DEC 2022 | AGRIHOOD_BALTIMORE PILOT
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Baltimore’s Harlem Park Agrihood where INNOVATION MEETS URBAN ‘GOLD’... ...repurposing found materials for building urban farm infrastructure to improve fresh food access and food security. SOLUTION Provide access to empower the locals to obtain transferable skills e.g. learn how to grow food, compost, and build low-cost/no-cost structures (raised beds, mini-greenhouses) for self-supporting farm infrastructure. THE OFFERING Self-determined community-based micro-farming collaborative bringing the outdoors to the backyard or front stoops.
DEC 2022 | AGRIHOOD_BALTIMORE PILOT
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- 2. 90% 90% $10 cost $10 cost 0.12 0.12 508-512 N ARLINGTON ST, BALTIMORE, MD PILOT PROJECT Welcome to Baltimore’s Harlem Park Agrihood INNOVATION MEETS URBAN ‘GOLD’... ...repurposing found materials for building urban farm infrastructure to improve fresh food access and food security. SOLUTION Provide access to empower the locals to obtain trans- ferable skills e.g. learn how to grow food, compost, and build low-cost/no-cost structures (raised beds, mini- greenhouses) for self-supporting farm infrastructure. CLIENT Local citiznery of Harlem Park in SOWEBO Opportunities once considered politically impossible are now politically inevitable for marginalized communities. FULLSCREEN HOME
- 3. 3 3 30 30 3.5’ x 10’ 3.5’ x 10’ SITE PLAN & INFRASTRUCTURE Three adjacent 0.04 acre parcels (0.12 acres total) in close proximity to a major thoroughfare (W Franklin St). SCALABLE SOLUTION Repurpose free shipping pallets, and free, reusable building materials to construct mini-greenhouses, community compost bins (to build soil), and raised beds. SERVICE AUDIENCE Low-/Multi-income workers, millenials, veterans, retirees, and curbside community populations. THE OFFERING Self-determined community-based micro-farming collaborative bringing the outdoors to the backyard or front stoops. • Plentiful, Earth-friendly repurposed building materials • Low-No waste • Improve soil quality • Regenerative • Iconic 508-512 N ARLINGTON ST BALTIMORE | SITE PLAN FULLSCREEN HOME
- 4. ~2o,000 ~2o,000 162 lbs 162 lbs 20% 20% 10 10 SERVICE OFFERING Local, pesticide-free, on-site, fresh food production SCALABLE SOLUTION Year round, geographically predisposed food production based on the community’s needs and wants. Growing food that is tuned to adapt and survive the escalating ‘indifference’ and ‘undesireables’ of Mother Nature using biointensive growing techniques (intercropping, square foot gardening, natural pest control, vermicomposting). BUDGET $TBD GOAL Provide ready, fresh food access to the 500th Street Block, N. Arlington, Harlem Park Neighborhood MOTO Everyday brilliance for disaster resilience. that is cultivating the riches of less... 508-512 N ARLINGTON ST BALTIMORE | AGRIHOOD FULLSCREEN HOME
- 5. 508-512 N ARLINGTON ST BALTIMORE | AGRIHOOD LONG-TERM VISION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST IMPACT Food systems have become more brittle. This innovative urban agriculture offering can provide ready access to inner city food deserts, create employment opportuni- ties, fortify food resiliency, improving the health of the citizenry serviced. GOAL Support communities with the Person Prosper Contract using innovation to advance disadvantaged citizenry. PERSON PROSPER CONTRACT 1. Create affordable access for growing food. 2. Provide opportunities to increase income via education and promote local entreprenuership. 3. Promote healthy behavior: • Community service -> increase happiness • Eat locally grown food -> increase health FULLSCREEN HOME
- 7. Kimberly (Kim) King | Disruptive, innovative, agile engineer and urban farmer providing access to locally grown food, and cultivating community... OUT THINK THE BOX | KIMGERLY@OUTTHINKTHEBOX.NET | MOBILE +1 415 832 9084 FULLSCREEN HOME