urban farming
This Urban Mushroom Farm Wants to Start a Biological Revolution
Combining aquaponics and hydroponics, mushroom production in Manchester’s Biospheric Studio will be completely self-sustainable, something that could change the way we access food in cities.
A Temporary Urban Farm Grows in Brooklyn
On the former site of Williamsburg's Domino Sugar Factory, a group of urban farmers are tending to a unique project: an edible garden with planned obsolescence.
The World’s Largest Indoor Vertical Farm Is Coming to New Jersey
A new system of growing produce is sunless, soilless, and highly productive: the Newark facility could eventually produce two million pounds of greens in a year.
I Used to Serve in the Navy and Now I Teach At-Risk Kids How to Farm
I have never, ever worked so hard. Even in the Navy I got liberty, I got time off. But this is crazy because it's my passion, there is nothing that can keep me from doing this—knock on wood—day in and day out, all hours of the night. The growing, the...
How a Rotterdam Squat Became a Cutting-Edge Farm
Uit je Eigen Stad is a city farm in Rotterdam experimenting with aquaponics: growing vegetables with the help of fish, and vice versa.
These People Are Growing Salad Greens in an Old Bomb Shelter
Underneath the Northern Line tube track in south London, a new underground urban garden is growing salad greens and microherbs that have never seen the sun. I went there to find out if it's just gimmick, or if will it upend how we view farming in the...
Detroit's Vacant Lots Are Causing Hay Fever
As ragweed pollen rages, letting vacant lots grow is better than mowing them occasionally.
A Gardener in South Central LA Wants You to Grow Your Own Food
Had Ron Finley's garden not been cited for obstructing parkways and growing the wrong kinds of plants, his message of self-sufficiency and the wonders of soil might never have made it as far as it has.
A Gardener in South Central LA Wants You to Grow Your Own Food
Had Ron Finley's garden not been cited for obstructing parkways and growing the wrong kinds of plants, his message of self-sufficiency and the wonders of soil might never have made it as far as it has.