October 29, 2015
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 … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: JetBlue, Rooftop Farm, urban farms
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October 22, 2015
Photo: Steve Heikkila
When some good friends of theirs organized a camping trip for 13 people at a private campsite at Cape Arago on the Oregon coast, Meadowlark partners Jen Datka and Emily Park knew instantly it would be the … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: glamping, local ingredients, mobile supper club, Oregon, Oregon coast, PDX, Portland, Portland Supper Club, supper club
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October 20, 2015
Photo:© Kool Cats Photography, via Flickr.
Some say that there are two types of gardener: the true gardener and the tidy gardener. The true gardener has the time, patience and knowledge to care for a garden on a long-term … Read More...
Category: Creating
Tags: Easy Gardens, gardening, Oatmeal Grasses
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October 18, 2015
Mirai urban plant factory. Via Mirai.
What claims to be the world’s largest indoor vertical farm will soon begin production in Newark, New Jersey. Once it is fully operating, the 69,000-square-foot AeroFarms headquarters is slated produce up to 2 million … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Greening, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
Tags: urban farming, urban farms, Vertical Farms
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The following article by Robin Plaskoff Horton and reposted from Fix.com:
Both casual cooks and celebrity chefs flock to their local farmers markets to avail themselves of the freshest locally grown produce straight from the farm. In addition to … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Lifestyle
Tags: American farmers markets, buying local, farmer's markets, farmers markets buying guide, fresh local food, guide to farmers markets, local farmers, local food, locavore, usa farmers markets
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October 12, 2015
Can you imagine jump starting your morning with a fresh cuppa Joe and a guerrilla gardening seed kit?
For Starbucks, designer Freddie Jordan envisioned the SeedPod, a conceptual guerrilla gardening kit that would promote the coffee chain’s sustainable policy. The … Read More...
Category: Green & Sustainable, Greening, Guerilla Gardening!
Tags: guerrilla gardening, SeedPods, Sustainability Efforts
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