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Window Farms and the Power of Crowd Sourcing
What began as an experiment in window farming became a crowd-sourced answer to our industrialized food system.
Urban Farming: Rice Paddy in a Tokyo Office Building
When office workers at a Tokyo outsourcing firm complete their computer work, they don gloves and boots and get to work in the building’s 1,000 square foot indoor rice paddy.
Vintage Candy Machine Turned Guerrilla Gardening Dispenser
How awesome is this? The Common Studio’s Greenaid project is outfitting vintage candy machines to sell seed bombs!
Truck Farm: the Concrete Jungle’s Mobile Garden
I am intrigued with the creative way concrete jungle dwellers are finding ways to grow gardens whether it’s through yardsharing or fire escape farming, and now, Truck Farms. Film makers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, the creative minds behind King Corn and The Greening of Southie are proving that you can garden anywhere with their [...]
Space Saving DIY Upside Down Herb Planters
I was reading some comments on an organic gardening post in which apartment dweller were lamenting that they don’t have the room to garden. Don’t tell that to Mike Lieberman (@CanarsieBK), the force behind UrbanOrganicGardener.com. Actually, I’m sure he’d be happy to hear from you and he’d share some great tips, like these upsidedown hanging [...]
