Sowing Seeds, Connecting to Nature

Source: treehugger.com Published: May 3, 2017 © Laura Stoecker for The Nature Conservancy Learn about the advances and setbacks around protecting our oceans, waterways, forests, and wildlife. From golden sand dunes rising along the Lake Michigan shoreline to vibrant...

Urban Farm Hack: Improve Soil with Sheet Mulch

 Source: hobbyfarms.com Published: January 18, 2016 Avoid weeds and build soil with sheet mulch—it’s a heckuva lot easier than weeding the garden! by Lynsey Grosfield There are few places in the natural world—short of deserts, beaches and rocky landscapes—where the...

L.A. City Council Signs Off on Permit-Free Curbside Gardening

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...

These Modular Urban Gardening Growbeds Water Themselves

Source: treehugger.com Published: March 10, 2015 © Noocity Derek Markham If you’d like to get started growing some of your own food, but you don’t have a lot of room or a lot of time, these wicking beds might help you quickly sprout a garden. I’ve...

World’s Tallest Indoor Living Wall Sprouts in Quebec City

Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 4, 2014 Bridgette Meinhold Green Over Grey, who has completed a number of other large vertical garden installations like the one in the Edmonton Airport, was in charge of the design for The Currents. “According to our research,...

The Green Loop

Source: presentarchitecture.com Published: March 6, 2014 New York City produces over 14 Million tons of trash every year with most of it trucked long-haul to out-of-state landfills. In a typical year, it spends more than $300 million dollars on trash transport while...