"Dig where you are"

Approx 1/4 of a soccer field, 2,000 square meters is the space each of us would end up with if the earth’s arable land was divided among the global population. In reality, many of us require lots more land to meet the need of our annual food consumption: Swedes use on average double that space, 4,000 square meters per person, and Americans roughly 8,000 square meters per head. This was the starting point of Take Care of Your Square and the 2,000m2 experiment, based on Arthur Granstedt’s research - an associate professor in Ecological Agriculture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), The experiment launched at Rosendal’s Garden in Stockholm in 2019 and aims to prove that one person can live well if feeding him- or herself on what is produced on only 2,000m2. By practicing ecological recycling agriculture, the experiment provides an unconventional, instructive and down-to-earth way of fighting climate change, health problems, and inequalities in the food system, both locally and globally.

The Take Care of Square movement has gained interest and collaborations all over the world. Including an exclusive invitation from Farm-to-table Masterchef Dan Barber’s Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture as well as the headline act at the seminar: Visions of Paradise: Feeding the World at the prestigious Cornell University in april of 2019. In the spring of 2020 the initiative was also chosen as a Rockefeller Foundation semi-finalist and the Food systems Vision Prize, with highest remarks in areas as System-Focused, Transformative Potential, Community-informed and Inspiring.

"Dig where you are"

Approx 1/4 of a soccer field, 2,000 square meters is the space each of us would end up with if the earth’s arable land was divided among the global population. In reality, many of us require lots more land to meet the need of our annual food consumption: Swedes use on average double that space, 4,000 square meters per person, and Americans roughly 8,000 square meters per head. This was the starting point of Take Care of Your Square and the 2,000m2 experiment, based on Arthur Granstedt’s research - an associate professor in Ecological Agriculture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), The experiment launched at Rosendal’s Garden in Stockholm in 2019 and aims to prove that one person can live well if feeding him- or herself on what is produced on only 2,000m2. By practicing ecological recycling agriculture, the experiment provides an unconventional, instructive and down-to-earth way of fighting climate change, health problems, and inequalities in the food system, both locally and globally.

The Take Care of Square movement has gained interest and collaborations all over the world. Including an exclusive invitation from Farm-to-table Masterchef Dan Barber’s Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture as well as the headline act at the seminar: Visions of Paradise: Feeding the World at the prestigious Cornell University in april of 2019. In the spring of 2020 the initiative was also chosen as a Rockefeller Foundation semi-finalist and the Food systems Vision Prize, with highest remarks in areas as System-Focused, Transformative Potential, Community-informed and Inspiring.

"Dig where you are"

Approx 1/4 of a soccer field, 2,000 square meters is the space each of us would end up with if the earth’s arable land was divided among the global population. In reality, many of us require lots more land to meet the need of our annual food consumption: Swedes use on average double that space, 4,000 square meters per person, and Americans roughly 8,000 square meters per head. This was the starting point of Take Care of Your Square and the 2,000m2 experiment, based on Arthur Granstedt’s research - an associate professor in Ecological Agriculture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), The experiment launched at Rosendal’s Garden in Stockholm in 2019 and aims to prove that one person can live well if feeding him- or herself on what is produced on only 2,000m2. By practicing ecological recycling agriculture, the experiment provides an unconventional, instructive and down-to-earth way of fighting climate change, health problems, and inequalities in the food system, both locally and globally.

The Take Care of Square movement has gained interest and collaborations all over the world. Including an exclusive invitation from Farm-to-table Masterchef Dan Barber’s Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture as well as the headline act at the seminar: Visions of Paradise: Feeding the World at the prestigious Cornell University in april of 2019. In the spring of 2020 the initiative was also chosen as a Rockefeller Foundation semi-finalist and the Food systems Vision Prize, with highest remarks in areas as System-Focused, Transformative Potential, Community-informed and Inspiring.

"Dig where you are"

Approx 1/4 of a soccer field, 2,000 square meters is the space each of us would end up with if the earth’s arable land was divided among the global population. In reality, many of us require lots more land to meet the need of our annual food consumption: Swedes use on average double that space, 4,000 square meters per person, and Americans roughly 8,000 square meters per head. This was the starting point of Take Care of Your Square and the 2,000m2 experiment, based on Arthur Granstedt’s research - an associate professor in Ecological Agriculture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), The experiment launched at Rosendal’s Garden in Stockholm in 2019 and aims to prove that one person can live well if feeding him- or herself on what is produced on only 2,000m2. By practicing ecological recycling agriculture, the experiment provides an unconventional, instructive and down-to-earth way of fighting climate change, health problems, and inequalities in the food system, both locally and globally.

The Take Care of Square movement has gained interest and collaborations all over the world. Including an exclusive invitation from Farm-to-table Masterchef Dan Barber’s Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture as well as the headline act at the seminar: Visions of Paradise: Feeding the World at the prestigious Cornell University in april of 2019. In the spring of 2020 the initiative was also chosen as a Rockefeller Foundation semi-finalist and the Food systems Vision Prize, with highest remarks in areas as System-Focused, Transformative Potential, Community-informed and Inspiring.

"Dig where you are"

Approx 1/4 of a soccer field, 2,000 square meters is the space each of us would end up with if the earth’s arable land was divided among the global population. In reality, many of us require lots more land to meet the need of our annual food consumption: Swedes use on average double that space, 4,000 square meters per person, and Americans roughly 8,000 square meters per head. This was the starting point of Take Care of Your Square and the 2,000m2 experiment, based on Arthur Granstedt’s research - an associate professor in Ecological Agriculture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), The experiment launched at Rosendal’s Garden in Stockholm in 2019 and aims to prove that one person can live well if feeding him- or herself on what is produced on only 2,000m2. By practicing ecological recycling agriculture, the experiment provides an unconventional, instructive and down-to-earth way of fighting climate change, health problems, and inequalities in the food system, both locally and globally.

The Take Care of Square movement has gained interest and collaborations all over the world. Including an exclusive invitation from Farm-to-table Masterchef Dan Barber’s Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture as well as the headline act at the seminar: Visions of Paradise: Feeding the World at the prestigious Cornell University in april of 2019. In the spring of 2020 the initiative was also chosen as a Rockefeller Foundation semi-finalist and the Food systems Vision Prize, with highest remarks in areas as System-Focused, Transformative Potential, Community-informed and Inspiring.