The Nourishment Network

The Nourishment Network is an approach to providing fresh, organic food in urban environments. The project aims to address issues of food security, food autonomy, community development, and public health with a process that doesn’t cost too much time or money for farmers and consumers. Urban agriculture is most efficient on a small scale, but the needs of urban areas make small scale farming an insufficient means of producing the necessary amount of food. The Nourishment Network is an ecosystem of small scale indoor farms, linked by a web platform that enables individuals to order fresh produce being grown in their own city.

By distributing the network across an urban area, it becomes possible to select locations citywide that have the optimal conditions for growing indoors (like sunlight exposure, average indoor temperatures, controlled environments), and this enables local residents, businesses, schools, and governmental organizations to generate revenue from otherwise unused space within their facilities. The web platform handles all aspects of the transaction, enables people to select their food to be fresh-harvested that day, and tracks data trends in order to continually reevaluate our crop selections and make sure people have access to the kind of food they want to eat. By creating a dynamic network for food production, an essential component in any ecosystem, we can turn urban environments into living cities that nourish and support those who make their home there.