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The Pastoral Practice in Urban Life

Why Introducing the Concept of a Pastoral City?

With extreme weather, depletion of energy and a surge in population, the international
community has begun to develop new sources of food production. Residents in international
cosmopolitan cities such as London, Paris, Vancouver, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Boston,
Tokyo, and even Beijing, began some policies as edible landscapes. They wanted to establish a
pastoral city, and reshape their city into a sustainable ecological one. Taipei is no exception. The
avocation of such policy in Taipei is also in the hope to “Make Taipei City a pastoral city of
green health, education and life”. Under the urban ecological framework, this can extend and
complement the green space system and enhance ecological function in a city.

From the first phase of the promotion period from 2015 to 2016, where the municipal
government led the establishment of demonstration sites, to the second phase where the
government and the private organizations cooperated with each other. The government helped
to find idle public spared land, then the community or private organizations applied for
adoption for setting up the pastoral garden base, or, the community offered to build the base in
the community open space and continued to promote the practice. In the future, the policy will
continue to promote self-sufficient and sustainable management of the pastoral garden base.

What Is the Pastoral City Policy?

In order to create a new paradigm for urban farming, the Taipei City Government has
integrated the strengths from all bureaus to promote the implementation of the pastoral city
policy in Taipei. With implementing the three strategies of “Establish a pastoral bank, establish
agricultural technical guidance and manage the pastoral base”, and allowing people to do it
themselves in growing and harvesting produce, experiencing the pleasure of being farmers by
participating and operating the base, people could experience the sweat through producing the
crops and therefore change the way they look their food, then understand the precious of land
and water resources and the importance of organic farming for maintaining environmental
sustainability.

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