Getting produce freshly picked is a dream for many restaurant chefs. An urban farm just outside of Sweden’s Gothenburg is making that dream a reality.
These young entrepreneur owners of Kajodlingen urban farm are also fulfilling their own dreams of bringing their countryside farm experience into the city setting.
“It’s a serious thing, it’s an actual thing, it’s an actual job that people can do. If you’re living in the city and you’re interested in growing stuff, you should be able to be a farmer in the city. But it’s also very efficient in many ways, you don’t need diesel to transport things, you don’t need big storage rooms because you deliver every day and stuff like that. People can come and harvest and go home and make their salad. So, it’s very efficient in many ways,” said William Bailey, a city farmer.
They are following the examples set by other successful urban farms, like Brooklyn Grange in New York City.
William Bailey and Jonas Lindh hope to soon sustain themselves from the income of their urban farm, but for now they still work other jobs to help make ends meet.
