The Farm Proper is a mobile, urban farm under development in the lot behind The Bakery, in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. We at Set & Drift developed The Farm Proper as an experiment in the urban landscape — where design meets the food system. It was created by a collaborative of artists, designers, and backyard growers as an installation to inspire pocket farms and creative takeover of unused urban spaces. We gathered abandoned shopping carts, burlap coffee sacks, and a generous donation of composted soil from Suzie’s Farm and started planting.
The Farm Proper featured on designboom (Milan, Italy): here !
Some of our inspirations:
- ForageSF‘s Underground Farmers’ Market and Wild Food Walks in San Francisco
- An unexpected takeover: freeway-turned-farm in SF
- Fallen Fruit: an LA based artist collective that focuses on food related/foraging projects like this one in Tijuana
- Fire escape gardens in NYC and SYNTHE, a food producing green roof in LA
- The ‘high rise urban farms’ and ‘vertical farming’ concepts floating about in the architecture world
The project considers the idea of designers as the new farmers. Perhaps now’s the time for designers to claim a stake in imagining engaging ways to recreate our food system. We’re putting this experiment out there as a prototype, for “there is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
Join us at The Farm Proper for this season’s seminars and cookouts!