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"Floating food forest" proposed for New York's waterways

A collective of designers and artists in New York has proposed transforming a shipping barge into a verdant floating farm, with berry bushes, lime trees and swaths of lavender, among many other plants. Called Swale, the project was co-conceived by Mary ...

This Beautiful Floating Food Forest is Coming to New York Soon

There have been such initiatives in the past, like the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle or the Clifton Park Food Forest in Baltimore, what's unique about Swale is that it is built on a barge. Covered over one-tenth of an acre (100 by 30 foot), it will be ...

Edible garden to set sail on New York's East River

The project is called Swale and the garden is being established on an 80-foot by 30-foot floating platform. Serving as an art installation, free food source, and possible peek into the future, Swale's mission is to show the value of community ...

New York's Urban Farm Is Designed To Float On The Hudson River

What if fresh produce was a public service and not an expensive commodity? Artist Mary Mattingly created Swale, a collaborative, public floating food forest that could soon provide free produce to New Yorkers. Built on a 80×30-feet platform, Swale will ...

Bid to create wheelchair-friendly park with £100000 redevelopment

Morton-on-Swale Parish Council hopes to replace the current dilapidated equipment and replace it with a range of play equipment such as a floor trampoline, wheelchair-friendly pathways and a roundabout that can carry wheelchairs and pushchairs.

Get your produce from New York's floating food forest this summer

Scheduled to set sail this summer, Swale New York plans to be a fully-operational food forest growing on an 80-foot by 30-foot barge constructed out of shipping containers. On their website, the group behind Swale, which is funded by a mix ...

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