Grocery Getters: The Farm Proper Plants Real Food in Shopping Carts

Urban farms are sprouting in vacant lots and forgotten walls all over the country. But a farm in San Diego, California employs another type of abandoned real estate: The shopping cart. Firms Set & Drift and mi-workshop have used a signature blight on the urban landscape to create a mobile garden
concept called The
Farm Proper in the city's Barrio Logan neighborhood.

Abandoned carts gathered from the neighborhood have been lined with burlap sacks donated by a local coffee retailer and...