Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts) Wed May 14, 2014, 08:38 PM May 2014

Interesting idea: mobile gardens in discarded shopping carts...

More photos and info at link. For whatever it's worth.

http://setanddrift.org/projects/projects-past/the-farm-proper/

Established: January 2010

Location: THE BAKERY, Barrio Logan,
San Diego, California

The Farm Proper is a mobile, urban farm under development in the lot behind THE BAKERY, the Set & Drift and mi-workshop collaborative studio space in Barrio Logan.

The Farm Proper is an experimental project created by a collaborative of artists, designers, and backyard growers to inspire urban cultivation and pocket farms. Using abandoned/defunct shopping carts as our medium, we have designed a scenario to take over a temporarily available industrial lot to provide the community with organically grown food.

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Interesting idea: mobile gardens in discarded shopping carts... (Original Post) Flaxbee May 2014 OP

cool idea! Oscarmonster13 May 2014 #1

I like the idea, but where do you get discarded shopping carts? Curmudgeoness May 2014 #2

Oscarmonster13

(209 posts)

1. cool idea!

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Wed May 14, 2014, 08:56 PM

May 2014

I wish luck to them and also wish there were more of these groups ... too bad they usually end up running aground because most people who are creative like this aren't very good at the biz side of non profits, etc...

Curmudgeoness

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2. I like the idea, but where do you get discarded shopping carts?

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Thu May 15, 2014, 05:57 PM

May 2014

From what I have seen, they never get rid of them.

I wonder how much watering they would take, since they are so open and would probably dry out quicker. But since I grow in pots, I can't imagine that this is worse.

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