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Summary of sustainable food production project, Middlesbrough, North East England. More at http://www.dott07.com/go/urbanfarming
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‘Urban Farming’Middlesbrough 2007
Grow Zones
• 61 groups in town are participating• Schools, residents groups, hospitals,
university, Sure Start centres, public parks• They are growing fresh produce in small,
medium and large containers• 235 different-sized containers across town• Food grown staple veg and some exotics
Kitchen playgrounds
• Growers bring harvested food to local kitchen• A chef leads groups in creating, making,
cooking and eating recipes• Information pack and recipe cards being
distributed to other groups in town to run their own ‘playgrounds’
• At least six events across growing season• The project seeks to connect smart chefs with
smart communities
Town meal• Public event for over 1500 people in front of Museum of Modern
Art (MIMA)• Event master planned by artist Bob and Roberta Smith as ‘The
Really Super Market’• Event organised by MIMA and Middlesbrough Council• In a food and art market, local growers and suppliers sell
produce• Local artists present and sell work in response to the question:
“What’s the most important organ, the brain or the stomach?”• Produce from grow zones harvested and cooked on the day to
recipes generated at the Kitchen Playgrounds
Strategic plan• The project is commissioning an ‘opportunity map’ for
food production in the town in the future from architect/planners Andre Viljoen & Katrina Bohn
• This will map existing allotments, containerised growing within the project, vacant land in the town, farming on the perhipery and local restaurants
• The value of this map is to begin to build a food producing and consuming vision for the town and its landscape
• It seeks to enhance the spatial reach and economic value of food to the town and its social, economic and physical landscape
DOTT Festival• Project to be exhibited at DOTT Festival• This is a design exhibition outside Baltic,
Tyneside, beside the Millennium Bridge• Festival runs weeks 2 & 3, October 07• Visitor numbers anticipated at 12,000• Urban farming project exhibited as part of
larger presentation on theme of sustainable living and economy in north east
• The project started in Spring 07 and runs to October 07• Since it started, a waiting list for allotments in the town has
grown from nil to 70• Many schools and neighbourhoods have decided to grow fresh
food themselves, without using DOTT07 containers• The local authority is now considering providing the community
with smaller, permanent allotment sites across the town to continue to grow food beyond the project
• The project has won press coverage locally and nationally and been featured at an international conference on ‘food systems’ in India and on ‘edible cities’ in the Netherlands
• It has featured by worldchanging.com, Blueprint design magazine, The Daily Telegraph and specialist horticultural, regeneration and design press
Project partners to date
• 61 local organisations• One North East• Design Council• Middlesbrough Council• Middlesbrough PCT• BioRegional Quintain• North East Regional
Food Group
• Tees Valley Partnership
• English Partnerships• Groundwork South
Tees• Middlesbrough
Environment City• Stand Together East
Middlesbrough
Dott 07
• Dott 07 (Designs of the time 2007) is a year of community projects, events and exhibitions based in North East England that explore what life in a sustainable region could be like - and how design can help us get there.
• More at http://www.dott07.com
For more details, contact:
David Barrie
Consultant Project Producer
Urban Regeneration Consultant
Media Producer