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 Servicehttp://map.treesandhealth.orgUrban Permablitzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTv3M-gu05k2nd 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 tohttp://www.foodandcity.org/challenge-prize/SF's Neighborhood Vineyard Projecthttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/27/can-san-francisco-establish-its-first-urban-vineyard-since-the-19th-centuryThe Cannery in Davis, CA - a farm to table community developmenthttp://livecannerydavis.comSustainable restaurant on a rooftop farm in Copenhagenhttp://www.treehugger.com/travel/worlds-most-sustainable-eatery-rooftop-copenhagen.htmlhttp://www.cleansimplelocal.comRe-Nuble - urban metabollism and local foodhttp://cleantechnica.com/2015/09/03/reducing-urban-metabolism-with-re-nuble/http://www.re-nuble.com/Pop-up urban farm in Norwayhttp://www.growlab.no/work/work-bygardPlant 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.comThe last decade of urban agriculture in Detroithttp://www.modeldmedia.com/features/10-years-urban-ag-091415.aspxCook County Jail flower gardenhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cook-county-jail-flower-garden_55c917cbe4b0f73b20ba69c4?kvcommref=mostpopularCan cities feed themselves? Estimates are that 15 percent of all food in the United States is produced in a metropolitan areahttp://www.agprofessional.com/news/urban-farming-can-cities-feed-themselveshttps://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 Canalhttp://inhabitat.com/nyc/floating-water-filtering-garden-pops-up-on-the-gowanus-canal/diane-balmori-with-growonus/Research study on Chicago gardens and gentrificationhttp://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2015/08/in-chicago-michelle-kruk-16-researches-gardening-gentrification-link/Short history of Detroit urban agriculture systemhttp://www.modeldmedia.com/features/10-years-urban-ag-091415.aspxUrban farmers around the worldhttp://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/18/urban-farmers-around-the-world-in-pictures
All the City Agriculture links I've collected since July 9, 2013 until June 23, 2015
July 9, 2013
Tokyo vertical gardens http://tokyo-diy-gardening.org/category/vertical-gardens/Rooftop gardens in Beijing and Hong Kong http://www.theperennialplate.com/episodes/2013/01/episode-110-a-tale-of-two-rooftops/Hong Kong rooftop garden (in Chinese) http://www.cityfarm.hk/Vertical forest in Milan, Italy nears completion http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/?p=207Green Up rooftops http://www.avatar-architettura.itHarvest geek or internet of things for your garden http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077260917/harvestgeek-brains-for-your-gardenUrban beehive design http://design-milk.com/get-out-the-urban-beehive-by-rowan-dunford/ Asheville, NC urban farm school http://ashevillage.org/program/urban-farm-school/ FutureTech Farm: modular farm, "like Farmville with real plants" http://seedstock.com/2013/01/17/startup-seeks-to-shape-future-of-urban-agriculture-with-fish-automation-and-well-designed-hardware/ https://www.facebook.com/FutureTechFarmMapping available public lots in NYC and helping groups begin projects on them http://596acres.orgMelbourne mobile air gardens http://inhabitat.com/airborne-worlds-first-rotating-air-gardens-debut-in-melbourne/Tokyo business building grows food for employees on green walls http://inhabitat.com/pasona-hq-is-an-urban-farm-that-grows-food-for-its-employees-in-tokyo/Vertical forest office building in Vietnam http://inhabitat.com/vo-trong-nghia-architects-to-build-vertical-forest-office-building-in-vietnam/Affordable apartments with rooftop farm in the Bronx http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-arbor-house-apartment-boasts-a-massive-rooftop-farm-and-affordable-rent-in-the-bronx/Urban farming units, greenhouses in containers http://inhabitat.com/damien-chivialles-urban-farming-units-transform-old-shipping-containers-into-greenhouses-for-organic-produce/London's Elephant and Castle Urban Forest http://elephantandcastleurbanforest.comAllston/Brighton apartment with gardens instead of parking lots http://boingboing.net/2013/03/26/garden-apartment-redefined.htmlPrefab farm and retail food store http://www.thefarmery.comRed Hook, NY one acre farm http://added-value.orgStrasbourg greened building microclimate proposal http://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/CHAISE_URBAIN/#-----------------July 28, 2013
