Urban Micro-Farm

The project, which began at the end of 2021, involves developing a new concept of urban micro-farming, described as permaculture and community-based with and for local residents. The participation of the inhabitants is a key success of community building.
The micro-farm is an entity whose complexity must reflect the complexity of the socio-economic environment in which it is immersed. In our case, the micro-farm must achieve needs for a population with low income. Consequently, the micro-farm combines both agricultural and social activities according to a symbiotic relationship. In other words, agricultural activities feed off social activities and vice versa.

Implementing the farm involves a series of phases, logically beginning with the immersive phase. This not only enables the researchers to identify the needs of the local population, but also to create the climate of trust necessary for the project to be taken on board by and for the local population. The next phases are the farm's ramp-up, moving from mock-up to prototyping to validate the proof-of-concept, and then the implementation of the micro-farm in the neighbourhood, based on the assumption that its use will lead to the creation of daughter entities that will consolidate each other to amplify territorial resilience. The following figure symbolises the rise of the micro-farm through its agricultural and social activities, while reducing urban socio-economic pressure.

The structure of the micro-farm is presented bellow.