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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…

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,…

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…

Fresh Bike Market Baskets for the Urban Cyclist

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:02:34 +0000

Carrie Bike Basket by Marie-Louise Gustafsson

We buy local, not just in support of small farmers and to ensure the freshness of our food, but also to preserve the environment, strengthen our communities, and just to know where out food comes…

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…

DIY Urban Garden Father’s Day Gifts

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:23:21 +0000

Photo from Flikr, by Smallthingsiced

Check out these cool seed tapes and simple birdhouse you can make for Dad. I like to support the economy just as much as the next person, but I’ve always appreciated receiving a home made gift–especially…

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…

Get Rolling With Mobile Vegetable Garden

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:45:16 +0000

Spotted on Instructables, this mobile garden-on-wheels is a stylish step up from planting in a wheel barrel.

The only available sunlight in the designer’s property was right in front of his garage door. Necessity, being the mother of invention, inspired the…