December 7, 2011
On a stroll through New York City’s Alphabet City recently, I discovered some wonderful obscure gardens–that is, I almost walked by before noticing them. Coined Alphabet City because it encompasses the areas between Avenues A through D, the neighborhood … Read More…
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Composting, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Permaculture, Public Gardens, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Community Gardens, east village, lower east side, New York City
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August 30, 2009
Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, there are approximately 700,000 vacant lots in New Orleans. Enter groups like The New Orleans Farm and Food Network who help residents transform neighborhood abandoned or underused green space into urban … Read More…
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Composting, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Irrigation, Permaculture, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Community Gardens, community supported agriculture, community supported farms, food justice, food security, gardens, land use agreements, Little Sparrow Farm, lower ninth ward, micro farms, municipal composting, neighborhood farms, New Orleans, post-Katrina, soil amendments, soil testing, sustainable gardening, urban farmin, urban farms, urban gardens, urban micro farms, Villere Urban Farm, White House Garden
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August 15, 2009
Community and urban gardens are an important component of making sustainable communities. The National Community Gardening Week is an opportunity for your local government to show support by publicly promoting community gardens August 23 – 29.
According to the Department … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Composting, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Community Gardens, gardens, green, Green Roofs, locally grown, organic gardening, sustainability, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban garden, urban gardening, urban gardens, urban plots, vegetable gardening, vegetable gardens
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July 21, 2009
Hungry Garden is a free new “geosocial” web resource for building and supporting local farm-to-fork food networks worldwide so consumers, restaurants, schools and institutions can find and purchase fresh local products and produce from local food sources within 50 miles … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Garden Software, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Community Gardens, community supported farms, fresh produce, home gardeners, locally grown, locavore, organic farming, sustainable food systems, urban gardens
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July 16, 2009
The first Vokashi trench composting will be unveiled today, Friday, July 17, 3:00 pm at the NYRP Aberdeen composting lot (take L train to Bushwick & Aberdeen; right on Aberdeen to the end of the block).
After months of collecting … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Composting, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Greening
Tags: clean composting, Community Gardens, composting for small spaces, EM Bokashi method, fermented food waste, free Bokashi starter recipe, make your won Bokashi composter, organic, organic composting, urban gardens, urban plots
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July 7, 2009
GrowFriend is a great tool for gardeners without yards, and people with land who don’t want to garden. Since the dawn of agriculture, people have shared crops and growing responsibilities. Today, we live in crowded cities where we don’t know … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, garden sharing, gardeners, gardening, growing food, landowners, planting, sustainable, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban gardening, urban plots
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July 6, 2009
How green is…Cleveland? Cleveland, Ohio is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire by celebrating the re-birth of a much greener city. The fire occurred on June 22, 1969 when some molten steel fell from a passing train … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Education & Tours, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Permaculture, Resources, Rooftop Gardens, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Clean Water ACt, Cleveland EcoVillage, Cleveland's urban gardens, Community Gardens, Culinary Vegetable Institute, Great Lakes Science Center, green, Green Academy and Center for Sustainablility, not-for-profit gardens, Permaculture, sustainable, sustainable urban gardens, The Chef's Garden, Urban Agriculture, urban farms, urban gardeners, urban gardens, urban trees, wind farm
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May 6, 2009
Rutabega, carrots, and lettuce are sprouting from the freshly tilled soil of several urban lots in Boston. Since 1991, the goal of the Food Project has been to build a national model of engaging young people in personal and social … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Greening, Raised Beds, Rooftop Gardens
Tags: Boston food Project, Boston Medical Center Rooftop Garden, City of Boston, community garden projects, Community Gardens, Dudley neighborhood, edible gardens, gardening for social change, leadership opportunities, locally grown, produce, productive youth communities, rooftop production garden, sustainable agriculture, Urban Agriculture, urban plots
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