edible city

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an urban planning and community development concept in which edible plants — fruit trees, vegetable gardens, herb beds, berry bushes — are systematically integrated into public and semi-public spaces throughout a city, transforming parks, streets, school grounds, hospital gardens, and neglected verges into a distributed food landscape accessible to all residents; the edible city model was pioneered by the Incredible Edible movement founded in Todmorden, England in 2008, which transformed a small post-industrial town into a showcase of public food growing that attracted international visitors and inspired similar projects in hundreds of cities worldwide; edible city projects combine food production with urban greening, community building, environmental education, and the symbolic reclamation of public space for shared rather than commercial purposes; they challenge the conventional separation of food production from urban life