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.

Wheat: Urban Farming Grains

Amber

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…

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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

Hydroponic Plots for Rent

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…
May 27, 2016
Tammy Clayton

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