Project Goals

Garden Parti is an ongoing student project through Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm, Sweden.

We recognize that food security, social inequity, and the ongoing climate crisis are linked. Our goal is to connect people across different social groups through small-scale, distributed urban food production—a crucial component of what the Gates Foundation calls the Green Revolution 2.0.

People living in cities must grow, process, and distribute more of the food than they consume. Industrial agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to anthropogenic climate change. For our societies to survive, we must stop further CO2 emissions and quickly transition to regenerative systems. Updating our agricultural land use is part of this transition. And nobody should go hungry. Cities can use times of relative prosperity to feed more people, especially those who are poor or unhoused. By reinforcing food systems against extreme weather events, supply chain disruptions, drought, plant diseases, social unrest, topsoil degradation, and other problems, cities have a better chance of caring for all citizens and equally preserving all ways of life.

We hope to increase social cohesion and food security, as well as individual health and joy, by creating a platform for sharing surplus growing space, food, and skills.

This project is currently in its early design phase. We hope to launch a testable prototype in Portland, Oregon, by 2024.

Email sfoxworth (at) gmail (dot) com to learn more.