Map of the Auroville Urban Farming project
Have you walked behind the Town Hall
lately? You might be surprised by what you see. Nestled in that dense urban
area, surrounded on all sides by buildings, you can find young banana plants,
bountiful bougainvillea, creepers climbing up the walls of Citadines, a robust
vegetable garden, and a drip irrigation system supplying water to young fruit
trees. The team behind this work say that it’s part of a movement to green the
city and to ‘grow people’. And there is no better place to launch the Auroville
Urban Farming (City Centre) initiative than the city’s administrative centre.
One year ago, Canadian researchers
came to Auroville and conducted an assessment of the “greenness” of the city.
Their perimeters for “green” expanded beyond tree or plant cover to include the
human element, such as inter-cultural and inter-generational activities open to
all. They determined that the area around Town Hall was the greenest area of
the c...
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