Author Archives: UOG

Top 100 Urban Blogs And Websites On The Web http://blog.feedspot.com/urban_blogs/ Congrats Winners!! 1. URBACT – URBACT is a European exchange...

“Total eclipses of the sun are rare, and Monday’s passage of the moon in front of our mother star is generating a lot of attention. Some 20 million...

“We’ve all been hoping for clear skies, free of cloud cover for the August 21st solar eclipse so we can get a good view of the Moon pass in front...

Shawn Cooney swings open the door of a 320-square-foot industrial shipping container to reveal a futuristic setting: hundreds of edible plants growing...

The corner of Harrison and Halsted streets doesn’t feel very rural, with traffic buzzing by the busy intersection and the Willis Tower looming in the...

“Amanda Gerber never meant for this to happen. But there she was one day last week, dressed in a straw hat, jeans and fancy, dirt-caked cowboy boots,...

“Each Ant Space is an ecosystem. Play with the life inside. The narrow habitat makes the game one of subtle manipulation. Sculpt the scene only...

This retrofitted ex-shipping container in a parking lot in Broadway East is hardly your grandfather’s farm. And in his skinny jeans, black sneakers...

Autumn and Christian are two of the urban gardening volunteers working in northwest Spokane plots for the group Growing Neighbors. They’ve gone to property...

“Shantae Johnson and Arthur Shavers both grew up in Portland and both grew up gardening. Johnson’s great-grandmother grew berries for the J.M....

Dozens of people gathered at an urban garden on Whyte Avenue Sunday to celebrate the grand opening of the Youth Empowerment and Social Services (YESS)...

The all-natural, organic, non-GMO plant based diet — often the butt of a joke among Midwestern tables spread with comfort foods — has taken magazine...

“Chanowk Yisrael runs next door to surprise his neighbors with a bowl of cherries he just harvested with the help of 48 other members of the community....

Los Angeles is offering landowners financial incentives to turn their urban property into green spaces. Unfortunately, nobody has applied yet. The program...

“The fourth annual NoCo Urban Homestead Tour on Saturday allowed visitors to learn more about urban farming and gardening by offering an afternoon...

Efrain Estrada grows so many peppers, eggplants, okra and squash that he sends the extras to his relatives in Puerto Rico. Though Mr. Estrada calls himself...

“After years of working with adolescents who had to be coaxed and cajoled into learning, in this new setting I was surrounded by little children...

Drew Demler is digging in a box of dirt in the middle of Fair Park. He is harvesting potatoes — big, small, misshapen, one that even looks like a snowman...

GREEN BAY – To Kim Fruin, it was the heavy-handed city trying to shut down her garden. To the city of Green Bay, it was a mostly a miscommunication...

An innovative inter-departmental collaboration, Urban AgricultureStat, launched in June with a motion passed by Cincinnati City Council. The goal is to...