Urban Factory Farming: Industrial Agriculture Ecologies and LED PinkhousesAccording to the BBC (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130603-city-farms-to-feed-a-hungry-world/all), "Urban agriculture has the potential to become so pervasive within our cities that by the year 2050 they may be able to provide its citizens with up to 50% of the food they consume." The BBC forgets that the Victory Gardens of WWII produced close to 50% of US vegetables by the end of WWII. At that rate, if we decided to, we could be producing at least 50% of our vegetables from local urban and suburban gardeners before 2020 using only 1940s technology.Besides the already existing community gardens and the rooftop gardens which are beginning to spring up in places like Brooklyn and Boston, vertical farming in one form or another is now happening in Japan, Korea, Singapore, the United States, and Canada. New vertical farms are planned for Milwaukee (http://www.tkwa.com/growing-power-vertical-farm/), Memphis (http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2012/nov/7/green-girl-to-create-indoor-vertical-farm/) and Jackson Hole, Wyoming (http://www.verticalharvest.org)).A project in Linköping, Sweden (http://www.the9billion.com/2012/02/22/construction-begins-for-plantagon-vertical-farm-in-sweden/) is especially interesting as it will be an urban agriculture industrial ecology, using heat from the neighborhood of a biogas plant and an incinerator, part of the municipal district heating system. The vertical farm will use heat from waste incineration and process waste from the greenhouse to produce biogas. More at http://www.biorama.at/vertical-farming-in-linkoping-von-asiatischem-grunzeug-und-led-glashausern/ [in German]Another aspect of urban agricultural industrial ecological design is illustrated at FarmedHere (http://farmedhere.com) of Bedford Park, Illinois which operates a 90,000 square-foot (8,360 square meter) indoor farm producing tilapia (freshwater fish), a variety of leafy green vegetables, and several other products. Such combined fish and plant systems can also be used to process human or industrial wastes and even restore damaged local ecosystems as John Todd (http://www.toddecological.com) and others have shown.Another development is controlled environment agriculture (CEA), growing specialty crops in closed systems under LED lights tuned directly to the red and blue wavelengths the plants use. These are pinkhouses rather than greenhouses.Barry Holtz of Caliber Biotherapeutics (http://www.caliberbio.com), which grows millions of plants to make new drugs and vaccines in a 150,000-square-foot, 50 foot tall "plant factory", says "A photon is a terrible thing to waste, so we developed these lights to correctly match the photosynthesis needs of our plants. We get almost 20 percent faster growth rate and save a lot energy…. We couldn't compete with iceberg lettuce farmers, but for certain specialty crops, the economics wouldn't be so bad."from http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/21/185758529/vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-of-urban-farmingMore at http://www.ledinside.com/news/2013/5/lednews_201305281350---------------------August 22, 2013
Living Wall in Londonhttp://www.rubenshotel.com/about-us/the-living-wallOctober 22, 2013Greater Yield: Series on Urban Agriculturehttp://colabradio.mit.edu/introducing-greater-yield-a-series-on-urban-agriculture/-----------------------November 5, 2013
