farm +

2008 SWA Research Fellowship

agricultural hybrid landscapes

site visits

Chateau Villandry Sunol Ag Park Zenger Farm Luscher Farm

Appleton FarmsPS1 Alemany Farm Parc de Belleville

Sandhill Organics Tryon Farm Parc George-Brassens Bordeaux Botanical Garden

"supermarket seizure"

1500 miles

449 acres

449 acres

17% for agriculture

only 1/5th

for growing

& harvesting

national energy use

87 calories of fuel = 1 calorie of food

6-12 cents of every food dollar

subsidies = $14 billion/year

city

country

what is farm+?

what is farm+?

-working farms

-15 to 50 acres

-multiple markets

-public or private lands

project type

farm +

farm +

project type business model

employee

tenant

ag park

service

farm +

project type business model

employee

tenant

ag park

service

Appleton Farms

Ipswich, MA

land owner – non profit

land manager – non profit

model – employee-farmer

markets- CSA

CSA Farm Facts:

est. 2002

25 acres

500 shares

Sandhill Organics

at Prairie Crossing, Greyslake, IL

land owner – developer

land manager – HOA

model – tenant farmer

markets- CSA, farmers' market

Farm Facts:

est. 2004

16/45 acres

280 shares

Sunol Ag Park

Sunol, CA

land owner – public utility

land manager – non profit

model – ag park/multiple tenants

markets- CSA, restaurants,

farmers' market, brokers

Farm Facts:

est. 2005

5 tenants

18 acres

PS 1 "Public Farm"

Queens, NY

Chateau Villandry

Tours, France

farm +agricultural hybrid landscapes

2008 all rights reserved Ellen Burke

farm +agricultural hybrid landscapes

Cedits and Sources

Slide 3:

Image: 'Supermarket Seizure', Chris Brennan, reused with permission

Slide 4:

B. Kingsolver, S. Hopp and C. Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food, New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers (2007): p5

USAgNet, "Report: Farms, Land in Decline. Average Size Increases", (02.04.2008), http://www.usagnet.com/story-national.php?Id=275&yr=2008

Image: 'Corn Growing, Minnesota',| Source http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Minnesota-corn-20030826.jpg | Author: Kris (http://www.flickr.com/people/52232708@N00)

Slide 6:

Kingsolver et al, ib id

Slide 7:

Fritz Haeg, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, New York, NY: Metropolis Books (2008): p119

Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History in Four Meals, New York, NY: The Penguin Group (2006)

Slide 8:

Environmental Working Group, Farm Subsidy Database, http://farm.ewg.org/farm/region.php?fips=00000

Sam Hurst, "Betting the Farm" in Gourmet Magazine, April 2008, p 90-93, 152