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*http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/28/paris-rid-streets-cars-one-day The Guardian] | *[http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/28/paris-rid-streets-cars-one-day The Guardian] | ||
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*[http://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/pick-free-produce-from-a-public-floating-forest-this-summer-041416 Time Out NY] | *[http://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/pick-free-produce-from-a-public-floating-forest-this-summer-041416 Time Out NY] | ||
*[http://ny.curbed.com/2016/3/24/11299500/hudson-river-floating-garden-under-construction Curbed] | *[http://ny.curbed.com/2016/3/24/11299500/hudson-river-floating-garden-under-construction Curbed] | ||
Revision as of 19:39, 5 August 2016
Background
Swale is a floating food forest launching in Summer 2016 in New York. The project is spearheaded by Mary Mattingly, the visionary behind such projects as the Waterpod, Flock House, and WetLand. This project includes many of the same designers from the previous projects and, in addition, has new team members, a designer, and contributors. Projected interactive environmental art is coordinated by BiomeArts. The barge measures 130ft x 40ft.
Mission
What if healthy, fresh food could be a free public service, and not just an expensive commodity? That’s the question we really want to ask with Swale. Swale, a collaborative floating food project, is dedicated to rethinking and challenging New York City's connection to our environment. Built on a 110-foot by 30-foot floating platform, Swale contains an edible forest garden. Functioning as both a sculpture and a tool, Swale provides free healthy food at the intersection of public art and service. With Swale, we want to reinforce water as a commons, and work towards fresh food as a commons too.
Projects
The projects on board will be open source so that they can be recreated. They will include:
- Photovoltaics
- Urban agriculture
- Food forests
- Edible landscaping
- Water pumps
- Open source
- Art
- Raspberry pi
- Integrated Pest Management
- Slow sand filtration
- More
Plants
The focus will be on local plants and plants that can adapt to the possibly harsher environment... and of course - their deliciousness! The plan is to grow:
- TREES
- Italian Alder, Pawpaw, Asian Persimmon, North Red
- SHRUBS
- Saskstoon, Northline serviceberry, gooseberries, huckleberry, rosemary, low bush blueberry
- CLUMPS
- Lovage, anise hyssop, sweet cicely, salad burnet, Egyptian onion, scallions, French sorrel, profusion sorrel, mitsuba, Borage, wild leek, Dandelion, Chives, Garlic chives, Buck's Horn Plantain, Sylvetta Arugula, Perpetual Swiss Chard, Miners Lettuce, sea beets, radicchio, nagoon berry, oregano, Kurrat leek, Roman chamomile, wild ginger, Good King Henry-Chenopodium bonus-henricus, lemon balm
- RUNNER
- asparagus, stampede Jerusalem artichoke, edible daylily, giant Solomon's seal, watercress, strawberries, dragon's blood, white clover, red clover, ramps, sea kale, Adam's yucca, yarrow, ostrich fern
- VINE
- Groundnut, Chinese mountain yam, scarlet runner bean
- MAT
- Raspberry ground cover, thyme, purslane, camass,
- TUBER
- Conopodium majus, skirret
- SELF SEEDING ANNUALS
- Red mustard, chard, wild arugula, wild garden chicory-cichorium, lambsquater-Chenopodium giganteum, western front kale, amaranth, cherry tomatoes, Ttmatillos,
- ANNUALS
- Basil, arugula, mizuna, bok choy
- ENDIVES
- Cilantro, kale, and more.
Press
There has been lots of great press. As this is an outreach and inspiration project, the more press the better!
- Huffington Post
- Vice
- The Guardian
- Smithsonian
- Time Out NY
- Curbed
- Inhabitat
- TreeHugger
- Tech Insider
- Business Insider
- DNA Info
- Take Part Daily, May 29, 2016
- BBC News
- The Fill
- The Guardian
- Dezeen
- Global Construction Review
- NDTV
- Metro France
- PSFK
- Radio New Zealand
- Die Welt
- News Buzzers
- Green Building Spain
- Huffington Post Germany
- The Atlantic's CityLab
- Hyperallergic
- Smithsonian
- Brooklyn Based
- Time Out NY
- Curbed
- Working Forest
- Tech Insider
- Pop Up City
- Inhabitat
- Untapped Cities
- Archpaper
- Ecowatch
- Treehugger
- Business Insider
- The Inertia
- DNA Info