Detroit Millionaire Throws Down $30M For City's Urban Farm Makeover
Millionaire John Hantz has watched Detroit's population dwindle and buildings left abandoned as businesses and residents move away from the rustbelt's...
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