricultural use today; the other is Picardo Farm. [1] [2]
Seattle Parks Foundation. "Urban Farming in Rainier Beach" (PDF). Connections. Seattle Parks Foundation; Sudermann, Hannelore. "The Roots of Tilth". Washington State Magazine. Washington State University; Sullivan, Daniel (January 27, 2005). "Time for Change". The New Farm. Rodale Institute
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Urban farmers who follow sustainable agricultural methods can not only help to build local food system infrastructure, but can also contribute to improving local air, and water and soil quality. [127] Urban farming serves as one type of green space in urban areas, it has a positive impact on the air quality in the surrounding area.
Picardo Farm is a 98,000 sq ft (9,100 m 2) parcel of property in Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington, consisting largely of 281 plots used for gardening allotments. [1] It is the original P-Patch (the local term for such community gardens): the "P" originally stood for "Picardo", after the family who owned it. [ 2 ]
Of those, over 32% were found in the Northeast, more than 26% in the South, 22% in the West, and less than 19% in the Midwest. The survey found that most urban farms in the United States are structured as either non-profit or solely owned. Urban farms typically use techniques that allow them to produce intensively on a small land.
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