Urban Fruit

Los Angeles is a city, which was built on farming. In the 1920 there were citrus groves as far as you could see. There was even a marketing campaign by the Los Angeles Chamber of commerce directed to farmers from the midwest, to come to Los Angeles to farm... read more After the second world war the boosters and real estate developpers went in a different direction and the raising prices and changing zoning laws pushed agriculture to the peripherie. Nowadays farms are so removed from the everyday experience of city dwellers, that the average North American city dweller has no idea where his/her food comes from. That it grows in the dirt and doesn‘t come from a super market. But things are changing and lot of people want to take matters in their own hands again. They stopped trusting the industrial food complex.

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