People Plants Planning

It has come to my attention that my thesis should focus around the efficient sharing of resources. If our global society becomes environmentally conscience there is a chance that the economic value of ecosystem services will be become included in the prices of our goods and services. For those already on hard times the drastic increase in prices would result in multiple crises such as food, fuel, water, as well as other very basic necessities.

Although I would like to try to tackle all of these issues, solutions for a potential food crises are among the easiest to envision. By tracing three or more local food gardens and talking to the people who have planted the food, the "urban farmers" and the people who have inherited their gardens as they have moved away, I seek to develop a rough sketch of the people who are ahead of the curve in their mentality and discuss with them how easy it would be for people everywhere to start developing their own gardens.

The idea is not to create a private farm for an individual but to maximize efficiency in land use, and community development. People getting involved in the community which harbors their plants, and then creating an impact on planning for the future, by spreading the community like a kudzu that is resistant to our major food producing systems and its inherent problems.

For research I'm going to interview at least 3 urban farmers, 1 real farmer on a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in Tennessee, and present some data that shows the flaws of the major commercial food industry, and factory farming.