Sentences with phrase «of urban farming»

With more and more people wanting a piece of the urban farming pie, more options for making it happen are starting to become available.

This may very well be the future of urban farming, or at least one piece of the puzzle.

Make a salad for lunch using leafy greens grown in a local version of an urban farm with closed - loop irrigation, such as Singapore's vertical urban farm Sky Greens.

The younger Musk announced Tuesday the opening of urban farming accelerator Square Roots this fall.

The company may be a natural outgrowth of the urban farm - to - table movement, much celebrated in the borough.

David Olivier, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, on why social networks are a key spinoff of urban farming

The Center for American Progress released an article about the benefits of urban farms today.

[Slideshow: These photos by Adi Talwar are from the last stop of the Urban Farm Tour at Rincon Criollo, 156th Street and Brook Avenue.

The film has become a symbol of the subversive possibilities of urban farming.

The intervention and integration of urban farming continues in spirit in New York in community gardens tucked between buildings, rooftops and the NYC West side High Line plantings of echinacea, alliums and salvias.»

We got a sneak peek at Wallpaper * magazine's Farm Project feature a few months back; they were planning to dedicate an entire issue to the notion of urban farming, and some examples have made their way to the website.

Not only are they taking the place of more energy - hogging light bulbs every where you look, but they're also at the core of an urban farming revolution and, now, they could help prevent the spread of deadly diseases like malaria.

Vertical farms, like other types of urban farming, aim to provide fresh produce to city dwellers.

The literature dealing with marketing of products of urban farming mainly deals with marketing of vegetables grown in the periurban area of the cities.

Begin a program of greater densification in cities built around car - free neighbourhoods, and a massive program of urban farming with citizen gardens, orchards of fruit and nut trees on streets.

When you were calculating how many hives an area could support, did you take into account the recent rising popularity of urban farming, community gardens, and locally grown food?

On Friday I posted about Edible City the Movie, a documentary that explores the concepts of food security, justice and sustainability through the lens of the urban farming movement.

Though not shying away from the larger issues of environmental racism, class warfare, assimilation, and government corruption woven throughout the events it chronicles — the creation, controversy, and ultimate fate of an urban farm in Los Angeles — the director Scott Hamilton Kennedy wisely keeps the focus on the lives and stories of the people involved.

«Detroit could be the nation's leading example of urban farming and become a destination for fresh, local and natural foods and become a major part of the green movement,» Hantz said in a press conference announcing the project earlier this year.