Horticouture: Where Garden, Food, and Fashion Merge

August 9, 2012

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Japanese artist, Takaya, fashions vegetables and fruits into edible headgear.

Fashion trends have always had an influence on other industries, including culinary, interior design, and even gardening. Growing food is inexorably linked to cooking and its presentation a reflection of … Read More...

Pocket Size Herb Seed Kit

August 3, 2012

Except for the dirt, this pocket-size herb kit from Brooklyn studio and shop, Plant, includes everything you need to grow a variety of herbs outdoors or indoors in any container, even a coffee cup. You don’t need a garden Read More...

Three Cool Inventions For a Greener World

August 2, 2012

This summer has been one of the warmest on record in the northern hemisphere. 97% of Greenland’s surface ice thawed in an historical four days. Maybe it’s time to take a look at the grass roots of the green world … Read More...

General Motors and Partners Create Detroit Urban Garden Using Repurposed Shipping Crates


GM’s metal shipping crates were repurposed into raised beds. Photo: John F. Martin for General Motors

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. The lot was abandoned. Then General Motors contributed 250 metal shipping crates that used to Read More...

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