Excursion to Model Farm during the Annual Meeting in Gothenburg
22nd of September 2020 Field trip “the farming ecosystem of Gothenburg”
A bus trip from urban to rural Gothenburg. We explored how the interplay between public actors, local communities and new entrepreneurs during a longer period of time have re-created a relationship between urban and rural geography and increased local food production. The pilot cases in the Gothenburg Hub of SATURN has been an important piece in this process. The four pilot cases: The testbeds, the Model Farm, the Farming Incubator and the mapping of underutilized and abandoned farmland alongside Road190 together forming an “ecosystem” for lowering thresholds for new farming entrepreneurs, the most important part of a local food system.