What if.. the land not only feeds the city.. but the city feeds the land.
If you take you got to give. To keep the agricultural soil healthy compost is needed. What if the city could provide for that?
Human manure could close the complete circular nutrient loop in Amsterdam. A relationship where the land provides food for the cities and the citizens provide the compost needed to grow the food. In 'Uprooting Agro-Systems’ Bram explore’s a reality where newly developed neighbourhoods in the Waterland, Amsterdam-Noord, are equipped with a decentralized sewer system that collects human manure to turn into valuable compost that is brought to the surrounding farms. Yet another step closer to self-sufficiency.