The Blueprints

Agriculture as a whole must be judged by criteria quite detached from present day cash: A criteria that has to do with Morality & Justice and with a bedrock biology; with matters not of personal wealth and the Mirage of “economic growth” but of survival.

We need, in short, to get serious. We need to recognise that agriculture is not just a way of making money, like sports cars and hairdressing. It is what we need to do to stay alive & to keep the world habitable. So, if we were to maximise biological efficiency what should we be growing, and how and where, and who should be growing it?

Rational & Design

The answer to this, New Native Agriculture. An urban farming company based in Pretoria South Africa aiming to create an urban agricultural ecosystem by rehabilitating disused rooftops, buildings, and dead pockets within the city. New Native Agriculture is about feeding people and improving the environments ridden by poverty.

The New Native Agricultural code of practice emphasises maximising biological efficiency, put more straightforwardly means producing as much high-quality food as possible per hectare, by means that are minimally destructive. Effectively transforming spaces that were previously avoided and barren into popular spaces that attract new feet into the city.