COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Mid-Ohio Farm at NBC4 is set to receive an even bigger urban farm to accompany it, located right off West Broad Street.

With views of downtown, the Hilltop Mid-Ohio Food Collective Farm will feature a seven-acre plot of land. The hope is to have it eventually help to change the face of urban farming.

A site like this, we could grow one method and grow massive amounts of food, you know, and be able to put that into the system,” said Nick Davis of Mid-Ohio Food Collective. “The varied types of growing are what’s really important to us, so we may pick a method that showcases the best way to grow in your garage, which may not be the best way for a local urban farmer to grow because they’re doing more high-yield growing … we’re going to showcase all that here at this location as well as obviously grow and give away a lot of food.

The goal, in part, is to look beyond emergency food relief.

“We’re also taking a look towards the long term … We have to say to ourselves that the best way for us to help our community, you know, thrive, move past hunger is to start to teach people better and do in more sustainable ways of growing so they can ultimately, in some cases, feed themselves where it’s possible,” Davis said. “It’s all becoming one cycle for us where we can show where the food is grown, where it comes from, and ultimately put it back into the community.”

The Hilltop Mid-Ohio Food Collective Farm is set to open in December 2023.