Food Matrix is a quick-reference guide for the small-scale producer. At a glance compare energy input/output ratios, average yields, water or land requirements. Plan for the seasons with typical farming cycles and practices. A fast and convenient method to contrast the benefits or disadvantages of many common crops and livestock.
Craig England is a Toronto-based designer interested in the development of sustainable food systems for urban/peri-urban areas.
On Farming - Contents
BRACKET [on farming]
BLDG 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance
Cloud Skippers
Farm Plus: Hybrid Agricultural Landscapes
Project::Farm
Chia Mesa
Butter in the Mail: Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
AGER-AGRI
What We Are Is What We Eat
Farm Logic
Nomadic Allotments: London’s Farming Future
Post-Agricultural Speculations
Aquaculture Seascape Park
GEOtube: Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System
On Farming
Learning from Salinas (Hopefully)
HydroLoops: Mechanization and the Command Prompt
Harvesting Space
Landgrab City
Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism
The Catalog: From Ploughs to Clouds
Your Town Tomorrow
Line 13 – Superlinearity
Hydrating Luanda
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes [EELLs]
Vertical Farming in Las Vegas? Beyond Pragmatism, Toward Desire
Factory-Farmed Architecture: You Are How You Eat
Reforestation of Greenwood Farm: An Emergent Landscape and Intervention
Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes
Recycling Takes Command
Microcosmic Aquaculture
Living Tower: A Vertical Horse Stable for Luxor
Precipitating a Productive Countryside: A Renewed Company Town Model
The Building That Farms…
Seasoned Pasture: A Demonstration Range and Public Park
Farming [PARK]: Rail, Roadways, and Urban Form Today
Fructus Vegetabilis: Growing Profit in the War on Error
45°50’8”N 119°41’57”W: Hybrid-Poplar Farm
Performative Landscapes
The Productive Surface
Beyond Disney
Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Migrational Fields: Farming and the Chinese Urban Village
Globalgaelisation