Wednesday, September 23, 2015

City Agriculture - September 22, 2015

Atlanta homeless shelter rooftop farm 
http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/05/17/task-force-shelter-producing-pounds-of-veggies-on-rooftop-garden/

City trees and health mapping app from Portland State University, funded by the U.S. Forest Service
http://map.treesandhealth.org

Urban Permablitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTv3M-gu05k

2nd Annual Food+City Challenge Prize (formerly known as the Food Lab at The University of Texas) open to anyone, anywhere with a great idea that will improve how our food system operates.  Submissions open Tues, 9/1 and run through 10/15. Go to
http://www.foodandcity.org/challenge-prize/

SF's Neighborhood Vineyard Project
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/27/can-san-francisco-establish-its-first-urban-vineyard-since-the-19th-century

The Cannery in Davis, CA - a farm to table community development
http://livecannerydavis.com

Sustainable restaurant on a rooftop farm in Copenhagen
http://www.treehugger.com/travel/worlds-most-sustainable-eatery-rooftop-copenhagen.html
http://www.cleansimplelocal.com

Re-Nuble - urban metabollism and local food
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/09/03/reducing-urban-metabolism-with-re-nuble/
http://www.re-nuble.com/

Pop-up urban farm in Norway
http://www.growlab.no/work/work-bygard

Plant This Movie - urban farming around the world, from the incredible story of Havana, Cuba to communities of urban farmers in cities as diverse as Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, London, and Lima.  In the US, the story focuses on New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.  The film is narrated by Daryl Hannah.
http://www.plantthismovie.com

The last decade of urban agriculture in Detroit
http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/10-years-urban-ag-091415.aspx

Cook County Jail flower garden
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cook-county-jail-flower-garden_55c917cbe4b0f73b20ba69c4?kvcommref=mostpopular

Can cities feed themselves?  Estimates are that 15 percent of all food in the United States is produced in a metropolitan area
http://www.agprofessional.com/news/urban-farming-can-cities-feed-themselves
https://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/7023/Cleveland-Other-Cities-Could-Produce-Most-of-Their-Food-Ohio-State-Study.htm - study by OHIO AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER shows that "by using just 80 percent of the vacant land in Cleveland, producers could grow 50 percent of the fruits and vegetables, 25 percent of the poultry and eggs, and 100 percent of the honey that the city consumes..."

GrowOnUs floating garden for food and phytoremediation on Gowanus Canal
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/floating-water-filtering-garden-pops-up-on-the-gowanus-canal/diane-balmori-with-growonus/

Research study on Chicago gardens and gentrification
http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2015/08/in-chicago-michelle-kruk-16-researches-gardening-gentrification-link/

Short history of Detroit urban agriculture system
http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/10-years-urban-ag-091415.aspx

Urban farmers around the world
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/18/urban-farmers-around-the-world-in-pictures

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