sleikas:

Victory!!! First homegrown potatoes!

knowurbanis:

COMMUNITY GARDENS // THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT 

knowurbanis:

URBAN AGRICULTURE // IN THE SHADOW OF CHICAGO 

knowurbanis:

COMMUNITY GARDEN // THE RE-BIRTH OF A NEIGHBORHOOD 

yummybyyemi:

Jon is harvesting water containing fish poop from our swirl tank, which collects solid waste from the fish tank so that our plant roots don’t get clogged with the waste. This water is super rich in nutrients and will be used to water our seedling and plants in my outdoor garden.

nybg:

Are These the Tiniest Microfarms of them All? — New York City Artist Grows Food Inside Furniture

Jenna Spevack’s home gardening designs fall in range of unconventional. Open a small travel case in her living room and you’ll find yourself staring at a plush crop of parsley, for example. But her ideas on what can make for a miniature “farm plot” of microgreens are changing the outlook of the average apartment agriculturist. No longer is the fire escape the most viable option for the home gardener in the city.

With Spevack’s creative sub-irrigation system in place, steamer trunks and bookshelves become functional greenhouses. Now she’s pushing the idea forward not only as a means of spreading the benefits of growing your own food, but of supporting urban ag’ nonprofits in and around New York City. Click through to the full story for info on Jenna’s charitable greens project, as well as the Kickstarter she’s hosting which might land you a growing system of your own. —MN

thecreatorsproject:

Plantagon: Sweden’s vertical greenhouse.

timelightbox:

Earlier this year, Emily Schiffer received support from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund. The photographer is using the grant to explore the crisis of food security in Chicagoland. See more here. 

Shows what you can achieve with such a small space -and this clearly doesn’t receive that much light.

Nature will find a way - you just need to give it a start.

plantedcity:

Here’s a shot of my worm compost bins. With Fall here now I’m collecting leaves to keep a balance of greens and browns necessary to keep the worms happy and producing worm tea, an organic liquid fertilizer, and rich compost. I got the bins, complete with worms, through a program promoted by the city a couple of years ago. 

If you’re looking to learn more about worm composting Mary Applehof’s book, ‘Worms Eat My Garbage:  How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System’, and the ‘City Farmer’ website are great places to start.