All Blog Posts Tagged 'urban_farming' (4)

Butter lettuce from Gotham Greens, a new hydroponic garden in industrial Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

By GLENN COLLINS…

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'Grow your own' fever has gripped the Pennines community, which is aiming for self-sufficiency



By Joanna Moorhead

Sunday, 29 November 2009





Founders Estelle Brown, Pam Warhurst and Mary Clear, standing in their 'grow your own' community garden in Todmorden



It's an ordinary small town in England, but its residents claim they've discovered the secret that could save the planet. And with world leaders preparing to gather in Copenhagen in just… Continue

By DICKSON D. DESPOMMIER

Published: New York Times, August 23, 2009







IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most farming into cities, and grow crops in tall, specially constructed buildings. It’s called vertical… Continue

By: Dayo Olopade, The Root, April 22, 2009



The problem, says Seneca Price-Kern, an advocate for local farming who has started a branch of the WeFarm America collective in Chicago, is a combination of cost and culture. Going green is costly: Shopping at Whole Foods can eat up an entire paycheck. And despite black Americans’ agrarian roots, farming and naturalism has often seemed more a project for the barnyard-loving, hemp-wearing set.… Continue