The trip to Milwaukee gave us an opportunity to witness and participate in a huge range of activities related to urban agriculture. We spent ten full days around the city, volunteering at urban farms, visiting local markets, interviewing the people behind the city's Good Food
As part of a grant awarded to this project by the Green Builders at Columbia and GSAPP, Columbia University - we'll be off to work with Growing Power and Sweet Water Organics in Milwaukee.
We'll be spending a week in Milwaukee - a city that has become a national center for the development of new agricultural technologies. We plan to visit and document experimental farming practices at the Growing Power institute (run by MacArthur Foundation fellow Will
The aquaponics exhibit at the science barge this weekend went off with great success! The barge was visited by local press, adults and children alike. Tours and public talks accompanied the exhibit to explain the greenhouse technologies being displayed on board
A temporary installation of our Sill-farm prototype will be on display to the public this weekend at the Science Barge in Yonkers.
Part of an exhibit entitled "Life Support" (organized by Janette Kim and Josh Draper), our prototype is among several other aquaponic units designed at Columbia University.
Exhibit: Jun 12 - Jun 13, 99 Dock St, Yonkers NY (Yonkers stop, North Hudson line)
Opening party: Jun 12, noon to 6pm
