Grow food in underground tunnels, they say. IT'll be good for you and the environment, they say.
If Dallas’ Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability has its way, there will soon be vegetation growing along the walls of downtown’s underground pedestrian tunnels. That’s not the only unusual place food might be grown under the proposed Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan. Vacant strip malls, empty big box stores and silos are also in the mix for future sustainability efforts.
Under the the plan, food can be grown inside as well as outside at one of the city’s urban farms. As is the case with many local government initiatives, building awareness, increasing a network and garnering buy-in from the City Council is very much needed. But to be clear, more urban farming is needed in Dallas for this plan to work, not smaller-scale urban gardening. Often, people tend to think about the nonprofit community gardens they see around town when they hear someone talking about urban agriculture, but Alvarez says Dallas farms such as Bonton Farms, Restorative Farms and Dallas Half Acre Farm are what they would like to see more of.
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