http://www.hyperlocalmarket.comLondon student's design for marketing local foodhttp://solefoodfarms.comVancouver, BC's largest urban orchard in North America http://inhabitat.com/shanghai-shopping-mall-sprouts-a-flourishing-urban-garden/Shanghai urban garden in shopping mallhttp://inhabitat.com/nyc/the-empire-state-building-gets-a-9100-sq-ft-green-roof-by-xero-flor/Empire State Building's new green roofhttp://inhabitat.com/wilkinson-eyres-carbon-positive-singapore-gardens-by-the-bay-wins-the-2013-riba-lubetkin-prize/Singapore's Gardens by the Bay net positive carbon 2 hectare greenhouseshttp://www.cityfarmer.info/2013/07/30/new-york-citys-first-rooftop-farm-circa-1904/NYC's first rooftop farm at Ansonia Hotel from 1904-1906NYC and disaster food supplyhttp://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/10/new-yorks-looming-food-disaster/7294/Indoor aquaponics gardening systemhttp://www.aqualibrium.comCleveland's 66th Street Biocellar - a passive solar greenhouse on the footprint of an abandoned househttp://www.neighborhoodsolutionsinc.com/nsichateauhoughbc.htmAustria's edible pavilion for 2015 Milan expohttp://archinect.com/news/article/85308746/edible-austrian-pavilion-for-2015-milan-expo-by-penda-alex-daxb-ckNYC Town Square Initiativehttp://www.gensleron.com/cities/2013/6/10/town-square-initiative-new-york.htmlEducation and Agriculturehttp://vimeo.com/78133130---------------------------January 28, 2014
http://inhabitat.com/energaia-grows-algae-for-eating-on-rooftops-in-bangkok/#more-551188spirulina farming on Bangkok rooftopshttp://www.designboom.com/architecture/vo-trong-nghia-architects-layers-plantation-for-stacking-green-01-23-2014/Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) multi-level garden house, same architect did green kindergarten:http://www.inhabitots.com/the-farming-kindergarten-boasts-a-rooftop-vegetable-garden-where-students-grow-their-own-food/http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130731093456.htmCCS with desert jatropha carbon farminghttp://noreturnticket.kceridon.com.Kimi Ceridon, the Boston Metro Organizer for NOFA/Mass, is involved in local food and personal food production. Along with her husband, she raises chickens, has two bee hives, and a 6-bed organic garden to supplement her meat, fish, grain, and vegetable CSA shares. With so much abundance, there is ample opportunity for fermenting, canning, preserving, drying, and freezing. Kimi recently started the Master of Gastronomy program at Boston University where she is focusing on food systems and food policy. http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/build-garden-city-you-have-plan-plant.htmlSingapore's planned "City in a Garden"http://www.jgdomestic.com/tour.htmlhttp://inhabitat.com/jg-domestic-americana-restaurant-serves-up-a-living-wall-of-herbs-in-philadelphia/Philadelphia restaurant with a wall of herbshttp://inhabitat.com/futuristic-forts-of-fanaticism-cater-to-obsessive-gardeners-fishermen-sport-buffs-car-lovers-and-computer-geeks/forts-of-fanaticism-visiondivision-2/?extend=1Swedish vision of housing development for gardenershttp://sill-to-sill.tumblr.comHackney City Farm plant shophttp://inhabitat.com/newly-released-photos-show-the-bosco-verticale-vertical-forest-nearing-completion-in-milan/Milan's vertical foresthttp://www.foodfirst.org/en/AB551+urban+agricultureCA urban land law------------------------March 15, 2014
Garden skyscraper project for Berlinhttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/24/green8-twisted-skyscraper-by-agnieszka-preibisz-and-peter-sandhaus/http://www.apcon-berlin.de/projects/projectsdetail/controller/Project/id/1/action/show/http://petersandhaus.blogspot.de/2013/11/green8-vertical-garden-city-for-berlin.htmlLondon underground LED "pink house" ag projecthttp://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=23829O'Hare Airport's aeroponic gardenshttp://www.earthtechling.com/2013/06/ohare-airports-vertical-aeroponic-garden-takes-flight/http://www.flychicago.com/OHare/EN/AboutUs/Sustainability/Aeroponic-Garden.aspx46 floor vertical garden to be built in Sri Lankahttp://www.clearpointresidencies.comGrowing Cities - movie about US urban gardeninghttp://www.growingcitiesmovie.comCan NYC grow all its own food?http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/can-nyc-be-completely-self-reliant/Flavor Orchard for