January 19, 2016
What if you could grow your own food in the city on a farm that automatically cultivated and harvested the food for you? That’s the vision of the designers of the “living” Urban Farm Pod, a new concept for grow … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: garden technology, urban farming, urban farms
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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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April 15, 2015
You can picture it right? Starting your day by collecting a bounty of fresh eggs, herbs and other edibles, popping over to check on your buzzing bee hive, and then heading out to enjoy your day in the city with … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Garden Design, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening, Raised Beds
Tags: AKER, Easy Bee Hives, gardening kits, Raised Beds, The AKER Project, urban farming, urban gardening, Vertical Gardens, Worm Compost Bin
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June 25, 2014
It’s hard to disagree with the fact that urban rooftops could provide a huge playground for urban farmers. Rooftop gardens do exist of course, but in a city like New York with an endless number of industrial buildings, there could … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Hydroponics, Public Gardens, Rooftop Gardens, Urban Agriculture
Tags: aquaponics, sustainable design, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban farms, urban garden, urban gardens
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March 27, 2014
Oh how dreadful that morning commute can be. Even with the help of podcasts, books, game apps, 16 gigs of music– it can still be a soul draining bore. Good news! Japan may have come up with a cure to … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Lifestyle, Public Gardens, Rooftop Gardens
Tags: Community Gardens, green, rooftop gardening, Rooftop Gardens, urban farming, urban garden, urban gardening, urban gardens
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January 10, 2014
When thinking of the Bronx, the northernmost of New York City’s five boroughs, one might think first of Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, or the New York Botanical Garden. But what about farming?
Up above one of the neighborhood’s residential … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Hydroponics, Raised Beds, Rooftop Gardens, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Bronx rooftop farm, New York City rooftop farm, urban farm, urban farming
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August 5, 2013
Tottenham, a multi-cultural community of north London, will soon experience a growth spurt when it becomes home to the Global Garden, Global Kitchen, a community food hub where produce will be grown, prepared and distributed to locals by … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Composting, Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Herb Gardens, Raised Beds, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Global Garden, Global Kitchen, London, urban farming, urban gardens
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June 1, 2013
Hey apartment and small space dwellers, here’s an easy DIY compact hydroponic indoor farm system you can make with repurposed off-the-shelf IKEA storage boxes.
ELIOOO is not a product, it’s architect and designer Antonio Scarponi’s cleverly conceived and designed instruction … Read More...
Category: Books, Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Creating, Green & Sustainable, Green Gadgets, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, Reclaimed & Recycled, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens, Window Boxes
Tags: Container Gardening, crowdfunded design, Ikea hacking, indoor gardens, organic gardening, planters, sustainable, sustainable agriculture, sustainable design, urban farming, urban garden, vegetable gardening, vegetable gardens
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February 10, 2013
In their largest community project to date, and the first of its kind partnership between a non-profit, a brand and a global crowdfunding platform, the socially conscious underwear company, PACT, has teamed up with the Whole Kids Foundation and the … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: crowdfunded gardens, crowdsourced gardens, garden grants, Indiegogo, organic clothing, PACT apparel, school gardens, sustainable gardening, urban farming, urban gardening, urban gardens, whole fooeds foundation
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