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 […]
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 […]
Cloud Farming Comes to Indoor Gardens
Foolproof indoor farming debuted at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. A plug and play smart hydroponic garden design that is fully automated, expandable, packed with high tech goodies, and comes in 3 different models to fit different growing needs. Word is that this brings professional farming in a controlled environment into the hands of anyone. […]
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, […]
Growtown: Detroit’s Urban Farming Legacy
It’s the opposite of the blues, and driven by a power that has nothing to do with engines. Motown has come full circle, the birthplace of the urban farming for food desert relief returns to it’s roots in a really big way. There’s a really massive farm under development in the heart of the city – the next step in Detroit’s […]
Open Source Urban Farming
Forward thinking urban agriculture – better than remote control and SMS reminders. Beyond the DIY hydroponic system, and the reclaimed materials urban garden planter – there are those who see how much the world needs food produced with less trial and error. Fresh fruits and veggies that are easier to grow thanks to computers and robotics. […]
Serious LED Grow Lighting
For years Phillips Lighting has been working with indoor urban farms and greenhouses to perfect their grow lighting – be it total lighting inside a warehouse, or light assistance in the winter greenhouse. They’ve learned what you can and cannot do under LED grow lights, and that with the right light recipe you can make fruit, vegetable, and flowering plants […]
Major League Rooftop Farms
Fenway Park is the latest baseball stadium to get into offering locally grown fresh produce to fans attending games, and the team from onsite gardens or rooftop farms. However, Fenway Farms atop the Boston Red Sox stadium is the largest to date. They’ve got 5,000 square feet dedicated to growing organic herbs, greens, and vegetables […]
London’s 1st Commercial Aquaponic Farm
It’s also a first for all of the United Kingdom. An exciting milestone for Kate Hofman and Tom Webster at GrowUp Box, who have finally had their dream come to fruit. After a couple years of growing tilapia and veg in a traveling shipping container with a greenhouse on the roof, the team has the […]
The Plant Reinvents The Urban Farm
There’s something amazing quietly growing on the Southwest side of Chicago, an unprecedented urban farming initiative known as, The Plant. It was hard to decide what category to put this post in, because John Edel’s vision and progress could fit in several here on Garden Culture, but since they describe themselves as a ‘vertical farm’ […]
Uprooted Urban Farm Deeded Land
No one is too surprised when news of urban gardeners being tossed off the ground they work, disappointed perhaps, but never shocked. But here’s a tale of urban farmers getting the boot with a silver lining. For about 30 years the vacant land under heavy air traffic at St. Louis International Airport in Kinloch, Missouri […]
Monsanto’s Seed Monopoly Expanding
The ball lands in tomatoland again, but this is a totally different development than Monsanto’s fraudulent claim on the patent application for a seed bank tomato variety earlier this summer. Were you surprised that they tampered with the paperwork necessary to file for a patent? Shame on you. But that’s old news… from June. This […]