The original source of this post can be found @ foxsanantonio.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jen French) — Beatrice Gatebuke’s roots are actually in Rwanda. She’s a refugee. At the age of 13, she and her parents escaped genocide. “Nothing was familiar,” Gatebuke said. “It’s a brand new environment. We didn’t speak the language; we had to go...
The original source of this post can be found @ collectively.org Get the instructions booklet out and make sure all the pieces of your toolkit are in place. For the age of the flatpack farm has dawned. James Clasper speaks to two green-thumbed urban innovators Forget flatpack furniture. Also forget traditional agriculture. Coming soon to a city near you...
Original post can be found at: VoaNews.com The most precious time of the day for Shari Miles-Cohen is dinnertime, when her family gathers around the table and eats the food she cooked. On a recent day, she prepared a vegetable dish consisting of eggplant, okra, onions and garlic. All these vegetables came from her garden. When her family moved to Washington...
Los Angeles-headquartered From Lot to Spot is true to its name—the organization transforms unused, vacant lots into vibrant spots of green space and parkland. According to founder and executive director Viviana Franco, From Lot to Spot has spearheaded several urban and community garden initiatives throughout Southern California, including several in Riverside. Franco...
Original post can be found at: UnicornRiot On September 19th we met up with Fernanda Hart, the CANDO Sustainability & Food Access organizer, to learn about a project called “Plant Grow Share.” We spent the day biking through the Center neighborhood of South Minneapolis following handmade maps with the safest quickest routes between gardens. We talked to...
Original post can be found at: WebUrbanist.com Powered by solar-paneled roofs overhead, these barge farms feature hydroponic space for produce above and support fish farming below, using extant technologies to offshore vast quantities of food to be grown on the water. Based in Barcelona, Forward Thinking Architecture is pushing its Smart Floating Farms concept...
Original post can be found at: UrbanGardensWeb.com Photo: Paul Rivera for Gensler via USA Today Spreading over 24,000 square feet, JetBlue’s new T5 rooftop urban farm offers a lush lounge where the weary airport commuter can breathe and relax after having endured the stress of endless security lines. The farm gardens in their infancy. Photo: Chelsea...
Original post can be found at: Earth911.com As the cost of fuel continues to rise, more and more people are realizing the importance of supporting local businesses – especially local farms. It’s one of the reasons urban gardening is becoming so popular. Not only is it good karma to keep your money in the local community, but it makes good sense for Mother...
Original post can be found at: NPR.org Homegrown Harvest: Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray tend to Brooklyn’s first window farm. This form of urban agriculture is catching on in cities around the world, as downtown farmers go online to share techniques for growing greens indoors. If you have a green thumb, a window and a serious Do-It-Yourself ethic, you...
Original post can be found at: HuffingtonPost.com When Kate Daughdrill moved to Detroit to go to graduate school, she had no idea she would plant roots there — both literally and figuratively. Her eastside home now exists on a multi-lot farm that has transformed her local neighborhood. “When I bought this house it was in pretty bad shape,” the 30-year-old...
Original post can be found at: Express.co.uk DO YOU want to know the secret to a long and happy life? Vegetables. Not so much the eating of vegetables (though that certainly helps) but the growing of them.According to scientists from Essex and Westminster universities spending half an hour a week on an allotment results in an instant reduction in stress and...
Original post can be found at: Newsweek.com With arable land becoming more and more sparse, and global populations continuing to rise, the only direction to grow our farms is up. Vertical farming has its roots in disaster. In 2011, the tidal wave that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster also destroyed most of the farmland near Sendai, a coastal area in the...
Here’s a fun fact about Halloween you may not know about! “Modern Halloween comes from the Irish festival Samhain, an occasion that marked the passage from the summer harvest season to the dark of winter. Tradition dictated huge bonfires be built in fields, and it was believed that fairy spirits lurked in the shadows. To distract these spirits from settling...
Original post can be found at: www.psfk.com FarmedHere is the largest indoor vertical farm in the United States, with 90,000 square foot space that all follow an eco-, city- and resource-friendly technique. FarmedHere, located in Chicago, raises its plants with a technique called aquaponics. Plants grow without soil, directly in water kept nutrient-rich by fish....
Originally posted on the Food is Free Project, on Facebook. Kale on the streets of London. Welcome to the new normal where #foodisfree Plant a garden and share the harvest. Start a Food is Free Project in your community and start making ripples of change! Check out our PDF guide at http://foodisfreeproject.org/resources for some tips on getting started. Onward! ...
Original post: http://www.alternet.org/food/inside-nations-largest-organic-vertical-farm Chicago isn’t usually known as a farming hub, but did you know that Windy City residents are dining on organic produce such as basil, arugula, kale and microgreens right from their backyard? FarmedHere, a 90,000-square-foot space in Bedford Park that opened in 2013, is not only...
Original article can be found at: “WideOpenCountry.com” If you’re craving your own fresh winter vegetables but don’t have the space for a garden, you’re in luck. Here are a few ways you can create your own vertical garden. You don’t need a lot of space for many winter plants. Though some plants, like broccoli and cauliflower, take a larger...
Original post can be found at: Realtytoday.com Millennials are most likely to garden in urban areas compared older generations, national survey says. Although facing a lot of hardships, millennials seem to be coping with the trials through resourcefulness, creativity, practicality and tightening of the belt. Millennials have been turning the tables from coming up...
Original post can be found at: http://www.fastcoexist.com/ This massive Japanese vegetable factory saves water and energy—along with human labor.When a sprawling new “vegetable factory” opens near Kyoto, Japan in 2017, it will be the first farm with no farmers. Robots will plant lettuce seeds, transplant them, raise the vegetables, and automatically...
