Embrace the urban jungle! Discover the transformative power of urban gardening and how it's reshaping concrete cityscapes into lush, vibrant greenspaces.
Farming is a great way to get closer to nature and better understand how food and other forms of plant life are sourced. Personal farming can help a person save money, eat healthier, and stay active, while a business farm can turn into a profitable endeavor when connected to the right target market.
Positive Detroit is a unique news blog, focusing on the positive and optimistic stories that are frequently overlooked by traditional media; offering a user-friendly community-based environment for Detroit Area residents to interact, engage, and rediscover the love and pride within our own backyard.
Want to know what is a subsistence farming? Find out if you have the characteristics of subsistence farming on your homestead.
In a soulful, honest documentary directed by Michael Tyburski and produced by Group Theory, the story of Brooklyn Grange’s most recent foray into urban
Agriculture: Growing crops in vertical farms in the heart of cities is said to be a greener way to produce food. But the idea is still unproven
A closer look at how community gardens and urban farms are transforming American cities.
I keep this book in my hands when I want to be inspired by other urban farming projects around the world. What? Urban farming? The term describes gardening in the city and a young movement that inspires city dwellers to experience a new closeness to nature and our food. Whether vegetable gardens high above the roofs or community gardens on urban wastelands: City Gardens introduces the new gardens and the people who look after them. The book makes you want to get your hands dirty - whether on your own balcony, in the community garden or when founding a green start-up. For me it shows the perfect mix of seeds and concrete... and thus the often still unexpected breeding ground for a greener, healthier and more sustainable life in the city. Authors: design & Valery Rizzo Valery Rizzo is an American portrait, food and lifestyle photographer whose work explores urban agriculture. Her images have appeared in The New York Times Style Magazine, Yes! Magazine, Télérama, D La Repubblica and Der Spiegel appeared. Publication: April 2021 Format: 18 × 23.5cm Features: Full color, hardcover, thread-bound, 256 pages, printed in Germany on FSC™️ (Forest Stewardship Council™️) certified Origin: Germany
Growing with Aeroponics, Aquaponics, and Hydroponics Fundamentals of Soilless Agricultural Systems The Gold Label Growers Guide to Controlle...
With two live-in chefs and countless inter-connected food and waste systems, the Future Food System's Greenhouse may very well be a blueprint for how we'll live in the future.
It’s 2024 and everyone loves the idea of homesteading. And what’s more natural than a beautiful homesteading design that incorporates houseplants that can benefit your home year-round! Houseplants offer much more than aesthetically pleasing greenery. They are essential elements in homesteading designs, providing a host of benefits that enhance your off-grid lifestyle. From improving indoor … Create a Off-Grid Oasis in 2024: Houseplants as Essential Elements in Homesteading Designs Read More »
Joyner started the Conetoe Family Life Center, as the farm is now called, over a decade ago.
Real-life stories show how one can create a profitable business through permaculture design and practice.
Up close and personal with one of America's most fascinating farmers.
Discover the steps to initiate your own community garden. Learn how to start and cultivate a thriving communal green space .
Of a warehouse in Greenpoint, which is now covered with 200,000 pounds of soil, 1,000 earthworms, and an abundance of vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
Learn about our new homestead, why we decided to adopt this lifestyle, and our plans for the future.
GMO’s Will Never Feed the World, But Here’s Something That Will is an exploration of solutions to the hunger crisis the world is facing using permaculture.
Students at Renaissance High School get first-hand field experience with professionals to gain valuable knowledge of job opportunities available in the agricultural industry.
Farm schools are springing up all around the globe for aspiring farmers from non-traditional backgrounds. Here we profile four: in Ireland, Massachusetts, California and Japan.
Urban Farming boomt. In Städten wie Paris, London, Berlin, Zürich und auch Wien treten die urbanen Landwirtschaften in der Stadt in unterschiedlichsten Erscheinungsformen auf. Da gibt es Gärten auf Brachflächen, die in erster Linie der Produktion regionaler Lebensmittel dienen, oder Gemeinschaftsgärten, in denen das soziale Miteinander ganz wichtig ist oder Grünflächen, auf denen Kinder spielerisch […]
Pickens (who I knew from our time together attending Ohio University) meets regularly with the restaurant's chef and the farm's founder Sisha OrtÁºzar to
Everyone needs food, but it's more than just fuel. Food shapes cultures, connects communities, and brings joy. Today's food system faces challenges:
Our property is the result of a much longed for home. We were living in Melbourne for some years (me working for Cultivating Community and Anton working for the Alternative Technology Assoc.) and
Who says you can’t grow garden-fresh foods in the city? Thousands of urban gardeners are growing their own food in Chicago – many for the first time – in more than 650 community garden plots scatt…
Equally challenging as conceptualizing public place-making areas from scratch or perhaps more so are the urban regeneration projects that seek to develop existing parcels of land in cities that have dilapidated over time....
Sustainability programs in prisons can benefit the environment, society and incarcerated people alike.
What is a CSA? Is a CSA worth it? Here are the "ins and outs" about CSAs, based on my personal experience, plus how you can find a local CSA to join for your own family. A must read before committing!
A small but growing movement of millennials are seeking out a more agrarian life but the reality of life on the land is not always as simple as they hoped
It’s impossible to ignore the affect that those on the political stage have on us...an affect aggravated by the relentless bombardment of social media speculati
With AB 551, landowners will be able to enter into contracts with the city.
If we're serious about tackling the sustainability challenges that cities face, the urban bucolic vision is going to have to mean more than hipster vegetables.
The vegetable plots are the most visible sign of an amazing plan: to make Todmorden (resident Estelle Brown is pictured) the first town in the country that is self-sufficient in food.
