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Studio Next Conclusions Fall 2009 Megan Braley & Victoria Perez

Integrative Development

Farming Centers will act as central hubs for organizing food production, creating green jobs, building community, and education. Occupying 3-4 adjacent abandoned lots (3/8-1/2 acres), Green Centers have an Office/Storage Area, an on-site Garden, two High Tunnels, and a small Greenhouse for starts.

growlots

Observing Vacant Lots

Gardens &Agri-Programs

Community Members

City Government

JobsBeautification

Develop Vacant Lots

Communication

Research and Interviews

Renting Garden Tools

Finished Compost(soil)

Plant Starters and Seeds

Produce (CSA, Farmer’s Markets,

and Local Businesses)

Salaries/Wages

Equipment/Materials/Tools

Compost System(If there are extra funds)

Startup Capital(1st Year)

Office, greenhouse, high tunnels, garden

Income$340,000

Brochures/Literatureor Education

$10,000

$35,000

$150,000

$145,000

$200,000

$25,000

$35,000

$20,000

$330,000

$20,000

Downpayment$30,000

GrowLots as a Business Model

GrowLots can serve as a tool for prompting discussion on urban agricultural development.

Meeting Mary Corboy• Disconnects between goals of the Greenworks Plan and urban agriculture initiatives.

• Use design skills to create visual narratives that compel city officials to make changes to regulations that are currently holding back the city’s urban agriculture.

Facilitating Meetings

Collaborative Forum Invitation

Dick Voith Senior Vice President and Principal of Econsult Corporation Peter Angelides Vice President and Director of Econsult Corporation

Roxanne Christensen President of the Institute for Innovations in Local Farming

Discussing Economic Development

Consolidating the InformationExcessive amounts of water

Lacking an applicable farming manuel

Seperate Agencies have different needs

Excessive amounts of land

Developing in resistant areas

Farming is not a job

Urban Agriculture coultd be temporary

Selling in niche markets

Urban Agriculture does not make as much money as ...

Niche Markets, City vs Regional Foods

One of many ideas

what happens with the Green Center's success

Lacking man power

Jobs vs Volunteering

Competition between players

There is a disconnection between people and their food

The City as a whole sees the long term without short term goals

what is the shared equity

Urban Agriculture vs Big Business

cost of business would be high

Concetrated workable land

Sometimes social capital is not enough

Creates a garden network

land regulations

Its still about the bottom line

whose responsible for the center

There is not enough people here to farm

Do we need an applicable farming protocol?

Substantial amount of workable landFarming is not a job

Lacking man power

Jobs vs.. Volunteering

Who is responsible for the center?



Niche Markets vs. Regional Foods

Lacking man power

Jobs vs. Volunteering

People are disconnected from their food

Urban Agriculture vs. Big Business

Reaching the bottom line





Lacking man power








Substantial amount of workable land

Develop wasteland communities


Urban Agriculture could be temporary



Lacking man power







What about a shared equity model?








Effects of Farming Center success?

Lacking man power

















Lacking man power



City's long-term goals need small steps



Can we change land zoning codes?




Create a farm network











Lacking man power



City's long-term goals need small steps



Can we change land zoning codes?



Create a farm network


Land OwnershipGreen Jobs

Food AccessEconomics


Discussion Cards

Collaborative Forum

Joan BlausteinDept. of Parksand Recreation

Amanda WagnerDVRPC FoodSystem Planning

Jonas MilderDirector ofMID Program

Mike McAllisterProfessor atUARTs

Hannah SchulmanThe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Alice EdgertonThe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Roxanne ChristensenInstitute for Innovations in Local Farming

The Story of Urban Agriculture









Food Access and Land Ownership

Dialogue Mapping

• Connect people to the resources they need

•Need to streamline departments

•Different amounts of time for land use

•Need clearer steps for land use

•Need for a comprehensive approach with pros and cons

Food Access


• Disconnects between the Greenworks Plan and the people involved.

•Defineaffordable

• Open space limited

• Sustainable Parks, Gathering Places and Collaborative Spaces

•Do not change what you are doingbutfigureouthowtoworktogether

Dissecting the Dialogue

• To Integrate Urban Farming into the community everyone has to be on the same page

•The Community needs to understand as well

•Special time when the Greenworks Plan, Zoning Codes, and the Comphrensive Plan are beginning to collide and change

at the same moment

Land Ownership

• Connect people to the resources they need

•Need to streamline departments

•Different amounts of time for land use

•Need clearer steps for land use

•Need for a comprehensive approach with pros and cons

Food Access


• Disconnects between the Greenworks Plan and the people involved.

•Defineaffordable

• Open space limited

• Sustainable Parks, Gathering Places and Collaborative Spaces

•Do not change what you are doingbutfigureouthowtoworktogether

• To Integrate Urban Farming into the community everyone has to be on the same page

•The Community needs to understand as well

•Special time when the Greenworks Plan, Zoning Codes, and the Comphrensive Plan are beginning to collide and change

at the same moment

Dissecting the DialogueLand

Ownership

Follow-Up Interview: Joan Blaustein

It is not necessarily that people do not want to work together it is more about the fact that a system has not been put in place.

Follow-Up Interview: Richard Voith

The direction of integrative development will help clarify the players that need to be brought together to make sensible decisions for urban agriculture to work in the city.

Next Steps

We are using the information we have gained from this project as a stepping stone into our thesis.

Our thesis will address the needed collaboration between the different stakeholders involved.

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