Monday, September 25, 2017

City Agriculture - September 25, 2017

Newtown Creek Wildflower Roof - another green roof grows in Brooklyn

Growing Local:  A Community Guide to Planning for Agriculture and Food Systems - because city agriculture requires a community food system
http://www.farmlandinfo.org/growing-local-community-guide-planning-agriculture-and-food-systems
hat tip to Julia Freedgood, one of the authors and an old friend

Davenport, Iowa grocery store grows greens in a vertical garden onsite

Syrians under siege grow mushrooms to feed themselves

Ho Chi Minh City 10 story office tower designed with space for trees

Algae Dome

Mushroom growing under solar panels in Japan

Grow Dat Youth Farm - New Orleans turns 2 acres of City Park’s former golf course into a farm


23-acre Hilltop Urban Farm for Pittsburgh, PA, largest urban farmed in the USA

Exhale, living chandelier which purifies air 

Eden-ISS - how to grow produce in Antarctica or space