Revolution in Concrete Jungles By Building Nutritious Green Farms

An idea was formulated to provide a technologically advanced, sustainable system that will supply fresh food and equalize the unfair distribution of food production.

FREMONT, CA: Obviously, some regions have a surplus of food production, while some face starvation. The urban food hub is a key for addressing the varying concentration of food, balancing out the crucial resources for basic sustenance. The system comprises four important integrated components— preparation, production, distribution, and closing the loop with waste and water management. Each of the four components produces and provides opportunities for business development, training, and improved resilience. Business development is enhanced through high-intensity food production in urban areas in spaces like green roofs, raised bed gardens, and plant factories. Values are added to the food preparation sector from locally grown food and improve public health. Innovative food delivery models will widen access to high-quality, affordable food via farmers' markets, food trucks, and community-engaged agriculture. Waste management is practiced sustainably through advanced composting systems, reduced stormwater run-off, and green infrastructure improvements.

Entrepreneurs are given training and technical help to execute their business plans. These concepts for startups range from a health-focused business that increases nutrient yield offers health assessment and nutrition counseling. It also incorporates growing microgreens and herbs for star restaurants, ethnic crop production for authentic menu-based restaurants and grocery stores, and native plant seedlings grown for urban parks and rain gardens.

The urban food hubs model will concentrate on forming a network of interconnected local systems. It will improve food security, job provisions, overall nutritional health, and resilience in urban neighborhoods that have a deficiency in all aspects of healthy food. The food hubs in urban areas are empowered by best-in-the-field technology and are hence competitive in an environment of concentrated land-use pressure. Some tangible gains of these urban food hubs include reducing food-related illnesses and structured stormwater management. Some less concrete advantages include enhanced neighborhood aesthetics, stronger civic-body engagement, and neighborhood safety. In addition, the urban food hubs can build the capacity and the infrastructure for improved access to safe food, quality health, and economic development in underserved communities.

As urbanization progresses worldwide, food and water security issues cannot be dealt with without solutions that include urban communities — reimagining the urbanized tech hubs as an all-inclusive form of a sustainable food system near to the majority of consumers who live-in metropolitan cities.