10 Tips For Maintaining a Healthy Garden

February 3, 2013

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Photo: home-designing.com

Keeping your garden, even a small one, green and healthy year-round can be hard work for the best of us. Here are ten tips to help you keep your garden green while also making it an easier and Read More...

Farm School NYC Seeds Local Urban Food System

January 29, 2013

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Next generation of urban farmers and food justice leaders.

Within New York City’s approximately 305 square mile radius and amid its vast stretches of concrete and high rises, there is a school without borders whose mission is to cultivate modern-day Read More...

How to Grow an Energy-Saving Living Curtain

January 24, 2013

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Green curtains outside the Arakawa City Hall in Tokyo, Japan.Photo, Bloomberg.

Anticipating rising energy costs after Japan’s nuclear disaster, and inspired by the green curtains on the facades of many municipal and commercial buildings, many Tokyo residents have created DIY Read More...

New Twist on Home Hydroponic Gardening

January 23, 2013

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Honey, I’m home. Is the lettuce ready? This planter is a great concept for producing food in tight urban spaces with minimal effort.

Milan designer Stefania Minnella’s vertical self-sustaining hydroponic system, Elica Idroponica, automates all the tasks busy people … Read More...

Will Detroit Get World’s Largest Urban Farm?

January 19, 2013

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Mike Score, President and spokesperson for Hantz Farms at proposed tree planting site. Photo, Sarah Hewitt, NPR.

Despite heated controversy surrounding the sale of a large parcel of its municipally-controlled land, the Detroit City Council recently approved an entrepreneur’s acquisition Read More...

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