City Agriculture - May 13, 2026

Automated hydroponic lettuce growing in China
https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/2035321762620035560

Raising shrimp indoors
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/can-controlled-environments-fix-the-worlds-favorite-seafood

Gaviotas, a long-standing sustainable village
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260331-a-1960s-green-utopia-tried-to-reinvent-the-world
Book: Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/gaviotas/

The big benefits of pocket gardens
https://grist.org/cities/pocket-gardens-the-tiny-urban-oases-with-surprisingly-big-benefits/
Editorial Comment: Pocket gardens and guerrilla gardens can be powerful. There are many ways to make the cities green and even the smallest efforts help.

Feeding cities: Is it time for greater municipal intervention in food access in the United States?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275126002994

Dutch rain fences
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/rain-fences-dutch-homes-climate-resilient

Singapore’s tallest hydroponic farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54eZGgwlcAs

A Colombian neighborhood plans for climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/17/rainwater-harvesting-and-eco-gardens-how-one-colombian-neighbourhood-helped-a-whole-city-plan-for-climate-change

Dune Forest - transforming a sand dune into a food forest in 7 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLJUsU7ieEg
Editorial Comment: A desert permaculture installation from a couple of decades ago
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2007/06/you-can-fix-all-worlds-problems-in.html

Largest agrivoltaic trial in the world
https://www.tse.energy/en/group/experimentation

Dubai center growing “future-proof” food in the desert
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2021/9/2/this-center-in-dubai-is-growing-future-proof-food-in-the-desert

Agri-Energy: Growing Power, Growing Food by Rebekah Pierce
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781642833713/agri-energy

City Agriculture - March 21, 2026

SolaRoof Greenhouse/Shelter in Action
https://pyrapod.com/

Vietnamese self-irrigating vertical farming towers
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/m-k-harikumar-ba7a5a60_vertical-self-sustaining-and-quietly-efficient-activity-7420487869024243712-lMI9/

Angels of the Sertão - ecological restoration in Brazil
https://www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/2025/10/13/angels-of-backlands-how-traditional-knowledge-is-saving-forgotten-lands/
hat tip to https://circle.4ward.earth

Ecosystem Restoration Communities
https://www.ecosystemrestorationcommunities.org/

Vertical agriculture in Barbados
https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9781359/we-are-training-local-farmers-and-schools-bringing-vertical-farming-technology-into-education/
hat tip to https://www.agritecture.com/blog/transforming-caribbean-food-security-through-controlled-environment-agritecture

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm
https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/

Nurturing Food Justice: Expansive and Intersectional VisionsOpen Access Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Julian Agyeman
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6088/Nurturing-Food-JusticeExpansive-and-Intersectional

The Important Role That Black Communities Play In Addressing Climate Change
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/23/the-important-role-that-black-communities-play-in-addressing-climate-change/

Regenerative Food Systems in Times of Collapse
https://substack.com/home/post/p-188490371

Hydroponics in Antarctica
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-28/antarctic-garden-yields-big-haul-of-fresh-produce/106385768
hat tip to https://slrpnk.net/

Farm to table in Atlanta, GA
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0n63c5m/why-farm-to-table-isn-t-just-a-trend-in-atlanta

Growing bananas in the world’s largest urban forest
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/20/agriculture-of-life-the-rio-families-growing-bananas-to-protect-the-worlds-largest-urban-forest

City Agriculture - January 20, 2026

Cows may safely graze under solar?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112025/cattle-solar-grazing/
or https://archive.ph/6GBJ7

American Solar Grazing Association
https://solargrazing.org/

USAmerican Agrivoltaic Census Report
https://openei.org/wiki/InSPIRE/Agrivoltaics_Map
Solar Grazing Census Report
https://solargrazing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ASGA-CensusReport2024.pdf

How urban farms can make cities more livable and help feed America
https://grist.org/cities/how-urban-farms-can-make-cities-more-livable-and-help-feed-america/

Italy is funding 2 GW of agrivoltaics integrating solar energy production with agriculture
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/12/italy-awards-2-5-gw-in-first-agrivoltaic-tender-backed-by-eu-funds/

UK plans a “forest city"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/23/how-ambitious-forest-city-plan-for-england-could-become-a-reality

Floating islands for Copenhagen’s harbor
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/04/15/marshall-blecher-studio-fokstrot-floating-copenhagen-islands/

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts

Legal rights for Amazonian bees, a foundational species
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/29/stingless-bees-from-the-amazon-granted-legal-rights-in-world-first

Dutch engineers develop bricks which grow moss to absorb CO2, encourage the proliferation of biodiversity, and provide good insulation
https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/auke-bleij-wants-cities-to-breathe-through-moss-covered-facades

Planning program to optimize agrivoltaics migrates from research to commerce
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/29/agrivoltaic-company-okovate-acquires-stanford-university-carnegie-mellon-tech-startup/

Drones can plant 100,000 mangroves in one day and, perhaps, reseed sea grass beds (up to 35x the CO2 uptake of trees) and coral reefs
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/01/05/100000-mangrove-trees-planted-in-one-day/