“I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land…to know how to nourish themselves…and to know how to connect with the community around them.”——-Alice Waters——-
   
The transformative potential of this sizeable organic farm on the neighborhood and extended community is far reaching and hard to quantify. Benefits to the community will come in form of better health and education, economic and entrepreneurial opportunities and in the more intangible form of hope for a better future for this highly underserved community.

Los Angeles, representing so many of the unsustainable economic, social and environmental pitfalls of 20th century urbanism will be the starting ground of IBU’s bottom-up investigation and implementations.
The first project (LA1) is to transform a 30-acre vacant parcel adjacent to downtown Los Angeles into the IBU headquarters, housing the IBU think tank, the educational facilities and the nation’s largest inner city organic farm, promoting multiple aspects of bionomic urbanism and a consciousness for sustainability within the local and extended community.
The urban farm will serve as part of the hands-on educational facility and allow us to bring healthy organic food to the inner city, and to bring the inner city communities to the farm, establishing a direct connection between food and source.