Where do you get your food from? For most people, the label displaying the origin of their favorite fruits, vegetables or other produce is likely to come from outside – possibly thousands of kilometers away – the borders of their own home.
But a new trend is growing: the concept of producing your own food, right in the heart of a city. Several cities, from Singapore to Toronto to Tokyo, have created measures to make it easier for food to originate almost exactly where millions of residents live.
Across the world, many cities have taken it upon themselves to produce their own food. Take Tokyo for example, home to the Pasona Urban Farm – where produce is grown inside a downtown office. Stretching across nine storeys and 215,000 square feet, roughly 20 per cent of the building is dedicated to growing more than 200 species of produce from fruits to vegetables and even rice.
To do this, the farm utilizes both hydroponic – growing plants without soil – and soil-based farming, with automatic irrigation and precise climate control. Along the outside of the building, planter balconies act as a means to support seasonal flowering plants and fruit trees. That's not all, though – within the building itself, tomato vines loop above meeting tables, and lobbies are filled with rice paddies and broccoli patches.
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