Grow Bags: Urban Allotments

A SOLUTION TO INNER CITY LIVING?
How can we meet the demand for grow-your-own within dense urban areas where available land is scarce?

What-if: projects place GROW BAG installations in Hoxton Square, Store Street and Cheapside to promote the use of vacant, neglected and undefined spaces in the inner city of London for the growing of vegetables.

To see a working inner city allotment initiated by the What-if team in 2007, visit VACANT LOT on Chart Street N1. A formerly inaccessible and run-down plot of housing estate land has been transformed into a beautiful oasis of green. Seventy 1/2 tonne bags of soil have been arranged to form this allotment space. Within their individual plots, local residents are carefully tending a spectacular array of vegetables, salads, fruit and flowers. The VACANT LOT has become a space for growing food, socialising, picnics and BBQs.

A short distance from the VACANT LOT garden you can step into the PLANT ROOM on East Road, N1 to find yourself surrounded by walls of plant pots filled with herbs, vegetables and wild flowers planted in May 2008.

Locations to visit:
VACANT LOT (allotment): Chart Street, N1
GROW BAG installation 1: Hoxton Square, N1
GROW BAG installation 2: Store Street, WC1E
GROW BAG installation 3 (19.07.08 only): Cheapside, EC2V
PLANT ROOM: East Road, N1

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