Chicago has many strengths and weaknesses. It has a young culture with trendy beliefs yet fails to tackle some critical elements directly related to its habitat [https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1714000-chicago-il/]. While working in Chicago for a few months, I noticed a stark difference in how trash is disposed of. Most buildings do not have recycling bins and instead, opt for a single general trash bin. However, I also noticed that locals and businesses like to build a purpose for their actions by believing in bettering themselves and the environment. As a result, we developed a proposal to improve the management of food waste through the local production of food in urban farms.

A food desert is an urban area with minimal access to healthy, nutritious food. In our project, area coverage is dependent on the type and size of food source. The food sources we work with here are grocery stores, produce carts, farmer's markets, and urban farms. In recent years, the city has been making efforts to improve the city's food desert problem by encouraging the building of supermarkets and farmers' markets. This effort has shown improvements but has reached a limit as the increase in markets doesn't help people of low income [https://news.uchicago.edu/story/food-deserts-dont-benefit-more-supermarkets-chicago-study-finds]. That being the case, we chose to focus on urban farms, which allow residents to actively interact with the community while providing a space to grow instead of buy food. To do so, we combine demographic and spatial data to form the basis of our GIS analysis.

Where are food deserts located? Where can we add urban farms? How will the farms affect the distribution of food deserts? How will the farms affect the generation of waste?