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A hydroponic grow box with everything you need to get started growing in your own home. Hand made in Sweden with Scandinavian design.
We started from scratch to find a way to build a food safe, simple and most of all beautiful grow box. Every grow box is handmade in Sweden using locally sourced wood, and then given a finish to make it withstand water. The grow box fits four plants and measures 60cm x 14,5cm x 15cm. It’s slim Scandinavian design works perfectly on your windowsill.
November 9, 2014 Comments Off
With the “moderate cost” of food for the average 19 to 50-year-old man in the U.S. at $295.90 per-month, according to the USDA, why wouldn’t you want to feed yourself from the land where you’re already paying to live?
By Ilyce Glink
November 1, 2014
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen practice what they call “radical home ec.” Their Los Angeles home, which is often featured on their homesteading blog Root Simple, features a 1/12th-acre lot with bee hives, a chicken coop, fruit trees, vegetables, a rain barrel, a twig-burning stove, a solar dehydrator and compost bins.
November 8, 2014 Comments Off
Urban Farming Guys are using a cave to turn up to 10,000 pounds of compostables into organic fertilizer every month, through the miracle of worm castings!
By Diane Desenberg
June 25, 2014
Candy says that in its fourth year, the aquaponics system has far surpassed their original production goal of 1000 pounds of protein; they are probably closing in on 2000 pounds. They have improved on their original design. They now help others get off the ground with the Barrelponics system.
November 5, 2014 Comments Off
2 Hour Presentation By Local City Farmers
Oct 1, 2014
Local agriculturists discuss growing food in Chicago’s urban environment at this event hosted by Windy City Sustainability. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
October 11, 2014 Comments Off
Ever dream of chucking it all for the simple life? Read this first.
By Jesse Hirsch
September 15, 2014
Many small farms take in apprentices or interns (a largely semantic distinction) for a growing season. According to Thistlethwaite, this is an all but mandatory step in your farm journey. And not just for one season. She suggests apprenticing for three to four years before you even consider starting your own farm. This will not only provide a basic knowledge base, but also ensure that farming is something you enjoy. “[Apprenticing] is gut check time,” she says. “It gives you the chance to ask yourself: ‘Is this really who I am?’”
September 17, 2014 Comments Off
This empty lot at 433 Prairie Ave. in Providence will soon hold a greenhouse that will produce fresh produce for the surrounding community. The Lots of Hope program, which began last year with support from the Rhode Island Foundation, has already resulted in the creation of two farms. Photo by Kris Craig/The Providence Journal.
“This new greenhouse will be a place where neighbors of all ages can come to learn and work together to build a more sustainable city.”
By Richard Salit
Aug 19, 2014
The city has recently had success taking empty urban lots and turning them into productive vegetable gardens. Now city officials want to go a step further when their next “Lots of Hope” project turns vacant space into a greenhouse.
The greenhouse, to be built this fall on a small lot at 433 Prairie Ave., is intended to provide fresh, healthy food for the surrounding community. Low-cost leases will help farmers succeed and the produce will be made available to school food service vendors, which are required to purchase 15 percent of their food locally.
September 16, 2014 Comments Off
Starting Sept. 8, owners of empty lots could save thousands of dollars a year in property taxes in exchange for allowing their land to be used for agriculture for five years or more.
By Tara Duggan
August 31, 2014
“I have heard from literally hundreds of residents who would like to have the opportunity to farm, but the waiting lists for a lot of our community gardens are over two years long,” said Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who wrote the local legislation. “There is simply not enough space.”
This law could change that.
September 2, 2014 Comments Off
30 children and young people with disabilities looked after animals at Brooks Farm
By Natalie Glanvill
This is Local London
19th August 2014
A group of young volunteers, which has helped out at a city farm for 30 years, will not be allowed to work there after it changed hands, it has emerged.
The ‘Farm Family’, which includes about 30 children and young people with disabilities, or those at risk of getting involved in crime, looked after animals at Brooks Farm in Skeltons Lane Park, Leyton, when it was managed by Waltham Forest council.
August 26, 2014 Comments Off
Affecting urban areas, ecosystems, and agriculture.
