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.

The Water Bottle Garden

Amber

The more people play around with passive hydroponics, the more cool ideas and nifty products become available. For some, the idea of arranging dissected Coke bottles in the windowsill falls short of their sense of home… venturing into what should be reserved for the garage or a shed out back. The folks at Petomato have…

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8 Ways to Grow In Coke Bottles

Growing plants in empty 2-liter soft drink (PET) bottles is totally possible! Milk jugs and other types of large food-grade plastic bottles have a variety of gardening uses too. Use them for several different types of hydroponics systems or in more traditional forms of container growing. The cost certainly can’t be beaten. Depending on where…
December 14, 2013
Tammy Clayton

The Repurposed Hydro Micro Farm

Can you find the urban farm in this picture? If not, maybe you haven’t got your imagination turned up high enough yet. It’s there. At least it is now, and its one of those really crazy and super inspirational stories. Here’s the scenario. You are now the proud owner of a fixer upper house bought…
August 16, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Urban Farm Stores: Just Picked Freshness

Rather than buying fresh organic greens and produce that has been separated from the plant for hours already, perhaps even days, people will be in love with picking it themselves or watching you harvest it for them. A new urban farm concept could be coming to a neighborhood near you.  Its the brainchild of the…
March 12, 2013
Tammy Clayton