SEMillas: Sembrando un Ecosistema en Madrid (Seeding an Ecosystem in Madrid)
Erin Johnson (GGFUP, 2015, Location: Madrid)
Erin Johnson spent the summer of 2015 in Madrid, Spain with the group Paisaje Transversal. She conducted on-the-ground research exploring the relationships between the recent and widespread emergence of huertos urbanos (urban agriculture) and other groups that emerged from Spain’s economic crisis in 2008. Through this project, she aims to shed light on the urban social movement spearheaded by these groups, identify trends, analyze various organizational models and motivations, and make comparisons with the broad social activism that has the potential to develop through urban agriculture projects in the US.