Sentences with phrase «urban farming as»

As more urban consumers discover the health benefits of fresh, locally grown food products, more entrepreneurs are expected to consider urban farming as a career alternative with real potential.

Great information on urban farming as well as green living and DIY.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn's FoodWorks white paper salutes urban farms as «vital community assets,» while Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's FoodNYC report vows to «establish urban food production as a priority for New York City.»

Not exact matches

As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

As far back as Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocencAs far back as Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocencas Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocence.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

It eventually purchased the facility and uses the property for the warehouse as well as truck parking and the future site of a green house that will house an organic certified hydroponic urban farm, Hannigan says.

I was delighted to spend time with farmers such as the irascible Joel Salatin of Polyface, the fiery and generous Mike Callicrate of Ranch Foods Direct, the irreverent and determined Greg Gunthorp of Gunthorp Farms, the earnest and warm Guido Frosini of True Grass Farms, the focused and incisive Marina of Circle B Ranch, and the fierce and friendly Julia Smith of Urban Digs Farm.

These days, Ed tends an «urban farm» in D.C., works as a personal chef for clients with special needs, and teaches «food appreciation» to school children.

He was a co-founder of the group D.C. Urban Gardeners, sits on the advisory board of the D.C. Farm to School Network and contributes to food policy blogs such as Grist and La Vida Locavore, as well as the gardening blog Garden Rant.

The bond measure was approved, providing $ 40 million to build a new central kitchen, as well as an urban farm and education complex designed to serve lower - income communities within the city.

Aregbesola said the administration will remain unwavering in its rural - urban integration in the state so as to open up the farms for easy transportation of farm produced.

It's also worth pointing out a deeper selfishness involved involved in the equation: Democratic states functionally subsidize Republican states, and as I found in my distant days in the Texas Legislature, (relatively) pro-tax urban areas typically subsidize low - tax rural counties (think of Michelle Bachmann's family farm subsidy payments as an example).

Ranching, which is a major part of farming in the mountain West, is less heavily subsidized, as is fruit growing and wine making which is a particularly large part of farm economies in Florida, California and Arizona, each of which has a larger than average percentage of people living in urban areas.

There is a sharp urban / rural divide on the issue and the farming community strongly opposes what it regards as a diminution of the institution of marriage.

WHEREAS, An emerging interest in local farms and local foods has boosted agriculture's visibility as an economic driver creating new opportunities for farmers in both rural and urban areas of Erie County;

Continuing, the statement noted that the previous administration of Dr. Saraki, the current Senate President, implemented several infrastructural projects such as the Kwara State University, Malete, Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre, International Aviation College, Ilorin, Shonga farms, numerous urban and rural roads and electrification projects, remodelling of the Ilorin Township Stadium as well as pioneered the innovative Community Health Insurance Scheme.

Yet over the past 50 years, these ecosystems have begun disappearing as mangroves from Thailand to Jamaica are cleared for shrimp farming, logging and urban development.

«The consequences are both an altered hydrologic regime — which has implications for farming, urban water use and the environment — as well as degradation of streamwater quality,» he says.

But, as the example of King Farm shows, new urbanism can devolve into the kind of central planning criticized by the very founders of the urban planning school of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.

As a member of a fifth - generation Michigan farming family, he paid his undergraduate tuition at Michigan State by raising vegetables, and today he grows «as much as possible» in his tiny urban backyarAs a member of a fifth - generation Michigan farming family, he paid his undergraduate tuition at Michigan State by raising vegetables, and today he grows «as much as possible» in his tiny urban backyaras much as possible» in his tiny urban backyaras possible» in his tiny urban backyard.

But a growing number of chickens today are roaming or are caged on small family farms and in backyards, as suburban and urban poultry gains more popularity among consumers.

The crops listed in your article championing the urban vertical farm as a «new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities worldwide» are lettuce, spinach, kale, tomatoes, peppers, basil and strawberries (18 January, p 17).

