As a dedicated lazy-bones, I think that the best thing about the Truck Farm is that, to make it, you don’t have to lug garden supplies back home. You just drive over to the store and load up on, say, topsoil, and you’re done.
The mobile allotment was built by “four-wheeled-farmers” Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, two Brooklynites with no garden, but a 1986 Dodge Ram with an empty load-bed. It uses technology proven in roof gardens, with custom drainage by rainwater management company Alive Structures, and even the soil itself is a special, gas-friendly lightweight hybrid, mixing up styrofoam, gels, clay and organic matter.
What’s the point? The Truck Farm is a business, and works a lot like the vegetable box schemes found around the world. You pay a monthly fee and the Truck Farm will pay a visit to your home, where you can pick produce fresh out of the dirt. The guys have even made a series of short movies (see part one, below) showing the history and making of Truck Farm, complete with their own music.
Project Page [Wicked Delicate via Inhabitat]
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