By Pacific Institute
60% of the state is experiencing exceptional drought – the most severe drought category. – and it is only getting worse since it will be another 2-3 months before the rainy season.
Since January 2014, 3800 wildfires have burned 44,000 acres in California, compared to an average of 2,800 wildfires burning 35,200 acres on average.
Currently, more than 58% of the state is now considered to be in exceptional drought, up from 37% last week.
August 11, 2014 Comments Off
“We sell to Whole Foods, whose regional headquarters is in Munster, Ind. Right now, we sell primarily to wholesale resellers and are looking at servicing select restaurants.”
By Melissa Wiley
July 24, 2014
Green Sense Farms, which opened last May in Portage, Ind., grows herbs, micro- and leafy greens 22 hours a day, 365 days year, in 25-foot-tall carousels via light recipes powered by 7,000 LEDs courtesy of Royal Philips, a Dutch technology firm. The LEDs, which emit less heat than traditional fluorescent lights, allow Colangelo and team to plant crops in closer proximity, thereby harvesting more pounds of produce per square foot and excising both sun and soil as variables.
August 1, 2014 Comments Off
One day be one of the country’s largest urban farms
By Diana Nelson Jones
July 14, 2014
The Hilltop Alliance is working with Grow Pittsburgh, the Penn State Cooperative Extension and the Allegheny Land Trust to make that happen. The alliance is a nonprofit umbrella whose staff organizes projects with advocates from organizations in nine southern neighborhoods.
The St. Clair Village public housing site, which contained 465 units at its peak, was fully demolished by 2010. What’s left of the neighborhood — 209 people in privately owned homes — needs everything a farm would provide: fresh food, a chance for enterprise, and youth training and education.
July 24, 2014 Comments Off
Matt Post holds his daughter, Morgan, 9 months, on the back of Daisy the goat in the backyard of their home in Lakewood. City Council passed an ordinance allowing backyard chickens and goats one year ago. (Seth McConnell, YourHub)
Since April 2013, the city has issued 52 permits for hens, eight for goats, seven for ducks and 26 for beekeeping on residential lots 6,000 square feet or smaller.
By Austin Briggs
From April 2013 through June 2014, there have been five complaints on bees, 20 for chickens and one on dwarf goats.
“There has not been an uptick in complaints,” said city planner Paul Rice.
“I’ve been surprised, but there has yet to be any complaints in my ward,” Councilman Paul agreed.
July 24, 2014 Comments Off
In backyards and on once-barren city lots, local growers produce crops and livestock.
By Martha M. Hamilton
for National Geographic
May 18, 2014
A new wave of urban agriculture is flourishing because it benefits consumers concerned about sustainably grown food as well as cities with land to spare. It started in 2008, fueled both by economic stress and concerns about nutrition, childhood obesity, and diabetes highlighted by First Lady Michelle Obama.
May 19, 2014 Comments Off
May 2, 2014
The Level Hotel being developed by Zelig Weiss at 55 Wythe Avenue in North Williamsburg will look like a Jetsons style tower above a narrow base with a well lit half block of shops below. The rendering appeared on a website of the Shopping Center Group, whose SCG-Retail is leasing out the commercial space in the as-yet-unbuilt complex.
The complex will include a 183-room luxury hotel and the whole thing, including retail and office space, will be 320,000 square feet, as previously reported. The site is located between North 12th and North 13th streets. SCG-Retail is leasing 40,000 square feet of retail, including 20,000 square feet on the ground floor with ceilings 18 to 23 feet high. There will also be a 20,000 square foot rooftop farm that will be open to the public. The whole shebang is supposed to be completed this year, according to the retail listing flyer. We suspect that timetable has changed.
May 14, 2014 Comments Off
Urban farming meets plankton. Walls might be the next frontier.
By Adele Peters
Apr 28, 2014
“Micro-organisms like algae are like bacteria–it’s one of those things that in our culture people try to get rid of,” Griffa says. “But algae offer incredible potential because of their very intense photosynthetic activity.” Algae take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen while growing. Compared to a tree, micro-algae are about 150 to 200 times more efficient at sucking carbon out of the air.
May 11, 2014 Comments Off