Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: April 18, 2017 Sarah van Gelder, Contributor Boarded-up business districts. Abandoned warehouses. Barns and homes covered by tarps slowly collapsing into the earth. It was startling how often this scene repeated as I drove through...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: March 25, 2017 By Alexander C. Kaufman and Joseph Erbentraut The startup Square Roots is training the next generation of urban farmers in a Bed-Stuy parking lot. BROOKLYN, New York ― Tobias Peggs is already cultivating leafy...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 6, 2017 by Jennifer Lauren Near Jay Z’s childhood home and an old Pfizer factory, you will find a set of ten steel shipping containers. Inside those seemingly innocuous containers lies a lush urban farm. Launched by Tobias...
Source: theatlantic.com Published: December 17, 2016 Emily Anne Epstein and Alan Taylor This photo essay by photographer Preston Gannaway focuses on inner-city agriculture programs. Here’s what’s behind the essay, in her words: Today, about a third of West Oakland...
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...
