Source: ecowatch.com Published: February 16, 2016 Students from the sustainability management program who worked on the New Haven Farms project. Photo credit: Tim Lyons By Columbia University In the Fair Haven section of New Haven, Conn., rates of obesity and diabetes...
Source: gardeningchannel.com Published: January 14, 2016 By Julie Christensen Maybe you’re the type of gardener who loves spending hours in the garden – tilling it in the spring and weeding and watering it through the rest of the summer. Perhaps you have a flexible...
Source: resilience.org Published: January 6, 2016 Picture: fruit walls in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. By Kris De Decker, originally published by Low-Tech Magazine We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 18, 2015 Lorraine Chow A new vegetable factory in Japan will be the world’s first indoor farm without any farmers. Spread, a food technology company focused on sustainable growing, will open its robot-run, 4,800-square-meter...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 12, 2015 by Lori Zimmer A4A Rivolta Savioni studio’s urban garden solution popped up at Expo Gate Milano last month. Easily movable on reused bicycle wheels, the public garden—called ‘Why not in the garden?’—was rolled...
Source: npr.org Published: February 23, 2015 Freight Farms are shipping containers modified to grow stacks of hydroponic plants and vegetables — anywhere, 365 days a year. Courtesy of Freight Farms The United States imports more than $100 billion of food every year...
Source: mnn.com Published: March 17, 2015 The start of Ron Finley’s famed parkway ‘food forest’ in South Los Angeles, 2011. (Photo: LAGreenGrounds/flickr) Once an act of guerrilla gardening, residents can now grow curbside veggie plots without...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: March 10, 2015 The Vertical Harvest farm is a three-story hydroponic greenhouse on a 30 foot by 150 foot plot of land in Jackson, Wyoming. The company is capable of producing more than 37,000 pounds of greens, 4,400 pounds of herbs and...
Source: kickstarter.com Published: March 4, 2015 “A coffee cup that has native seeds embedded within the material to be used for reforestation in your local communities”. Reduce. Reuse. Grow. was founded during a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, landscape architecture senior...
