Go look at the review of the Dutch art exhibit, “Edible City,” on we-make-money-not-art.com.

From event curator Deborah Solomon’s blog, Culiblog:
“The exhibition is about the urban environment and its food systems. There was a time when city-dwellers could more or less provide for their own elimentary requirements. The entire production, distribution, consumption and recycling of food took place primarily in the city and its immediate surroundings. But since the Industrial Revolution, the chain of food ”˜from field to fork' has greatly increased in length.

“The Edible City presents a diverse range of proposals and strategies to produce food in or near the city and that offer the opportunity to experience the city in a different way. As befits the subject, much of the exhibition is itself edible.”

There are an amazing range of projects designed to bring sustainablity back to the city at the exhibit in the Netherlands. The Kitchen of Terrestrial Mechanics (herbs growing in planters catch the water runoff from drying dishes) and Edible Estates (replacing wasteful front lawns with vegetable gardens) are two examples.