WHAT: The xClinic’s Farmacy is a distributed urban farm designed to improve environmental health, augment biodiversity, and produce delicious edibles. Any railing, double-hung window or parapet can host an AgBag, creating arable land out of thin air.
HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE: It is Farmacy’s ambition to develop a community of urban farmers (ufarmers). More details about how you can support our efforts, distribute our delectable produce or join the ufarmers community, coming soon.
News and Updates:
“‘Farmacy’ artwork has the Rx for poor diet” - July 14, 2011
July 13, 2011: Featured in downtown express, click picture to go to article.
Famacy clinical trial at Postmasters gallery - June 22, 2011
The artist/engineer/activist/experimenter extraordinaire, Natalie Jeremijenko, will turn Postmasters’ façade green. She will conduct a clinical trial of xClinic’s Farmacy, a distributed urban farm aimed at encouraging urban food production, diversifying food systems and improving environmental health. The vertical garden will … Continue reading →
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FARMACY is a distributed urban farming system that is designed to improve environmental health and augment biodiversity in addition to producing edibles. This system is optimized for (yummy) urban foods (ufoods), i.e. new foods appropriate for the challenging urban context. Farmacy addresses the issue of little or no access to soil, little or no space, compromised air and water quality among other challenges--and for improving air and water quality, and quality of life for humans and non-human organisms alike, that is, towards robust resilient and healthy BiodiverCITY
The Farmacy, is a radical systems design approach to urban food production, and is not food to compete with rural agricultural products, nor just the distributional advantage. The uFoods are curated and cultivated for their extremely high nutrition value (including the colorful alpha-carotenes, polyphenols and micronutrients that equip an urban body cope with the assault of urban pollutants). We've also selected foods and developed food products that have high commercial value, and are non-distributable and highly perishable (our black pansies need to be eaten within a couple of hrs of harvesting for instance).
The Farmacy delivers air quality improvements by maximizing the leaf area index (using plants with high shoot to root ratio/ and at scale cld remove 1/2 the deadly particulates ). This is the only tried and true method for massive airquality improvements; and we incorporate novel local urban waste streams in soil production. But the Farmacy system gets its scalability and power from the resource that is renewable and plentiful, and in fact it defines urban contexts: people, and their urbanfarms, or ufarms. People who may never have farmed can install become active ufarmers, using their window or a railing as a "growcery" and reaping the benefits of tending and cultivating, and coordinated into a farm exchange. We have a novel distribution strategy combining Feral Trade (trading thru social networks) and "Commuter Food".
