Micro Farming, Cow Tunnels & Clay pot electricity

Inspired by the talk that Kenn gave at the Experimental Station. I have been thinking about our current disconnected relationship to the food we consume. What are the ways we can shift the access and distance we have to food through insurgent micro-farming, without the product invariably only catering for an elite community. Like this example; a clever reinvention of London's old WWII bomb shelters turned into vertical salad farming beds, that now serve locally produced, hydroponic greens to high end grocery stores.

I have also been trawling through the amazing blog http://www.ediblegeography.com/cow-tunnels/ where Nicola Twilley, researches our contemporary relationship to food and land, its uses and absues. She discovered that before the invention of refrigerated train cars, cows were transported into New York city through an underground tunnel. She offers that with increasing local backyard farming, maybe these tunnels could be reopened for use for a more ecologically responsible access to meat.

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I have also been researching some DIY methods that NGO's and aid workers use in very rural parts of the globe, to create low-impact, affordable access to tools. I am interested in projects that can merge both traditional culture with modern inventions for sustained use. In this video link, you can see how a simple converter can be used to generate low impact, very affordable electricity through combining a traditional way of making clay pots.
https://www.facebook.com/bbcworldservice/videos/1122146571137801/