urban farming
Rooftop Farmers Are Feeding Hungry New Yorkers During The Pandemic
Urban gardens and community fridges are just a few of the ways activists are distributing food—and they need all the help they can get.
How to Remember Every Boring Lecture You've Ever Had to Sit Through
Take a page from IIT grad Kaustubh Khare's notebooks and start sketchnoting like a boss.
How Gentrification is Threatening one of Brooklyn's Last Urban Farms
Local residents and activists are digging in to save this beloved community resource.
Can Farming Solve Detroit's Postindustrial Blues?
In an excerpt from Mark Sundeen's 'The Unsettlers,' the journalist connects with a young Detroit couple who have gone back to the land.
Turning Derelict Buildings into an Urban Farm in Detroit
The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative produces thousands of pounds of organic produce each year in Detroit's blighted North End, using existing infrastructure and engaging the local community.
How to Biohack Your Garden Plot for Better Vegetables
I’ve looked into hacking technology to figure out soil and air pollution, which could then be applied to improving farms and gardens.
How to Grow Oyster Mushrooms with Beer and Coffee Waste
We spoke to urban farmers building a fungal empire with beer and coffee waste.
An Experimental Farm on the River Thames Is Changing the Way City-Dwellers Eat
On a jetty jutting into the River Thames, there's an experimental farm where the beginnings of a social, technological, and agricultural prototype for urban farming in the future are fruiting.
How This Community Vegetable Garden Reclaimed a London Construction Site
Skip Garden and Kitchen sits among the cranes and building debris of the King’s Cross redevelopment area. “It’s about bringing the community into a business premises,” events coordinator Gwen Mainwaring explains.
Dirty Work: Spring Garden Lettuce Wraps with Anastasia Cole Plakias
Last month, Cole Plakias was making the rounds to promote her new book and stopped by our office to participate in our Dirty Work series and sample the fruits of her company’s continual labor.
'A Guide to Urban Gardening,' Today's Comic by Alabaster Pizzo
Ralphie and Jeanie are sick of everything and they're going to be urban farmers!
An Urban Farm Is Teaching Ex-Offenders to Grow Salad Leaves
After recovering from his own addiction problems, Steve Glover set up the Severn Project, an urban farm located on the outskirts of Bristol employing people from socially excluded demographics.