Urban Gardening

Landscaping Your Outdoor Space Whether in a Penthouse or on a First Floor

Toni Haber | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Ny Outdoor Space, Outdoor Space Design, Outdoor Space, Urban Gardening, Landscaping Advice, Landscaping Tips, Landscaping, New York News

Whether you've got a professional landscaper or you're doing it yourself, getting the most from your outdoor space simply requires a little thought and careful planning.

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A New Spot For Farmers And Gardeners

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Gardening Store, Video, Detroit Farm and Garden, Community Garden, Urban Gardening, Urban Farming, Farming Store, 555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios, Detroit Farm, Urban Agriculture Detroit, Detroit Garden, Detroit Farm Store, Urban Agriculture, 555 Gallery Detroit, Detroit Gardening Store, Detroit Business, Detroit News

Just in time for spring, a new garden supply store is opening to meet Detroit's growing urban agriculture needs. Detroit Farm and Garden opened Mon...

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Alys Fowler: Food for Thought (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Birmingham, Allotments, Bbc, Self-Sufficiency, Ethical, The Edible Garden, Supermarkets, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Urban Gardening, Alys Fowler, Video, Green News

Gardener, Alys Fowler, is an individual who manages to balance city life with sustainable living. The BBC presenter currently lives in Birmingham but is semi self-sufficient and eats 100% seasonally.

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Video: Gardens That Teach

Kelly Meyer | Posted 05.28.2012

With a little creativity, vision and willingness to get our hands dirty, we can remake spaces defined by asphalt and dead grass into productive places of beauty.

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Going Green in the City

Linda Buzzell | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Urban Homesteading, Chickens, Permaculture, Green Living, Ecotherapy, Urban Gardening, Urban Farming, Green News

Way too many of us believe we can't go green because we live in the city, have no land, have a small apartment, etc. etc. So we continue to be slaves of the supermarket.

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'Food Forest' To Let Urbanites Pick Own Produce Right Down The Street

AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Food Forest, Sustainable Produce, Video, Sustainable Gardening, Urban Gardening, Seattle Food Forest, Seattle, Fresh Produce, Urban Farm, Food News

SEATTLE — A plot of grass sits in the middle of Seattle, feet from a busy road and on a hill that overlooks the city's skyline. But it's no ordi...

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Work, Reimagined: Detroit Gets Creative

Zak Rosen | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Detroit Impact, Detroit, Detroit Manufacturing, Urban Gardening, Detroit Economy, Detroit Unemployment, Detroit News

Detroit is becoming a place, in certain pockets, where citizenship isn't defined by voting and paying taxes. It's thought of more broadly -- creative collaboration to create new ways of living out of necessity.

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How Does Your Garden Grow? Better With A $70K Grant

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Denver-Urban-Gardens, Video, Community Gardens, Peoples Garden Grant Program, Denver Impact, Denver News, Urban Gardening, Peoples Garden, Denver News

When Denver Urban Gardens started in 1985, few would have predicted its astonishing growth. In 26 years, the project has sprouted from just three gar...

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A Tree Grows in Harlem

Alex Budman | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Tom Hanks, Harlem, Urban Gardening, Edward Norton, Education, Crowdrise, Harlem Grown, Tony Hillery, Green Thumb, Harlem Garden, School Gardens, Impact News

In the Harlem Grown garden, children gain a respect for nature and the environment. They study about earth sciences and insects, gaining insight into the fundamentals of nature.

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Magazine Publisher Moonlights as Urban Beekeeper

Joan Brunwasser | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Food, Gardening, Honeybees, Organic Food, Urban Gardening, Magazines, Green News

"Fellow beekeepers. What a riot! We are a strange and passionate lot. I have yet to meet one that I did not automatically trust. I have never been let down by someone who loves to keep bees. It takes a special kind of person to be chosen by the girls to tend them."

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Organically Grown for City Dwellers: Container Gardens

Susan Fogwell | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Container Gardens, Growing Vegetables, City Dwellers, Vegetable Gardening, Vegetable Garden, Urban Gardening, Food News

Container-grown vegetables are well worth the effort as long as some forethought goes into selecting the plants and pots, and the maintenance is unfailing.

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Afterschool Program Grows Food, Connections

Peak Johnson | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Philadelphia, Afterschool-Programs, Vegetable Gardening, Gardening, Urban Gardening, Urban Tree Connection, Educational Gardening, Education News

What used to be nothing but a huge parking lot for the Philadelphia Housing Authority has become something much more to a group of residents living in the Haddington section of Philadelphia.

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Is Your Garden Safe?

