Urban farming in Tokyo: toward an urban-rural hybrid city

Urban Farm DB summary

This account of Tokyo urban farming contrasts Brooklyn Grange, a roughly 1-hectare rooftop farm in New York that produced 23 tons of organic produce in 2014, with Taiken Noen ('hands-on farming') in Tokyo's Nerima ward, where urban residents cultivate vegetables under instruction from local farmers on about 1,300 plots across 12 farms covering roughly 5 hectares combined, a practice the text describes as continuing to grow in popularity.