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Good to China project Tongji Desis Lab China

Farm in a box Eco System: nutritious and sustainable food source for disadvantaged groups

Promoter Local press Includes: Shanghai Daily, weeklies incl. Time out, That’s shanghai, government press, local TV channels

Funder

Acknowledgements NYU Shanghai BioFarm

Context: Nutritious food is often not where it is needed

40% of children in rural China are stunted as a result of maternal and childhood malnutri5on Unicef

Under nutri5on is devasta5ng. It blunts the intellect, saps the produc5vity of everyone it touches and perpetuates poverty Unicef

Taking ac5on on under-‐nutri5on is the single most important, cost-‐effec5ve means of advancing human well-‐being The Copenhagen Consensus

NB: disadvantaged groups can include: orphans in residence, displaced people due to natural or man made disaster, migrant workers.

The project. Design, configure and implement an eco system to provide a nutri5ous and sustainable food source for disadvantaged groups

The system design will explore ways to integrate the immediate community into the process of growing and benefi5ng from a local and organic source of fresh nutri5ous vegetables and provide system tools to support and enable the opera5on and newly formed people interac5ons and rela5onships.

Design an open sourced package for others to implement and to support and enable scalability, innova5on and crea5vity

Providing policy makers with a tool set to roll-out to disadvantaged groups increasing resilience by providing communities with a means to support themselves: Role changing from dependence to independence

Bringing communities out of poverty

Decrease urban rural divide Provide local sustainable 21°

century behaviours

Model changing Bottom up – prototyping solutions

Governance and Policy Making

Activism and Civic Participation

Inclusive Model to create change: Urban + Rural, new community model, influence & reach wide, ability to replicate

Open source

Communication tool set to create awareness and engage wider community

New relationships, actions and network encompassing many levels of society

Closed loop Eco system

Social Interactions and Relations

New relationships, actions and network encompassing many levels of society

Tools to support social interactions

and cohesion

Closed loop Eco system

Social Interactions and Relations

Urban farming : local organic and conscious food sources 21st century urban rural relationships, food revalued.

Disaster and preventative food re-sources

Urban farming

City and Environmental Planning

五月慢Qingcai

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五月慢Qingcai

草头Alfafa

五月慢Qingcai

草头Alfafa

生菜Lettuce

冬瓜Wax gourd

菠菜

JANUARY 一月

FEBRUARY 二月

MARCH 三月

APRIL 四月

MAY 五月

JUNE六月

JULY 七月

AUGUST 八月

SEPTEMBER 九月

OCTOBER 十月

NOVEmbER 十一月

DeCEMBER 十二月

菜花Cauli!ower

菜花Cauli!ower

菜花Cauli!ower

生菜Lettuce

芹菜Celery

芹菜Celery

芹菜Celery

芹菜Celery

芹菜Celery

生菜Lettuce

生菜Lettuce

生菜Lettuce

生菜Lettuce

南瓜Pumpkin

生菜Lettuce

小黄瓜Cucumber

生菜Lettuce

冬瓜Wax gourd

生菜Lettuce

米苋Amaranth

米苋Amaranth

米苋Amaranth

刀豆Swordbean

刀豆Swordbean

刀豆Swordbean

小青菜Little qingcai

小黄瓜Cucumber

小黄瓜Cucumber

小黄瓜Cucumber

小青菜Little qingcai

洋葱Onion

洋葱Onion

洋葱Onion

洋葱Onion

小番茄Cherry tomato








山芋Sweet potato

山芋Sweet potato

山芋Sweet potato

山芋Sweet potato

山芋Sweet potato

山芋Sweet potato

洋葱Onion

南瓜Pumpkin

南瓜Pumpkin

南瓜Pumpkin

豇豆Asparagus bean

紫云英Chinese milk vetch


樱桃萝卜Cherry radish



细葱Shallot

细葱Shallot

细葱Shallot

大头菜Kohlrabi

大头菜Kohlrabi

大头菜Kohlrabi

小白菜Pak choi

小白菜Pak choi

刀豆Swordbean

冬瓜Wax gourd

冬瓜Wax gourd

刀豆Swordbean

菜花Cauli!ower

胡萝卜Carrot

胡萝卜Carrot

胡萝卜Carrot

生菜Lettuce

生菜Lettuce

米苋Amaranth

米苋Amaranth

米苋Amaranth

胡萝卜Carrot

胡萝卜Carrot

胡萝卜Carrot

菜花Cauli!ower

菜花Cauli!ower

annual planting PLAN

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2

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4

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8

9

10

10 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

1 M

plot

WALL 1 墙一

WALL 2 墙二

WA

LL 1

WA

LL 2

Spinach

草头Alfafa

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

洋葱Onion

山芋Sweet potato

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

萝卜Radish


香菜Coriander

紫云英Chinese

milk vetchChinese cabbage

大白菜香菜Coriander


香菜Coriander



萝卜Radish


萝卜Radish


萝卜Radish


萝卜Radish


菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

豇豆Asparagus bean

大头菜Kohlrabi

菠菜Spinach

草头Alfafa

五月慢Qingcai

草头Alfafa

刀豆Swordbean

菜花Cauli!ower




地瓜叶Sweet potato leaf

香菜Coriander

紫云英Chinese



紫云英Chinese



紫云英Chinese



紫云英Chinese


大白菜

空心菜Water spinach











Keep Greenhouse Free of Weeds

Water daily: morning or evening

Open up greenhouse in hot summer months

温室里保持无杂草

每日浇水：早晨或傍晚

在炎热的夏季打开温室

保养维护Maintenance

PARTNERS

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2

3

15 - 20 C 0 - 5 C 0 - 2 C

0 C < 10 C < 10 C

推荐的温度以保护植物

Recommended temperature for Conservation

Everyday

Way to plant Option to plant outdoors

Seedling Sowing Outdoor

种植植物方式户外种植选项

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Add in-house compost & local goat (or other) manure (mix well with soil)

Mix well with soil

允许在地基放养鸡添加自产堆肥及本地山羊（或其他）肥料

Add a thin layer of straw to ground surface and around seedlings

添加薄薄的一层稻草，在地面及苗的周围和土拌匀CONSIDERATION AT CROP ROTATION

1 2 3

轮作时注意事项

拌匀legend & suggestions

五月慢Qingcai

草头Alfafa

五月慢Qingcai

草头Alfafa

五月慢Qingcai

草头Alfafa

五月慢Qingcai

草头Alfafa

Allow chickens on plots

Rotation plan set to grow a balanced nutritious diet to feed the number of people in the community. To be evaluated and adjusted based on system metrics.

As needed – no waste

Local – low footprint

Production, Distribution and Consumption

Skill training is part of the system and evaluative metrics. The success, growth and scalability of the project is nested in skill training

Soft system tools

Infrastructure

Soft System

Skill Training and Design Education

1° Case study

21° century needs: Local organic, safe & secure

food system

Job Creation

Target boundary 2 : extended community : Project success in the rural environment is economic Target kids: learning skills, eating well, enjoying outside life on the farm Target founder and staff: benefits of food, kids learning activities, respect from local community, sharing knowledge with local community Target organisers: others to copy and evolve this model “the story of how to do” and what to avoid or look for ways to do differently Target Press: local environmental impactful ways to support rural urban and marginalized groups

Storytelling and Visualisation

Co-Learning & building

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