In This Small Town In Amsterdam, Every Resident Devotes 50% Of The Land To Growing Food

In This Small Town In Amsterdam, Every Resident Devotes 50% Of The Land To Growing Food

In This Small Town In Amsterdam, Every Resident Devotes 50% Of The Land To Growing Food East of Amsterdam in the city of Almere, a living experiment is taking place in the Dutch suburb of Oosterwold.  The hidden gem is the Netherlands’ newest city, and its 5,000 inhabitants enjoy the fruits of living in a green, self-sufficient community. They can build their homes however they like, with one stipulation: half of their land must be devoted to growing food.  “This rule … is very unique thinking in the world, and makes it also an outstanding area in many ways,” Jan Eelco Jansma, a Dutch researcher who campaigned for urban agriculture in Oosterwold’s design, told The Guardian. Image via Tara Schepers and Yolanda Sikking/Almere municipality Oosterwold resident Marco de Kat has an 800-square-meter plot teeming with apples, pears, peppers, basil, beets, and cauliflower, but he says no two houses in the community are the same. Everyone has a different take on the 50% rule, from greenhouses and pa…