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An Urban Farmer in Your Kitchen

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:47:14 +0000

Toyota is designing green roof technology and now Huyandai is getting into the urban agriculture act: Nano Garden, by Hyundai Engineering & Construction and Gromo, is a hydroponic vegetable garden for the urban apartment kitchen.

Silver winner of the Fast Company Idea Awards,…

Patio Garden: Sow in So Little Space

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:17:30 +0000

Short on space or without a garden? Garden in bed. Scout Regalia’s bed. The freestanding fully-assembled raised bed SR Patio Garden is designed specifically for patios, balconies, and other hard surfaces. It’s a smart design and did I mention it’s eco-conscious,…

Inside Peek at New York Urban Gardens

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:00:46 +0000

I admit was riddled with garden envy when I attended an urban gardens tour a few weeks ago presented by the French Institute Alliance Française of New York as part of their Art de Vivre series. Curated by Marie-Dominique Deniau Sorman, former Madame Figaro garden…

Good Old Stuff Repurposed Into Garden Art

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:06:44 +0000

Say you just happen to have a couple of extra old Magnavox and other old record player “horns” lying around. Why not transform them into planters like these? That’s what the folks at Fine Garden Art have done with them and…

Vertical Farming on Rise for Urban Food Supply

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:00:24 +0000

Valcent Product’s VertiCrop system of hanging gardens

By 2050 more than 80% of the world’s population is expected to be living in urban areas. How will we feed them? Vertical farming offers a highly effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient solution. On a typical 7,000 sq…

New Spin on Planters and Design

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:07:50 +0000

I came cross this cool spinning “ferris wheel” planter while researching items to include in the small two-room garden shed I am designing with interior designer, Victoria Lyon for the upcoming Stamford Designer Show House. Though the location is certainly more peri-urban…

Mobile Urban Gardens in Upcycled Parcels

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:00:05 +0000

Welcome the itinerant gardener, not the one who travels from plot to plot, but the one whose community gardens travel from spot to spot. We’ve written about mobile gardens before, but these self-contained gardens go beyond being simply plant-growing mobile allotments, they…

Vertical Vegetable Garden Rises in Style

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:52:29 +0000

Vertical gardening is on the rise. French designer, Germain Bourré, has created a stunning green wall solution with his Etagères Potagères, a vegetable garden system composed of stacking coated steel shelving modules that offers great placement and design flexibility for small urban gardens.

Behind…

Dutch Artists Plant Public Mobile Vertical Gardens

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:34 +0000

A group of Dutch artists have made Amsterdam a little greener with the launch in March of the Mobile Gardens, an initiative to promote vertical gardening with citizens of Amsterdam New West.

The mobile garden project, created by artists Jair…

Outdoor Garden Pot with Sense of Humor

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:14:09 +0000

Instead of a cachepot, you might think of this one a crashpot. Soon to be released from one of my favorite vendors, AK47, the Crash Pot offers a bit of whimsy to any urban garden willing to take itself a little…