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# Turn Table
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/turn-table/
- Published: 2012-05-25T10:16:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:31.000Z
- Description: Urban planners, environmentalists and foodies alike are increasingly wondering how we'll feed city populations in the future, particularly as they become more concerned about local provenance.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Food & Drink, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Urban planners, environmentalists and foodies alike are increasingly wondering how we'll feed city populations in the future, particularly as they become more concerned about local provenance. A solution could be urban farming, and the repurposing of disused city spaces to grow food that can be distributed to nearby grocery retailers.

The latest example is [Turn Table](http://kaantopoyta.fi/?ref=protein.xyz) in Helsinki, an urban farming project created by environmental organisation [Dodo](http://dodo.org/?ref=protein.xyz) as part of the city's World Design Capital programme. The project has taken over an old railway turning circle and has turned it into a restaurant and farm, where people can eat in a communal space surrounded by beehives, greenhouses and cultivation cribs. The whole thing is also completely vertically integrated: food is not only grown but prepared and consumed within the space. The space will also host workshops and classes that teach local residents about the urban farming – and offer a little food for thought about how we'll grow and distribute in the future.

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