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News Thu Aug 19 2010
Farms in the Sky
Everyone's got verticality on the brain. Agriculturally speaking, that is. Vertical farming, a method of food production in urban high-rise spaces, is cropping up (ha!) everywhere these days.
The Chicago Reader's thinking about the reinvention of the former Peer Foods meat processing plant on the city's south side. The Chicago Tourism Center is exhibiting City Is a Community Garden, a collection of photographs, installations and drawings that depict vertical farming, city gardens, and urban chicken keeprs. And the Chicago Cultural Center's hosting a presentation by Dickson Despommier, a Columbia University prof who is credited with developing the very concept of vertical farming.
