Growing Up, Growing Food: A Teenage Farmer to Watch

Source: grist.org Published: October 12, 2012 By Darcy Smit Sara Dent Think you don’t regret all those high school afternoons wasted at the mall or the skate park? Just wait till you meet Sophia Vartanian, a Vancouver, B.C.-based urban farmer. At 16 years old, her...

Mexico City’s Rooftop Gardens

Source: mcclatchydc.com Published: October 31, 2012 In a program begun five years ago, Mexico City’s municipal government has given grants to 3,080 families to build gardens on their rooftops, sometimes sheltered by simple greenhouses to protect from nightly mountain...

Fresh Food for All

  Source: onearth.org       Published: September 26, 2012             Local farmers could revolutionize how millions of New Yorkers eat.       Never have so many individuals, nonprofits, and local...

Goats to Trim the Grass

Source: dailymail.co.uk Published: September 15, 2012 By Snejana Farberov A major international airport like Chicago’s O’Hare needs a large staff to take care of everything from security to maintenance, and now the major aviation hub is looking to hire some...