Kunming, Chinahttp://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-flavoursorchard.htmlHong Kong guerrilla gardenershttp://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2014/03/hong_kong_s_guerrilla_gardeners_how_to_grow_sweet_potatoes_and_mangoes_in.single.htmlMaa-bara - low-tech, low-cost kits for aquaponics in the developing world: grow food anywherehttp://maabara.orgNorthern CA initiative to reduce food waste while promoting local ag and good nutritionhttp://cropmobster.comQueens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland builds a multilevel aquaponic system within an old disused mill as a modern urban farmhttp://inhabitat.com/queens-university-students-turn-an-abandoned-mill-into-a-flourishing-urban-farm/Queens University partnered with Biospheric Foundation which is also doing some other interesting things:http://www.biosphericfoundation.com/projects/----------------------April 29, 2014
Second highest living wall in Medellin, Colombiahttp://inhabitat.com/worlds-second-tallest-living-wall-completed-in-medellin-colombia/Urban jungle streetview - overlay Google street map views with living walls and green roofshttp://inear.se/urbanjungle/nosupport.htmlGreen garden parking structure planned for Copenhagenhttp://inhabitat.com/jaja-architects-reinevent-the-parking-garage-into-a-green-community-gathering-space-with-park-n-play/Residential garden towers for Casablanca, Moroccohttp://www.designboom.com/architecture/edouard-francois-the-gardens-of-anfa-morocco-03-18-2014/Foodcloud - Irish start-up: by app, or through the website, businesses who have registered with Foodcloud, can upload details of their surplus food and the time period in which the food can be collected.The app then automatically sends a text message to the nearest community organisation in that area.If they can use the food on offer, they accept the offer and collect it directly from the business.http://foodcloud.ieJapan’s railway station rooftop farms and community gardenshttp://inhabitat.com/rooftop-farms-on-japanese-train-stations-serve-as-community-gardens/http://popupcity.net/japanese-commuters-grow-veggies-on-train-station-rooftops/http://www.soradofarm.com - in JapaneseNet zero vertical farm in Chicagohttp://inhabitat.com/food-waste-fuels-vertical-farming-in-chicago/Todmorden’s Aqua Gardenhttp://inhabitat.com/todmorden-uk-expands-edible-garden-initiative-with-flourishing-aqua-farm/http://incredibleaquagarden.co.ukHanz Farm Detroit - large scale urban agriculture projecthttp://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/introduction.htmlVertical farm for USA pavilion at Expo Milano 2015http://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/architecture-usa-pavilion-expo-milano--------------------------June 18, 2014
Tallest indoor living wall in Quebechttp://inhabitat.com/the-currents-worlds-tallest-indoor-living-wall-sprouts-in-quebec-cityGreen roof farm for Vietnamese kindergartenershttp://votrongnghia.com/projects/farming-kindergarten/French Pavilion for Milan Expo 2015 grows its own food on walls and ceiling http://inhabitat.com/frances-2015-world-expo-pavilion-challenges-world-hunger-with-a-farm-to-table-design/french-pavilion-world-expo-2015-by-xtu-architects-3/?extend=1Milan Expo 2015 looks like it will have a number of innovative sustainable designs for buildings, some of which will be permanent.Falling Fruit is a giant, global, collaborative map of urban food sources - currently pointing the way to over 700 edible types (everything from fruits and nuts to water wells and dumpsters) in over half a million locations worldwide.http://fallingfruit.org Crowd-funding campaign for a mobile app!http://www.barnraiser.us/projects/fallingfruit-org-mobilize-the-urban-harvestRipe Near Me - "Why not have a site that allows foodies to connect with growers? Wouldn't it be cool if we could get all our fresh food from the local neighbourhood?