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Moveable Feast

I haven’t blogged much about products so far, but I saw the Food Map Container and just had to share. This raised garden on wheels would be ideal for a space where you really want to take advantage of the sun (our pesky planet earth does tend to move around over the course of the growing season), or for one small space that has to do double, triple, etc. duty for multiple programmatic needs (e.g., horticultural therapy one day, a group celebration the next, and a cook-out later in the day), or for easy out-of-sight storage in the winter. It’s not the best raised planter for people in wheelchairs, as you can’t pull up underneath, but one could at least gain easy access from the sides, and two heights are available, one that’s good for kids and people sitting down, and the other for adults who don’t want to crawl around on their hands and knees while they plant, weed, and harvest their dinner. And Jon Wilson, co-founder and chief designer of Food Map Design, has informed me that they will start doing colors in the fall, as well as a tray that attaches underneath the rolling container so you can even move the whole feast inside. I can picture it now, a posh grazing dinner party (fundraiser, of course) with these containers as the centerpiece…