AP | By DAVID RUNK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soil Chemicals, Lead in Gardens, Garden Lead, Garden Arsenic, Toxic Garden, Arsenic in Gardens, Green Living, Garden Chemicals, Urban Gardens, Chemicals in Gardens, Organic Food, Urban Gardening, Environment, Food, Gardening, Green News

DETROIT -- With remnants of once-legal lead paint, leaded gasoline and other pollutants from the nation's industrial past tainting land in U.S. cities...

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An Urban Orchard On Its Way In Logan Square

The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Logan Square, Chicago Rarities, Chicago Urban Orchard, Urban Orchard, Urban Gardening, Chicago Rarities Orchard Project, Chicago, Chicago Impact, Chicago News

Setting up an urban garden in Chicago is hard enough. Aside from the difficulty of growing crops in a concrete environment that spends much of the yea...

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Students as Stewards of the Earth

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Gardens, Organic Gardening, Gardening, Urban Gardening, Green News

by guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva A year and half ago, I received an email from Nicole Calmels, a sixth-grade science teacher a...

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All Hail the Seed Bomb: Healing Nature Deficit Disorder One Gooey Ball at a Time

Celia Alario | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seed-Bombing, Urban Gardening, Guerilla Gardening, Green, Seeds, Urban-Gardening, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, Seed-Bombs, Nature Deficit Disorder, Green Living, Los Angeles, Urban Gardens, La Impact, Green News

On a recent visit to Los Angeles I was overjoyed at the creativity, ingenuity, business savvy and pure chutzpah of a green service project presented on the streets -- called Seed Bombs.

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A Visit to My Kitchen: Mike Lieberman, the Urban Organic Gardener

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Gardening, Gardening, Urban Gardening, Green News

Mike Lieberman is in my kitchen today talking about his personal connection to food, his addiction to his produce and his fear that we might be banned...

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'Grow Food, Grow Hope' Organization Helps Struggling Families

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Struggling-Family, Community Gardens, Unemployment, Urban Gardening, Hunger in America, Grow Food Grow Hope, Smarter Ideas, Video, Impact News

To turn the tides for Ohio families in need, the Grow Food, Grow Hope project grants participants the opportunity to grow their own produce, NBC Night...

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The Economy of the Garden -- Part Two

Jon Foreman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Gardening, Local Food, Jon Foreman, Capitalism, Global Economy, Gardening, Globalization, Impact News

I have more in common with watermelons than I'd like to admit. Deep down inside of me, the vines of an insatiable appetite are hungry for more, no matter what I consume or acquire.

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LOS ANGELES EXHIBITS: PLAN ForYourArt Aug 26-Sept 1

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vertical-Gardens, De LaB, Saturdays Off the 405, Tom Maroni, LA Commons, Urban Gardening, Homegirl-Cafe, Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles News

There has never been more worldwide attention on the creative culture of Los Angeles. Each Week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings thro...

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The Rise and Fall of School Gardens in New York's Past Can Guide Us Into the Future

Daniel Bowman Simon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, School Gardens, Education, Michelle Obama Gardening, Michelle Obama, Urban Gardening, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Gardening, Green News

In the past 18 months, school gardens have seen a significant resurgence in popularity, starting in communities across America and right at The White House.

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The Economy of the Garden -- Part One

Jon Foreman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gardening, Jon Foreman, Urban Gardening, Globalization, Global Economy, Local Food, Capitalism, Impact News

My wife and I planted a garden this year. This tiny patch of dirt has become a space where small miracles occur daily. The slow and steady growth of the garden contradicts almost everything about our fast-paced world.

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Brooklyn Farms, Then and Now

Matthew Wills | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Gardens, Farms, Urban Gardening, Brooklyn, Dairy Farm, Vertical Farming, Dickson Despommier, Green News

In 1879, Queens and Kings Counties were the top two counties in market garden production in the U.S. As late as 1959, Kings Country produced 325,324 gallons of milk from 147 cows.

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What Edward Norton Should Know for the UN's Biodiversity Summit

Marielle Anzelone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservation, Urban Nature, Urban Gardening, Edward Norton, Urban Farming, Green News

People used to know the nature in their backyards, back when basic biology classes were taught regularly in schools. Now more children can identify the McDonald's logo than a white oak leaf.

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Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Report: God Bless America

Dave Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Growing, Farming, Organic Food, Urban Gardening, Vegetables, Rooftop Farms, Green Living, Green Energy, Green Roofs, Chicago News

Historically speaking, most Americans have either farmed or gardened, and while maybe it's not as common as it once was, the last several years has seen a renewed interest in productive growing.

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