…” - from Australiahttp://www.ripenear.meA large indoor commercial farms with LED lighting at the AmeriPlex Industrial Park in Indianapolishttp://greensensefarms.com20,000 square foot rooftop garden planned for Brooklyn hotelhttp://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014/05/jetsons-like-design-planned-for-hotel-at-55-wythe-avenue-in-north-williamsburg/Vertical garden house in Tokyohttp://inhabitat.com/ryue-nishiziwas-gorgeous-vertical-garden-house-grows-in-tokyo/ryue-nishizawa-vertical-garden-house-tokyo-japan/Interview with Eric Mandu on aquaponic gardens for as internet-connected resourceshttp://inhabitat.com/interview-eric-mandu-on-turning-aquaponic-gardens-into-an-internet-connected-resource/World’s largest vertical garden in Singaporehttp://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-vertical-garden-at-the-singapore-tree-house-condominium-sets-new-guinness-record/--------------------------July 23, 2014
Fairmount - DIY green roof or garden kit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/239445008/fairmount-living-tilesWorld’s largest indoor farmhttp://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/former-semiconductor-factory-becomes-worlds-largest-indoor-farm.htmlhttp://youtu.be/985rJxlWuWk?list=PLK2LsIp0FxT9uCrMJTzo7zYJiekrQ5gNoAntwerp 24 story tower garden neighborhoodhttp://www.cfmoller.com/g/Residential-tower-in-Antwerp-won-i13350.htmlModular urban farming structurehttp://inhabitat.com/ova-studio-proposes-jenga-like-modular-farming-structure-to-bring-fresh-greens-to-urban-centers/Open Food Network - crowd funded food hub to consumer networkhttps://openfood.com.auChicago’s Green Healthy Neighborhood Planhttp://www.cmap.illinois.gov/programs-and-resources/lta/ghn-chicagoOsaka’s Namba Park’s eight level rooftop gardenshttp://www.jerde.com/featured/place57.htmlBasel, Switzerland's modular aquaponic farming systemhttp://www.urbanfarmers.comhttp://www.iune.zhaw.chSingapore’s floating high-rise farmshttp://www.designboom.com/architecture/forward-thinking-architecture-japa-floating-responsive-agriculture-07-18-2014/Food forest planted in Edmonton, Alberta, Canadahttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-s-first-food-forest-planted-in-the-river-valley-1.2712605Rainwater harvesting vertical garden on historic Barcelona theater (Spanish)http://www.urbanarbolismo.es/blog/?p=2640-------------------------August 27, 2014Montreal’s open source mapping of wild placeshttps://www.facebook.com/wildcitymappingNYC’s urban farming data collection tool kithttp://www.farmingconcrete.org/barn/data-collection-toolkit/Video of the largest rooftop farm, Brooklyn Grange, being built - hat tip to Greg Watsonhttp://nationswell.com/brooklyn-grange-largest-rooftop-farm-world-video/South Korea sky farm - hat tip Gil Friendhttp://www.gizmag.com/aprilli-design-studio-urban-skyfarm/32954/World Expo Milan: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Lifehttp://www.expo2015.org/enhttp://www.usapavilion2015.net - an edible wall of crops31 Days of Urban Agriculture: Kickstarter art project - hat tip Fred Hapgoodhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindsaycurren/31-days-of-urban-agricultureShipping containers as vertical farmshttp://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/shipping-container-repurposed-vertical-urban-farm.htmlSky Farm - 5000 square foot garden at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolishttp://land-collective.com/projects/eskenazi-health-hospital/Vertecology - hanging garden systemhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mark-scott-lavin/the-vertecology-hanging-garden-grow-food-beautifulFarm Box Direct - home delivery of organic produce week by weekhttps://www.farmboxdirect.comFalling Fruit - world map of publicly available fruit for foraginghttp://fallingfruit.org--------------------------------October 21, 2014Vertical garden at the entrance of a Barcelona restaurant - ornamental rather than edible gardenhttp://www.urbanarbolismo.es/blog/?p=2856 [Spanish]Vertical garden designs including an air conditioning and filtering systemhttp://www.unusualgreen.com/vertical-gardens/?lang=enWuhan, China mixed-use development with community gardens designed inhttp://inhabitat.com/wuhan-park-place-lifestyle-project-merges-urban-farming-and-high-density-living-in-china/http://www.5plusdesign.com/projects/?p=8888Tokyo