Millionaire John Hantz has watched Detroit's population dwindle and buildings left abandoned as businesses and residents move away from the rustbelt's...
civileats.com | Forrest Fulton | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green
I believe suburban farming, like urban farming before it, can begin to bring back a more civic, sustainable economy. After urban renewal we need a sub...
Makenna Goodman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
You can grow nutritious sprouts on a counter top, salad greens on a windowsill, dwarf fruit trees on a patio, tomatoes on a balcony, and much more.
LA Weekly | Katherine Spiers | Posted 11.05.2009 | Los Angeles
Sitting on the grounds of Silver Lake Farms, one could almost be in the countryside - convince yourself that the thrum of traffic on Rowena is a river...
Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Even in cities where it seems like the biggest patch of garden comes in a windowbox, or in cities better known for high rates of murder or snow, commu...
Big Green Boulder. | Big Green Boulder | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home
we harvested this week, just ahead of the frost, and to my surprise: My otherwise mediocre home garden yielded nearly 40 pounds of perfect potatoes. S...
Everett Sizemore | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
What many "locavores" and "foodies" don't know is that a very similar movement has been going on for decades on the other side of the party.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
How do we value urban land, and what are the existing laws on the books that keep urban agriculture from flourishing and feeding locals?
Alice Waters | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
What's missing from the national conversation about school lunch reform is the opportunity to use food to teach values that are central to democracy.
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
HuffPost Green is based in New York, and we've heard plenty about the chicken-raising trend in our fair city from organizations like Just Food. Howeve...
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living
Driving through farm country this week - lush green fields, huge blue skies, produce stands filled to bursting - I was listening to a piece on the rad...
CNNMoney.Com | Steve Hargreaves | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood, a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a store. Ten feet away stands another man clad in m...
Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
Live in a big city? Want to grow your own garden? Then tune in to Grist's AskUmbra to find out how to grow your own window farm in an urban environmen...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
It helps the organic farmers in the summer and helps you throw together a quick healthy meal on a cold night when fresh veggies are only being shipped from Chile.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Struck with the urge to build a garden but with no land to grow it on, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis (co-creators of the film King Corn) of Wicked Delica...
The Media Consortium | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green
Urban agriculture has a tradition of mushrooming during tough times.
nytimes.com | ELIZABETH ROYTE | Posted 08.05.2009 | Green
Like others in the so-called good-food movement, Allen, who is 60, asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobblin...
CNN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fres...
dornob | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
In increasingly dense urban areas, sometimes the only way to build is up. And with a movement to grow more food locally and to add more green to our u...
MSNBC | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
Contessa Brewer: MSNBC anchor and enthusiastic urban farming neophyte. She wanted to learn how to grow her own food, so she took a crack at it and ...
Cathy Erway | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
On top of an industrial building overlooking the East River in Brooklyn sits the 6,000 square foot urban farm.
Chelsea Green | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
Indoor space can be used for gardening too if there's a sunny spot on a windowsill or in a room: container vegetables, herbs, and small fruit trees ar...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
Thank you! We asked HuffPost Green readers to send in photos and descriptions of their kitchen gardens (or victory gardens, if you prefer), and they ...
thedailygreen.com | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green
The best time to water plants is usually in the morning, both to maximize the efficiency of H2O used and to promote healthy flora....
AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama planted the first fruit and vegetable seedlings in the new White House garden Thursday, assisted by a gro...
Posted 01.04.2010 | Impact