Gaming the System: Modularity as the Key to Scalable Community Agriculture
Meet the winning team of the third annual Urban Greenhouse Challenge, hosted by Wageningen University & Research.
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Posts about: urban farm
Growing together: how city farms have nurtured a generation of urban kids
Urban farms have numerous benefits, including lowering transit distances (and thus carbon output), providing food to the local community, and fostering community. Here, we see that they also nurture an interest in nature and connection to the natural world for children living in urban environments.
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A Farm Grows Atop A Convention Center In NYC
The Javits Center has expanded to include a one-acre farm that will supply its kitchen with fresh food at almost zero food miles.
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7 Urban Farms Creating A More Circular Food System
Here are seven urban farms that are helping to accelerate circularity in the global food system.
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These Urban Farms Are Delivering Fresh Produce To Cities In The US
Urban farms are popping up in metropolises around the US to bring fresh produce to city dwellers.
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Ultimate Guide to Black-Owned Green Businesses
Here is a list of some of the black-owned green businesses that exist throughout the United States.
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How To Grow Food In a Concrete Jungle
Once just a utopian fantasy, building flourishing farms in the heart of cities is now crucial in developing a smart, diversified food system capable of feeding a growing world population.
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Singapore Food And Housing Agencies Rent Out Public Rooftops For Urban Farms
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has launched a public tender to lease out the rooftops of public buildings for urban farming in the city-state.
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One Of India's Biggest Aquaponics Farms Employs 80% Women
Indian aquaponic growers have big plans for organic produce.
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Two Urban Farms Growing Food Sustainably In Brazil
In the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Porto Alegre large vertical farming projects are being started.
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How This Urban Farm Is Supplying A Growing Demand For Microgreens In Manila
Urban Roots is an indoor, hydroponic farm growing microgreens in the heart of Metro Manila. They currently grow different kinds of microgreens, addressing the high demand and low supply of these products in the Philippines.
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Top 6 Startups Going the Extra Mile for Organic Food, Farming
With new technologies like hydroponics and vertical farming, these urban farming startups are helping people grow produce in small urban spaces around India.
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Swansea City To Transform City Block Into An Urban Farm
A futuristic "living" building that will be home to plants, vegetables, fish and people has been given the go-ahead by Swansea councilors.
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How Hydroponics Can Help Feed the World While Saving Water
On a traditional farm, it takes more than 15 times that amount of water to grow a head of lettuce. If hydroponics systems were adopted just across the lettuce industry, they could save billions of gallons of water each year in the United States alone.
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Asia's Largest Urban Rooftop Farm Is Growing Rice, Vegetables, and Herbs
Bangkok's Thammasat University, one of the oldest in Thailand, has a new claim to fame: Asia's largest urban rooftop farm.
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Abandoned Tunnel In South Korea Converted Into Vertical Farm
This farm is growing leafy greens and strawberries deep beneath South Korean mountains.
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Babylon Micro Farms: A New Approach To Urban Food Production
Babylon Micro-Farms, a startup, sells 32” x 66” x 96” tall machines that use controlled environment hydroponics to grow leafy greens, herbs and edible flowers.
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Agritecture Exclusive: D.C. Set to Become 3rd Major US City to Hire a Director of Urban Agriculture
An exclusive interview with Agritecture: D.C. Set to Become 3rd Major US City to Hire a Director of Urban Agriculture.
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Vertical Farming Is On The Rise In London
The growing techniques are centuries-old, the agricultural technology is cutting (v)edge and the aesthetics look as if they are from the far-off future.
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Magic Johnson Visits Hospital Greenhouse That Supports Urban Farmers
Magic Johnson visits AM Hydro’s vertical farming installation at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
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Pakistan's First Vertical Farm Sells Leafy Greens To Local Restaurants and Markets
Pakistan’s first vertical farm grows eco-friendly, fresh greens for sale to city’s finest restaurants and markets.
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A Hydroponics Startup Growing Basil Is Developing Their Own LED Technology
In this exclusive interview, Agritecture spoke with St. Louis Indoor Produce (SLIP), a hydroponics start-up growing basil in the heart of the city. We learned about a new lighting technology they are developing that allows farmers to capture their lights’ heat and vent it in or out as climate contro
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Urban Farms Bring People Together and Create Sustainable Lives
Projects such as Melbourne Skyfarm and those by Hong Kong’s Rooftop Republic are turning busy urban areas into hubs of food production. Urban farms can also change the dynamics of a building, bringing people together and encouraging people to lead sustainable lives
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This Paris-Based Start-Up Is Combining Gastronomy and Sustainable Agriculture
An Agritecture exclusive interview with La Plucherie, a paris-based start-up giving chefs access to fresh, local rare herbs. Utilizing a small Indoor growing unit and a “Growtruck”, a showroom of the technical know-how.
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Alemany Farm: A 3.5 Acre Urban Agriculture Oasis In San Francisco
With 38 rows of crops and an “urban orchard” of 140 fruit trees, this is San Francisco’s largest urban farm.
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A 500-Resident Community in North Carolina Plans Sprawling Urban Farm
The $3 million, 6.7-acre farm will include an aquaponics garden and serve as a food, education and engagement hub for the community and its neighbors.
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