Cascade People’s Center will soon host their first hydroponic garden, set up and maintained by CITYCROPS!
CPC is adjacent to a park and pea-patch, where neighborhood locals grow, in dirt, and lies along a busy path of shoppers, business-people and residents. Our small patch of concrete will serve to inspire all to look at their balconies and roof-tops as ‘fertile’ space. This is goal one. Images documenting progress and plant growth will be added as we go. The project scale will be small - two feet by three feet and stacked two or three trays high.
Equipment will be bought from online sources to get growing asap and gain confidence using these products. Goal number two, however, is to devise a do-it-yourself document for fashioning hydroponic systems from found objects and, more specifically, objects found in any urban slum. Re-envisioning available ‘garbage’ and broken objects as tools for urban agriculture may help change someone’s life for the better. In aggregate, the personal growing of several individuals and families within a slum could supply the product diveristy and bartering tools to change many people’s lives. This DIY system will also be built and documented.