office building has green walls and a working farm - hat tip Helen Snivelyhttp://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/09/12/urban-farming-and-corporate-culture-collide-in-this-tokyo-office-building/World’s tallest vertical gardenhttp://inhabitat.com/the-worlds-tallest-vertical-garden-lives-and-breathes-in-sydney/Hanoi’s houses for treeshttp://www.wired.com/2014/10/clever-idea-creating-houses-built-trees/#slide-id-1579767Chicago’s world’s largest rooftop farm (so far)http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/08/urban-agriculture-grows-into-worlds-largest-rooftop-farm/Hive Inn modular city farm - hat tip inhabitat.comhttp://www.ovastudio.com/works/hive-inn™-city-farmCity Trees: zero net energy high rises for Chinahttp://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-citytrees.htmlMilan, Italy’s “Bosco Verticale” is now completehttp://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/portfolios/bosco-verticale/---------------------------------January 8, 2015
Seoul City Hall’s 7 story indoor green wallhttp://inhabitat.com/7-story-indoor-green-wall-is-as-an-enormous-air-filter-for-solar-powered-seoul-city-hall/Garden bridge over the Thames?http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21632630-crossing-thamesJellyfish barge, a floating gardenhttp://www.studiomobile.org/Jellyfish-BargePlantui soil-free indoor “smart” garden with an intelligent light system and automatic watering pumphttp://plantui.com/products-plants/smart-gardens/Lettuce Evolve hydroponic, aquaponic, or soil garden structurehttp://lettuceevolve.comEcofarm starter aquaponics growing systemhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1880042535/ecofarm-grow-fresh-food-with-your-own-mini-ecosystJewel Changi airport for Singapore, an architectural biome from Moshe Safdiehttp://www.msafdie.com/#/projects/projectjewelLargest indoor living wallhttp://www.habitathorticulture.com/gallery/foundry-square-iii/#1Foundation for Polish Science's green wallhttp://faab.pl/projekty/siedziba_fundacji_na_rzecz_nauki_polskiej__k2_131.html?lang=enDaisy smart phone plant care apphttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalspring/give-your-indoor-plants-a-voice-to-stay-healthyAgora Tower garden building for Taipei, Taiwanhttp://menis.es/agora-garden-luxury-condominium/"The Harvesting Station is an urban device designed to activate the interstitial spaces of the city and turn them productive. It can grow up to 200 plants in four square meters by keeping them protected from animals and air pollution."http://www.conceptualdevices.com/2014/12/harvesting-station-a-reclaiming-device-for-the-interstitial-spaces-of-the-city/------------------------------February 18, 2015
Grove Labs - home aquaponics start-up from two MIT gradshttps://grovelabs.io"Apitronics is an open platform for farm data collection. Suited to the outdoors, our system of connected sensors helps farmers monitor environmental conditions, which allows them to make more informed management decisions."http://www.apitronics.comFreight Farms - "The Leafy Green Machine is a complete farm-to-table system using an insulated shipping container outfitted with vertical hydroponics, high efficiency LED lights, and an automated climate control system."http://freightfarms.com/Vincent Callebaut's Smart City design for Paris is a series of growing walled towers http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-parissmartcity2050.htmlRenaissance Farms aquaponics farm in a container - global open source farming with each pound sold matched with a pound to the food bankhttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/renaissance-farms-1-for-1-opensource-aquaponicsMasdar integrated seawater biofuel and agriculture systemhttp://www.masdar.ac.ae/media-section/news/item/6448-sustainable-bioenergy-research-consortium-awards-contract-to-construct-innovative-agriculture-and-energy-pilot-project-at-masdar-cityVietnamese office complex with interwoven greenspaceshttp://www.hpa.vn/srdp--iwmc-headquarters_pr113.aspxAqua Design Group's green