Thursday, December 24, 2015

City Agriculture - December 24, 2015 - Happy Merry New and Bah Humbug Edition

Homefarm - a conceptual proposal for the next generation of urban retirement housing. It presents a living and farming typology for Singapore (or elsewhere) that combines apartments and facilities for seniors with vertical urban farming
http://www.sparkarchitects.com/work/homefarm#1

Urban Algae Folly designed by ecoLogicStudio is an interactive pavilion integrating living micro-algal cultures, a built example of architecture's bio-digital future. Microalgae, in this instance Spirulina, are exceptional photosynthetic machines; they contain nutrients that are fundamental to the human body, such as minerals and vegetable proteins; microalgae also oxygenate the air and can absorb CO2 from the urban atmosphere ten times more effectively than large trees.
http://www.ecologicstudio.com/v2/project.php?idcat=3&idsubcat=71&idproj=147

Tinyfield Roofhop Farm grows organic hops for craft breweries in Brooklyn, NY
http://tinyfield.farm

Gangster gardeners in South LA
http://www.ryot.org/trailer-documentary-follows-gangster-gardeners-as-they-beautify-one-of-americas-most-dangerous-neighborhoods/945185

Washington DC building mobile urban farms
http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/15/11/13/are_urban_farms_a_good_use_of_space_in_dc

From Mumbai:  Urban Farming & Gardening Goes Online With ‘Ugaoo.com’ 
http://businessworld.in/article/Urban-Farming-Gardening-Goes-Online-With-Ugaoo-com-/15-12-2015-89392/

Flat pack pop up urban garden
http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/tech/flat-packed-gardens-pop-up-for-urban-farming/

Detroit urban ag startup growing insects
http://www.modeldmedia.com/startupnews/detroitentodetroit102715.aspx

Urban farming data collection toolkit, now in use in over 40 cities
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/community-garden-database-urban-farming-toolkit

Renting chickens and bees
http://www.timescolonist.com/business/urban-farm-popularity-spawns-rentals-of-chickens-bee-hives-1.2113841

UrbanFarmers' 14,000 square-foot urban rooftop farm in The Hague will be the largest in Europe
http://www.greenhousegrower.com/structures-equipment/europes-largest-rooftop-farm-underway-scheduled-to-open-in-january/

American Society of Landscape Architects on The Edible City
https://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/vid_urbanag.html