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Biopesticides, Farm Worker Pensions, School Salad Bars and Farm Camps Win...
Fungi to fight plant pests? Agri-biz says it can't be done. Healthy school lunches? Superintendents claim it's too costly and kids won't eat vegetables. Health insurance and
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Slow Food's 1,000 Sustainable Gardens for Africa
One thousand gardens are blooming across Africa, where the international group Slow Food is helping schools, villages, and other communities grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs using sustainable water...
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Nature, Biodiversity And NYC? Wildflower Week and PlaNYC Prove These Go...
Spring is in the air. Flowers and ideas are blooming in NYC. NYC has a new nature focus. The
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Edible Landscaping in Parks to Feed the Homeless
It's always seemed strange to me that most parks grow only ornamental flowers and shrubs. Sure, it's nice to have pretty flowers around, but what if our parks also produced food for those who need it?...
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A Pack Full of Tools for Urban Farmers On the Go
Since the last time I was in San Francisco, little community gardens seem to have multiplied dramatically, popping up in narrow spaces between buildings and formerly garbage-strewn lots. That pattern...
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Awesome Time-Lapse Film Turning a Park into a Veggie Garden (Video)
When I wrote about a solar warehouse in Baltimore, I noted that one of its biggest advantages was how visible it was from a nearby highway. A similar point could be made for a new vegetable garden in...
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From Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School...
School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient...
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From Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School...
School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient...
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Edible Gardens are Busting Out All Over
Call them edible gardens, or urban agriculture, or guerrilla gardening: whatever. The fact is people are finding unused nooks and crannies to plant vegetables everywhere.
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Spirit of Hope Urban Farm: Filling Food Pantries, Strengthening Communities...
An urban farm in Detroit feeds the community, educates children, and brings neighbors together.
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Guerrilla Gardener Grows Community, Finds God, and a Beautiful Note (Video)
A vigilante gardener shares his experiences of growing food, meeting neighbors, and learning to share.
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Heathrow Residents Speak Out For Squatted Community Garden (Video)
Residents don't always welcome squatters moving in next door. But in Heathrow, England, it was infinitely preferable to the alternatives.
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How Rooftop Farms, Upstate Farms and Community Gardens All Help to Feed New...
From the rooftops of Queens via an upstate farm to an urban community garden. The term "farm" can mean many different things.
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Ever Seen a Walking Onion? How Unusual Plants Promote Greener Gardening (Video)
Growing your own food is good. But why limit yourself to grocery store staples. One London project encourages gardeners to think outside the box.
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Urban Agriculture As Economic Stimulus: Help Grow a People-Funded Farm (Video)
Community farming is not altruistic do-gooding. This NC collective argues it's about rethinking our entire food system.
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Square Foot Gardening and Permaculture Join Forces (Video)
Permaculture gardens often look wild and unkempt. Square foot gardening imposes order on the tiniest of spaces. Can the two be combined?
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Resilience Has Not Been Lost (It's Been Willfully Ignored)
Resilience is a hot topic right now. But it's important to remember it is nothing new. Many communities have lived and breathed this stuff for years.
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Queens Fights for a High Line of Its Own
Queens residents are working to turn abadoned elevated railway into a park and recreational community space.
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Urban Depavers Return Parking Lots to Paradise
The growing movement of depaving rips the asphalt off abandoned lots and converts the spaces to community gardens.
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Can Small-Scale Compost Entrepreneurs Circumvent the NIMBYs?
Small-scale composting collection services seem to be proliferating. Can they take on larger, less-popular industrial-scale composting?
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