wallshttp://aquadesigngroup.com/green/London Skygardenhttp://skygarden.london/sky-gardenBarnraiser - agricultural crowdfunding sitehttps://www.barnraiser.usFlying Garden Tower for Frankfurt Germanyhttp://www.coop-himmelblau.at/architecture/projects/flying-garden-tower/Workplace Gardens - prospective and actualhttp://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/office-future-will-have-you-climbing-walls.htmlRoot - smart countertop gardenhttps://www.facebook.com/ohnekafarmshttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/root-a-smart-countertop-gardening-systemSwedish terrace townhouses with rooftop parkhttp://www.utopia.se/en/projects/hornsbruksgatan------------------------------March 15, 2015Robotic Urban Farm System (RUFS)http://www.bltrobotics.com/farm.phpGreen balcony pathwayhttp://inhabitat.com/suspended-green-pathway-is-an-unexpected-alternative-to-a-balcony/Parisian block rehab with hanging gardenshttp://www.mvrdv.nl/news/Gaite_Montparnasse/650 foot long green roof for a Parisian labhttp://www.pargade.com/index.php/fr/les-projets/pole-de-recherche-scientifique-et-technique-de-paris-est/16Brooklyn Cooperative alternative food production and consumption sites in an alternative supermarket proposal for Admiral's Rowhttp://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-35171http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/brooklyn-super-food.htmlFuture Growing - vertical aeroponic food farms utilizing patented Tower Garden® technologyhttps://futuregrowing.wordpress.comHong Kong farmers question high tech agricultural parkhttp://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1732187/farmers-question-plan-hi-tech-agricultural-park-hong-kongJackson Hole, Wyoming Vertical Greenhousehttp://www.verticalharvestjackson.com/the-greenhouse/NYC Javits Center green roofhttp://inhabitat.com/nyc/javits-centers-massive-green-roof-becomes-an-urban-bird-oasis/#more-92855Slideshow on green roofs and living walls into fully living buildingshttp://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-architecture/green-roofs-living-walls-and-vertical-farms-are-all-morphing-living-green-buildings/Luciano Pia's 25 Verde treehouse apartments in Turin, Italyhttp://www.lucianopia.it/opere-e-progetti/2007-2012-25-green-25-verde/http://divisare.com/projects/283279-Luciano-Pia-25-VerdeNewark NJ largest (so far) vertical farm projecthttp://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-indoor-vertical-farm-will-produce-2-million-pounds-of-soil-free-food-in-newark/http://aerofarms.com--------------------------------April 4, 2015Tokyo vertical garden househttp://inhabitat.com/ryue-nishiziwas-gorgeous-vertical-garden-house-grows-in-tokyo/ryue-nishizawa-vertical-garden-house-tokyo-japan-3/?extend=1Senegal, Dakar's urban agriculture - 45% of the food supplyhttp://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/11/26/15343"PlantLab could grow fruit and vegetables for the entire world in a space smaller than Holland"http://www.plantlab.nlEpiphytic plants on skyscrapers to clean the air - Melbourne http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/extreme-gardening-on-the-92nd-floor-of-the-eureka-tower-20150323-1m45sm.htmlLufa Farms, Montreal's original rooftop farmhttp://globalnews.ca/news/1901306/lufa-farms-takes-gardening-to-a-whole-new-level/Urban/rural food study of NYC Greenmarket coming from Cornellhttp://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/20/farmers-markets-helping-rural-communitiesChinese urban farminghttp://www.designboom.com:8080/architecture/new-urban-farming-in-china-3-22-2015/Popup forest for Times Square Kickstarterhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/popupforest/build-a-popup-forest-in-times-square-nycUrban vineyard in Clevelandhttp://www.growingproduce.com/fruits/grapes/from-riots-to-vineyard-a-story-of-urban-revival/MA Food Planhttp://www.mafoodplan.org/#homeBerlin aquaponics farmhttp://agri.eu/the-largest-european-urban-aquaponics-farm-openned-in-berlin-news6442.htmlSeattle's City Fruit harvests nearly 14 tons of unused fruit from urban