September 1, 2010

At today’s Women in Green Forum, I had the pleasure of meeting Kathleen de Chadenèdes, Director of the s’Cool Initiative, a project of the Orfalea Foundations, who spoke about her organization’s efforts to make fresh local food available to Santa Barbara…
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Category: Community Gardens, Composting, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
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July 10, 2010

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…
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Category: Community Gardens, Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Experiencing, Garden Art, Garden Design, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Reclaimed & Recycled
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June 28, 2010

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…
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Category: Community Gardens, Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Hydroponics, Raised Beds, Reclaimed & Recycled, Rooftop Gardens, Urban Agriculture
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June 20, 2010

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…
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Category: Community Gardens, Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Sky Planters, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
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June 2, 2010

Baltimore’s going greener behind closed gates. By gating some of the city’s approximately 600 miles of private and public alleys, many are being transformed into verdant kid-friendly urban gardens and social meeting spaces.

Residents hope that by gating and greening the alleys they…
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Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
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