Urban Gardens

Is your city participating in the National Community Gardening Week August 23-29?

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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Window Farms: Getting the Hang of Urban Farming in Your Own Apartment

July 29, 2009

Urban gardeners can join a new network of green-minded city dwellers experimenting in the creation of vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield, edible window gardens right in their own apartments.

Window Farms, the community-based, crowdsourced environmental design project of Britta … Read More…

Category: Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
Tags: community-based design, croudsourced, DIY food, green, Hydroponics, sustainability, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban gardening, urban research, vegetable gardening, vertical farming, Vertical Gardens
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The Future’s Looking Up on a Rooftop Farm

June 12, 2009

Cross-posted from Not Eating in New York

Rooftop Farm for the Future: A rustic scarecrow looms before the skyline of Manhattan’s midtown skyscrapers. Under its watch lie more than 30 varieties of vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs on a rooftop … Read More…

Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Rooftop Gardens, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, Edible Landscaping, green, green rooftops, New York City urban farming, Rooftop Gardens, rooftops gardening, sustainable, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban vegetable gardening, vegetable gardening
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