Archive for the ‘ Urban farming ’ Category
I’m sure JWS has already read this and is renewing his commitment to composting, especially seeing as he has a huge honking yard now. Regardless, for the rest of us, the urban agriculture revolution continues. The NYTimes reports on growing numbers of households attempting to operate compost heaps in their apartments. [ READ MORE ]
NYTimes reports on outsourcing backyard organic gardening. Consequently, while those with more time than income can garden in the ghetto, those with more money than time can garden in their backyard. Apparently gardening is the cool thing to do these days. Is that why I keep wishing we could plant in a real yard instead [ READ MORE ]
MWP sends this link, which suggests that Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is investigating what it would take to build skyscraper farms in Manhattan. Imagine looking out your window and seeing the vegetables you’ll soon be eating for dinner rather than your neighbor eating dinner! [ READ MORE ]
In Detroit. [ READ MORE ]
Urban gardening in East Cleveland. [ READ MORE ]
And with impeccable timing, Rob Brezny’s freewill astrological forecast for is all about gardening: Guerrilla gardening is my favorite kind of prank: a benevolent one. The practitioners of this growing global movement are fertility agitators who sneak onto unused fields under cover of broad daylight, often in urban landscapes, and cultivate flowers, herbs, and food crops. [ READ MORE ]
Now that I’ve seen JS’s backyard garden in Brooklyn and hear of plans for another JS’s Bronx garden plans, I’ve been turned on to the potential of urban agriculture. The NYTimes has an article on a profit-making one acre garden in North Philly to further whet that appetite. Of course, their profits are a pretty [ READ MORE ]