Comments on: GROW BAGS: Urban Gardening hits London

By: greenspace

greenspace — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:57:28 +0000

It is a good project, but hardly earth shattering. There are plenty of similar schemes like this around the world (grow bags on rooftops in St Petersburg and the use of neglected spaces for food growing in Rosario – but on a city scale) and even in London it already exists: Growing Communities in Hackney (http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/Manuf/growingcommunities.html) has been making use of neglected land for food production for years.
If you go to the organisers’ website, it seems that they are keener to promote themselves and their work rather then really thinking about the community or urban food production. Hence the very theatrical “set design” and the emphasis on visual impact. It screams look at me how great I am.

By: Brunda Ganesh

Brunda Ganesh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:07:09 +0000

all the pictures of all these plants look so green n beautiful…

By: Brunda Ganesh

Brunda Ganesh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:04:12 +0000

nice to see an idea targeting urban ecological as well as social needs.

By: earthsmile

earthsmile — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:45:59 +0000

Great project. Great execution. Tight. Tidy. Impactful… Great, Great, Great ! A model project that can be repeated all over the world. Worthy of the Nobel Prize.