Urban Farming
Urban Farming Guys Transforming Crime-Ridden Missouri City into Sustainable Paradise
In one of the most dangerous places in the US, Lykins neighborhood, Kansas City, where people can’t sell their homes because people are too afraid to live there, the Urban Farming Guys have been hard at work building a sustainable, thriving community from the inside out. After researching and writing articles on Urban Agriculture, we…
Read MoreIncredible Food Forest has Over 150 Types of Fruits and Vegetables on 1/4 Acre of Land
Longtime gardener and permaculture educator Dr. Bob Randall has a created a food forest, just outside his front door, that produces 90% of the food he consumes. In a world where the front and back yards of the majority of homes are being used to grow inedible grass, wasting gas, fertilizer, and the time it…
Read MoreTop 10 Most Amazing Vertical Farms in the World
If you run out of space horizontally, then grow your food vertically. That’s what these 10 vertical farms from across the world are doing. An estimated 80% of the earth’s population will live in cities by the year 2050, and to meet the increasing demand for food, urban vertical farms are sprouting up around the…
Read MoreEdible Bus Stop turns London Transit Routes into Community Gardens
Originating as a guerilla garden project near a bus stop in London, England, The Edible Bus Stop beautifies neglected landscapes around bus stops by converting them into community gardens. In an interview with The Guardian, the group’s founder Mark Gilchrist revealed that when a small strip of land was offered for sale, a group of…
Read MoreSan Francisco Mom’s Itty Bitty Farm Grows Vegetables, Chickens and Goats
Tired of the confusing and misleading labels on food in the supermarket? San Francisco mom Heidi Kooy started her own backyard farm, growing a variety of organic vegetables, and raising chickens and goats for their nourishing eggs and dairy. Learning as they went along, Heidi and her daughter began with a 350 square foot garden…
Read MoreUrban Beekeeping: How to Start Your Own Honeybee Hive
Many plants produce nectar to encourage insects like bees, wasps, and butterflies to visit their flowers and pollinate them. In this symbiotic relationship, bees use the nectar they gather from flowers to make honey for food, and in the process, pollinate flowers with tiny pollen granules that dust off their hind legs. Many of the…
Read MoreCanadian Urban Farmer Grows 50,000lbs of Food on Less than 1 Acre of Land
“What if I told you that there was a way you could live off the land, farm commercially, be a direct solution to food security, economic inequality, and environmental degradation, build community ties and social capital, and make a living out of it?”, says urban farmer Curtis Stone, CEO of Green City Acres. Green City…
Read MoreGotham Greens: America’s First Commercial Rooftop Greenhouse Farm On Whole Foods Store
A neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, is now benefiting from a revolutionary partnership in urban agriculture — a 20,000-square-foot rooftop greenhouse built on a Whole Foods supermarket. The partnering farmers are from a company called Gotham Greens, and together they are growing high-quality, pesticide-free produce year-round for their customers. Gotham Greens says the new facility…
Read MoreFood Grown on Rooftops in Montreal, Canada Feeds Thousands of People
In 2011, a company from Montreal, Quebec, Canada grew their very first vegetables from the world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse. Today, they feed 2,000 people with fresh vegetables harvested locally, and on the exact same day. For most people rooftops are an ignored space, but not for CEO Mohamed Hage. He created Lufa Farms with…
Read MoreThere Is A Huge Underground Farm Hiding 100 Feet Beneath London’s Streets
It’s hard to find enough space for urban farms to grow enough local produce to feed a big city. Unless you put the whole farm below in an abandoned tunnel. The newest branch line of the London Underground doesn’t go anywhere. But it does produce a lot of nice food to eat. It’s a hydroponic…
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