Farms From Digital Factories to Digital Gardens
How can we apply digital technologies to agriculture without perpetuating the ecological and social impacts of industrialisation?
By Louisa Prause
CCCblab
Feb 10 2026
Excerpt:
Rather than the future, it is the past that I believe can show us one way forward. Drawing inspiration from a talk by the historian Kate Brown that I heard in 2025 in Barcelona on her then upcoming book Tiny Gardens Everywhere, I imagine the food production of the future not as digital factory farms but as digital gardens. Brown shows how working-class people who got pushed off their farms in the 19th century and ended up in cities like Berlin or London started to farm land and grow food on the city outskirts, recreating a form of commons.
What might sound like a predecessor to today’s middle-class urban gardening hobby was, as Brown shows, the most productive agriculture in recorded history. In an interview on her most important findings, she states: “In Paris circa 1900, 5,000 urban farmers grew fruits and vegetables and fresh produce for two million Parisians with a surplus left over to sell to London. (…) There was no comparison to the Green Revolution fields of the 1970s. These urban gardeners were producing far more per acre, with no petroleum-based fertilisers.”
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/farms-from-digital-factories-to-digital-gardens/
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