Urban Gardening

Short on space? No problem! Anyone can grow their own food, herbs, and flowers, no matter where they live. Follow our tips and tricks to start your urban garden.

Kimbal Musk’s Urban Farming School Expands

Tammy Clayton

It’s only been a year since Kimbal Musk announced the launch of Square Roots, a unique urban farming school that combines learning both the hydroponic growing side and the business side that creates customers and income. Even if real food is the new internet, as Musk is fond of saying, a successful urban grower is…

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Chinampas: Urban Farming In Mexico City

They’ve been there since long before the day Cortes got his first glimpse the Aztec Empire in 1519. The chinampas have come full circle, from feeding the city’s population to ruin, and finally, restoration brings urban farming and local food back to Mexico City. It’s been a long, bumpy ride. The worst of which appears…
February 24, 2017
Tammy Clayton

Rooftop Hydroponic Farms in Tel Aviv, Israel

Finding the only rooftop hydroponic farming company in the heart of Tel Aviv won’t be easy from the street. It’s hiding on top a mountain of concrete known as the Dizengof Center, a massive shopping mall surrounded by high rises, busy streets, and pedestrians. But it’s up there, and churning out 10,000 heads of lettuce…
December 31, 2016
Callie

Wheat: Urban Farming Grains

It wouldn’t make much sense to attempt growing wheat in tiny plots scattered all over the city. However, roof top space makes urban farming grains a concept worth considering. It grew beautifully on top of a building in Chicago, proving that you can increase the diversity of locally grown crops quite a bit. Not to…
October 7, 2016
Amber

Kimbal Musk: Urban Farm Accelorator

The launch of Square Roots, an urban farm incubator project, was announced by Kimbal Musk on Tuesday.  His latest goal? To help thousands of new urban farm startups come to life across the U.S. The mission? Teaching young entrepreneurs indoor farming and the local food business through hands-on education. Naturally, accomplishing this means you have to start an urban farm.…
August 27, 2016
Amber

Super Green Rooftop Farm

Sustainable urban farming hits the roof – literally, and on several levels. A rooftop farm, Sky Vegetables, in the low income food desert known as the South Bronx is paving the way to greener inner city neighborhoods everywhere. It’s a farm that residents will no doubt look up to for multiple reasons, the most obvious being that…
July 5, 2016
Tammy Clayton