Well, baloney is more of a real meat substance than whatever is used to concoct a whopper. This sign was spotted outside of at least five Memphis area Burger King locations. Sounds like someone needs a refresher on how CAFO’s operate?
Food
Eat your architecture
Land planning and architecture have spent the past two centuries divorcing urban society from their food supply. The zoned separation of uses is quite possibly the biggest planning blunder in the history of the field. Quite understandably, people of the nineteenth century did not want to live around belching smokestacks and other heavy industry – […]
The Dill Pickle Opens In Logan Square
Slated to open late this summer, Chicago will welcome its first food coop. While Chicago’s summer farmers’ markets are great, the Dill Pickle Coop will house community supported farming on a daily basis. Like most coop’s around the country Dill Pickle, located in Logan Square, will be a member-owned food store specializing in real, local, […]
Dill Pickle Food Co-op
The plans for the Dill Pickle Food Co-op in Logan Square have been submitted to the Department of Buildings for permits. If all goes well we expect to be under construction in July and occupied in late summer, just in time for harvest season! See some of our concept renderings after the jump. The new […]
Filter Cafe
Filter Cafe is getting a new space, and we are designing it. The Wicker Park stalwart coffeehouse was displaced by BofA from the Flatiron building at six corners. The project is on pace for LEED-CI, certified level! Filter Cafe update: We will be wrapping up construction drawings in the next two weeks, after which we will submit to […]
Replace that lawn with a native plant urban farm
Our native, mostly perennial, urban permaculture farm is entering its second growing season! The farm started as a patch of dirt in the sideyard of are office and was transformed into an edible landscape. The ‘bed’ was raised with strawbales from a farm in Warrenville, Illinois and filled with a soil mix from Buy-the-Yard in […]
The food triangle: farmer, supplier and consumer
Another piece of the design world that needs better exploration is the food system. Outside influences have contributed to the dereliction of our food delivery system, probably best explained here and here. However, how to fix that system is oft described as a repair of the metaphorical link between people and their food. My common […]