Source: modernfarmer.com Published: September 8, 2016 Empress Green, a 4,500-square foot urban farm located at Urby Staten Island, a 900-apartment complex in New York City. Photography All photographs courtesy of Urby Staten Island Andrew Amelinckx Wouldn’t it...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 24, 2016 INFARM’s vertical micro-farm grows fresh greens inside Berlin’s METRO Cash & Carry supermarket. by Cat DiStasio Grocers are in constantly pursuit of ways to connect their customers with the freshest,...
Source: treehugger.com Published: March 22, 2016 CC BY 2.0 David Owen Melissa Breyer Here’s how to use other people’s land for organic garden plots, and get bike-riding farmers to help from harvest to market. Several years ago 27-year old Chris Castro took a...
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: 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: themindunleashed.org Published: September 25, 2014 Featured image credit: Forward Thinking Architecture Get the latest from The Mind Unleashed in your inbox. Sign up right here. Architects from Barcelona, Spain, have designed a system of floating vertical...
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com Published: July 19, 2014 An abandoned Sony factory in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, has been transformed into what could very well be the farm of the future. Shigeharu Shimamura, a plant physiologist and CEO of Mirai, has constructed...
Source: brooklynpaper.com Published: April 8, 2014 Green giant: Developer Forest City Ratner and its Chinese-government partner will build a green roof on top of the Barclays Center that will help muffle noise from big-ticket events. Forest City Ratner By Megan Riesz...
Source: telegraph.co.uk Published: January 31, 2014 Two entrepreneurs Richard Ballard and Steven Dring have set up a 2.5 acre crop farm below the Northern Line, near Clapham North in London. The first test garden, which has been up and running for a few months as part...
Source: earthtechling.com Published: August 15, 2012 Here’s the thing about cities: they’re awesome in many ways, but in other ways they suck. For instance, lots of people living close together usually means access to decent public transportation and smaller, more...
