On a jetty jutting into the River Thames, they’ve founded Farmopolis, a space to explore how this could work. The project forms the beginnings of a social, technological, and agricultural prototype for urban farming. By Johanna Derry VICE Oct 3, 2016 Excerpt: Farmopolis is a project that’s been several years in the making and is still in its early days. Ring is a landscape architect and founder of Wayward, the practice behind projects like the…
An experimental farm on the river Thames is changing the way city-dwellers eat
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