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Floating Urban Farms on Recycled Tourist Boats

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:49:19 +0000

Ahoy, bok choy! You got it: boat+botanic=boatanic, a floating greenhouse. Take an existing tourist boat, remove the tourists, add seeds and water regularly, make sure the boat gets plenty of sunshine, then harvest the produce. The resulting bounty will be distributed by…

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,…

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…

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…

See You Later Alley-Gater?

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:51:38 +0000

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…

City Chicks Flock to Urban Rooftop Farm

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:39:26 +0000

Fancy feathering your nest with a pet chicken inside your co-op instead of her coop? You can, well, put the lady in diapers.

Yes, that’s right, there are diapers for chickens. I learned this and and many other practical poultry facts at last Sunday’s…

Green Development Does Dallas

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:03:54 +0000

Scheduled to break ground in early 2011, Forwarding Dallas, the product of a collaboration between Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, will run “off the grid,” acting as a working model of sustainability for cities around the globe. The design was…

A Carton of Gardens for Urban Patios Everywhere

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:08:26 +0000

So you want to grow your own veggies but don’t have a garden, no problem! Garden in the Koop’s Patio Garden brings the garden to you in an egg carton filled with something for your patio, your deck or even the fire…