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.

Hydroponic Plots for Rent

Tammy Clayton

Some call it a plot, others an allotment, but they’re seasonal and soil-based. Why not have indoor hydroponic plots for rent where land-lacking urbanites with limited space in their homes can grow their own year around? It’s not as crazy an idea as you might first suspect. There’s a company in Tokyo who has been…

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Edible Art: Aeroponic Wall Garden

Define yourself as having great taste in art! After all, fresh herbs snipped from your indoor wall garden steps from the cutting board is bound to give whatever you’re cooking flavor that’s hard to come by. Not to mention being packed full of way more nutritional benefits than that stuff they sell as fresh herbs…
May 20, 2016
Callie

Venezuela’s Urban Gardens

Food shortages and political turmoil are nothing new in Venezuela. It’s a country that imports most of it’s food, despite being rich in highly productive agricultural land. In an attempt to establish food sovereignty, and feed the masses coagulated in the cities, urban gardens provided a probable solution for the last two presidents. Digging Up…
March 5, 2016
Callie

Hydroponic News Items

Can you find the urban farm in that photo? It’s right there in the center. Just one of the interesting items that surfaced this week. Sometimes, there’s nothing newsworthy in the world of hydroponic growing, and other times we’re overrun with things worth noting. This is one of those times, that sticking to one thing…
February 27, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Milk Crate Urban Farming

There are a number of reasons that portable urban farming is a smart move, but often the containers chosen require heavy machinery and big trucks to lift and transport. That’s all fine and dandy for urban growers who have instant access to such equipment, or the funding to rent them. For most startup urban farmers,…
January 2, 2016
Amber

Hydroponics for Small Apartments

Just because you live in a shoe box doesn’t mean that you can’t grow delicious food that provides a large supplement to your family’s normal diet. While it may be easier to have the expansive and rich soil of farmland in the Great Plains, you can easily mimic the process of growing food in only a four feet…
December 21, 2015
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