Urban Farming

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You Can Be an Urban Farmer!

Makenna Goodman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Soil, Compost, Container, Urban Farming, Food Politics, Homesteading, Food, Foodie, Gardening, Green News

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.

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Urban Farms Targetted In LA

LA Weekly | Katherine Spiers | Posted 11.05.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Urban Farms, Urban Farming, Los Angeles News

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...

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What 10 Cities Have The Most Urban Gardens?

Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Gardening, Local Food, Urban Farming, Urban Gardens, Green News

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...

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Potatoes: Harvesting The Urban Garden Bounty

Big Green Boulder. | Big Green Boulder | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Farming, Gardening, Local Food, Urban Farming, Home News

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...

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The Simple Life: A Value Liberals Share With Libertarians

Everett Sizemore | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Libertairians, Urban-Homesteading, Liberals, Urban Farming, Voluntary-Simplicity, Simple-Lving, Green News

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.

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Bad Seed Farm in Kansas City Brings Urban Farming to the Next Level: Legislation

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Urban Agriculture, Zoning, Food Access, Urban Farming, Kansas City, Missouri, Organic Food, Green News

How do we value urban land, and what are the existing laws on the books that keep urban agriculture from flourishing and feeding locals?

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Want to Teach Democracy? Improve School Lunches

Alice Waters | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Community Gardens, Alice Waters, The Nation, Morgan Spurlock, Urban Farming, School Lunches, Food Politics, Green News

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.

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Urban Chickens: The Latest Trend In New York City (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Chickens, New York, Local Food, City Chickens, Raising Chickens, Urban Farming, New York City Chickens, Green News

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...

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How Small Farmers Are Saving the World (And How You Can Help)

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Farming, Produce, Local, Farm, Urban Farming, Farmers Markets, Land, Green, Farm Country, Organic, Seasonal, The Giving Life, Careers, Living News

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...

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Armed Paramilitaries Guarding Detroit Grocery Stores

CNNMoney.Com | Steve Hargreaves | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Farming, Food Banks, Economy, Urban Farming, Middle Class, Supermarket Guards, Recession, Hunger, Grocery Stores, Detroit, Supermarket, Financial Crisis, Armed Guards, Michigan, Detroit Michigan, Business News

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...

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How To Grow Your Own Window Farm (VIDEO)

Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Urban Farms, Organic Farming, Video, Local Food, Window Farm, Urban Farming, Window Garden, Green, How To, Food, Ask Umbra, Green Living, Gardening, Green News

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...

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Put a Lid On It: Learning to Can

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Food, Cooking, Urban Farming, Green, Sustainability, Food, Green Living, Organic, Local Farmers, Farmers Markets, Eating Locally, Green News

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.

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The Truck Farm: The Coolest Urban Agriculture Project Around (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Urban Farming, Community Sustainable Agriculture, Green, Ian Cheney, Sustainable Farming, Green Living, Green Living Tips, Wicked Delicate, Dr. Marion Nestle, Fresh Vegetables, Brooklyn Truck Farm, Marion Nestle, Politics of Food, Mobile Farm, Truck Farm, Curt Ellis, Home-Grown Vegetables, Food Politics, Vegetables, Local Vegetables, Food, Local Farmers, Csa, Green News

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...

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Weekly Mulch: Urban Farming 'Mushrooms' During Recession

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Weekly Mulch, Michigan Messenger, Mother Jones, The Media Consortium, Urban Farming, Community Gardens, Chelsea Green, Tmc, Grist, Sara Luckow, Green News

Urban agriculture has a tradition of mushrooming during tough times.

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Street Farmer Genius: Will Allen And Future Of the Good-Food Movement

nytimes.com | ELIZABETH ROYTE | Posted 08.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Will Allen Farmer, Will Allen, Good Food Movement, Local Food, Urban Farming, Farmers, Green News

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...

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Beyond Hippies And Treehuggers: The Urban Farming Revolution

CNN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Produce, Soil, Atlanta, Organic Food, Urban Farming, Community Gardens, Will Allen, HABESHA Gardens, Gardening, Fresh Produce, Plot, Green Living, Green News

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...

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Vertical Vegetecture: Urban Life Plus Farming Equals Cool Design

dornob | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Urban Farming, Design, Architecture, Green Building, Green Design, Vertical Farming, Green News

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...

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MSNBC's Contessa Brewer Dives Into Urban Gardening (VIDEO)

MSNBC | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Kitchen Gardens, Green Living, Giy, Urban Farming, Contessa Brewer, Green News

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 ...

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A Rooftop Farm For the Future

Cathy Erway | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, Growing Chefs, Ben Flanner, Greenpoint Rooftop Farm, Annie Novak, Urban Farming, Slow Food Usa, Rooftop Farms, Goode Green Nyc, Rooftop Farming, Added Value, Brooklyn Rooftop Farm, Goodegreen, Green News

On top of an industrial building overlooking the East River in Brooklyn sits the 6,000 square foot urban farm.

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The Farm Your Tiny Apartment Wants To Be

Chelsea Green | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Matters, Urban Farming, Giy, Victory Gardens, Food, Kitchen Gardens, Green Living, Apartment Gardening, Green News

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...

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Kitchen Garden Photos Sent In By HuffPost Green Readers (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidehuge, Eating Matters, Urban Farming, Victory Gardens, Food, Kitchen Gardens, Green Living, Giy, Green News

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 ...

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Save Water By Watering Plants In The Morning

thedailygreen.com | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Kitchen Garden, Green Living, Gardening, Water, Giy, Urban Farming, Green News

The best time to water plants is usually in the morning, both to maximize the efficiency of H2O used and to promote healthy flora....

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Michelle Obama Gardens With Kids Again, Plants Seedlings

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Michelle Obama, White House Garden, Kitchen Garden, Victory Garden, Urban Farming, Eating Matters, Green News

WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama planted the first fruit and vegetable seedlings in the new White House garden Thursday, assisted by a gro...

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Jake Gyllenhaal's Urban Gardening Lesson (VIDEO)

Just Jared, Treehugger | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Urban Gardening, Jake Gyllenhaal, Urban Farming, Green Living, Green News

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal spent some time at a school, waving a shovel about a new garden and having microphones and cameras thrust toward him: The 28-ye...

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Illegal: Guerrilla Gardening, Veggie Vandalism (VIDEO)

Planet Green, Craft | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Vegetable Vandalism, Guerrilla Gardening, Video, Green Living, Urban Farming, Green News

We don't endorse vandalism. This is just something kind of amazing that's going on. A few people who are disappointed with public spaces -- or maybe...

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