plantingshttp://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/city-fruit-working-preserve-urban-fruit-trees-and-increase-amount-fruit-harvested-them.htmlChicken cabinethttp://www.core77.com/posts/35613/Ton-Mattons-Chicken-CabinetWendorf Academy - German urban/rural ag school and laboratoryhttp://www.werkstattwendorf.de/WW/academy/academy.htmlDrought farming: Intertribal Gatherings sharing traditional ecological knowledge of Colorado Plateau in face of climate changehttp://www.grandcanyontrust.org/intertribal-gatherings ----------------------------May 20, 2015The Food Keeper contains food safety and storage advice to help you maintain freshness and quality of foods - smart phone app and hardcopyhttp://www.fmi.org/industry-topics/consumer-affairs/food-keeper-food-storage-databaseVertical farm in Seoul, South Koreahttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/686804.htmlAir Orchard in Lima, Peru - water harvesting billboard farmhttp://www.fastcoexist.com/3044893/this-water-harvesting-billboard-doubles-as-an-urban-farmChicago's fruit farmhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-urban-fruit-farm-chicago-met-20150415-story.htmlSeoul city government spending 46 million U.S. dollars to establish 18-hundred vegetable gardens within a ten-minute walking distance from all homes by 2018http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=178734FAO's urban agriculture programhttp://www.fao.org/urban-agriculture/en/Urban Skyfarmhttp://www.lostateminor.com/2015/05/08/wow-this-stunning-high-rise-hydroponic-farm-has-been-designed-for-big-cities-across-the-globe/Mobile garden in MIlanhttp://www.a4a.it/installazioni-eventi/why-not-in-the-gardenHabitat 67 at 50 - Moshe Safdie's Montreal modular apartments with gardenshttp://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/13/habitat-67-montreal-expo-moshe-safdie-history-cities-50-buildings-day-35Vertical farming in Detroithttp://www.elkharttruth.com/news/michigan/2015/05/10/Vertical-farming-spouts-in-Detroit-s-Brightmoor-district.htmlFarmers Business Network - an idea that can be applied to urban agriculture too?http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/05/19/google_of_agriculture_farmers_business_ventures_uses_big_data_to_empower.html------------------------------------June 23, 2015Shopping mall Ecotopia for China?http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-woodenorchids.htmlSpirulina furniture http://www.treehugger.com/eco-friendly-furniture/algal-spirulina-furniture-jacob-douenias-ethan-frier.htmlSeedstock - "Seedstock is committed to working with government agencies, municipalities and all public sector stakeholders to insure the development of economically viable and robust local food systems across the country."http://seedstock.comUniversity of the District of Columbia, the first explicitly urban land grant collegehttp://blogs.usda.gov/2015/06/11/bringing-the-farm-to-the-city-how-a-local-land-grant-university-is-supporting-a-different-kind-of-agriculture/Six year study show contaminated urban soils are safe for gardeninghttp://www.newswise.com/articles/with-proper-care-contaminated-urban-soils-are-safe-for-gardening-study-findsUrban Farming Is Booming in the US, but What Does It Really Yield?http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/06/13/urban-farming-is-booming-in-the-us-but-what-does-it-really-yield/Urban Homesteader - upcoming Web serieshttp://www.theurbanhomesteader.comPre-teen changes lawn for garden and feeds communityhttp://ecowatch.com/2015/06/12/natures-path-gardens-for-good/Brooklyn green roofed apartmenthttp://www.oda-architecture.com/projects/10-montieth-street-brooklyn-nyDIY green roof in the West Village of Manhattanhttp://www.core77.com/posts/38259/A-Frontier-Cabin-With-Yard-Hidden-on-a-Manhattan-RooftopVegetal citieshttp://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/vegetal-cities-luc-schuiten.htmlClimate Hope City: The Guardian designs an ecological future in Minecrafthttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/keep-it-in-the-ground-blog/2015/jun/12/climate-hope-city-how-minecraft-can-tell-the-story-of-climate-change?CMP=dis_3167