The crops listed in your article championing the urban vertical farm as a «new, environmentally friendly way to feed the...

Victory Gardens As an architect in Chicago, one of the most important aspects of future city life for me is urban farming.

As Sonnenblume explains, this is not your typical, «Rah - rah, look how sustainable we are» story, but it is full of lessons for those interested in using urban farming to address current environmental and social challenges.

As people flocked from the farms and the countryside to new, anonymous urban centers, cut off from the family and communal structures that had supported their lives for generations the fear of becoming lost in the crowd (or The Crowd) was palpable.

November 9, 2012 • Urban farming goes vertical, as Singapore opens a 30 - feet tall greenhouse for bok choy and cabbage.

Alexis Daniels started as a Parachute teacher last year at the McKay K — 8 School in East Boston, where she lives and where she founded an urban community farm.

Seamus plants seeds in the Intervale, an urban farm in Burlington, Vermont, as part of the Sustainable Schools Project.

It's a bit of a chameleon as well, as it feels just as comfortable on the winding farm roads of Orange County as it does navigating the urban jungle of downtown anywhere.

The petrol - powered Great Wall ute is better suited to city slickers and urban dwellers and the rugged diesel Mahindra is better suited as a farm hand.

A great combination of gentle yet spunky, active yet also willing to be a lap dog and bold without being aggressive, the breed is a great choice for many situations, both on farms as well as in the city and urban areas.

The scenic qualities of this area have long been recognised and the idea of granting it protection as a national park were put forward as early as the 1920s, the principal reasons being that it was an extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country but these early plans never came to fruition and urban development and changing agricultural practices continued to impinge on the area's character with much of the traditional grass «downland» being turned over to arable farming.

Frazier's influences range from Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and Farm Security Administration photographers to self - portraitists Frida Kahlo and Claude Cahun, as well as cultural theorists bell hooks and Michele Wallace and urban geographer David Harvey, all of whom she cites as part of her «artistic family lineage.»

Architectural ruins was a common subject for 18th - and 19th - century artists and an especially favored theme among the Romanticists; Farm Security Administration photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange are known for documenting the effects of the Great Depression; and most recently, an obsession with photographing urban decay has sparked an entire genre dubbed «ruin porn.»

As the official brief explains: «urban vertical farming means the cultivation of agriculture products and livestock in vertical, in multi-story structures energy self - sufficient inserted within the metropolitan areas.»

Developing urban farms in and around Istanbul, operating soup & salad bars that use locally grown organic produce, and providing workshops on permaculture and sustainability, EK BİÇ YE İÇ seeks to build a community of people who are committed to becoming net producers rather than living on as typical urban consumers of world's resources.

Driven by an innate respect for mother earth, Vaadia treated these raw urban materials in the same way as the soil, rocks and sticks of his family's farm in Israel: like holy relics or treasured antiquities.

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's (PHS) Farm for the City transforms center city Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Plaza into a temporary, 2,000 - square - foot «farm - as - art installation» to encourage public conversations about the role of urban agriculture in strengthening communitFarm for the City transforms center city Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Plaza into a temporary, 2,000 - square - foot «farm - as - art installation» to encourage public conversations about the role of urban agriculture in strengthening communitfarm - as - art installation» to encourage public conversations about the role of urban agriculture in strengthening communities.

Farming in the city itself — on vacant lots, on the roof of an urban grocery store — is a fine ambition, but inherently limited, as today's Science Times story on vertical farming suFarming in the city itself — on vacant lots, on the roof of an urban grocery store — is a fine ambition, but inherently limited, as today's Science Times story on vertical farming sufarming suggests.

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.

Hexagro Urban Farming has been working on the Living Farming Tree for several years, and was picked as one of the finalists in the 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, but now the team is looking to take its system to the public with a crowdfunding campaign.

It's a place to learn about initiatives like the Vermont Sail Freight Project, in which a home - built sailing barge, the Ceres, is beginning to connect farmers in Vermont with urban food buyers in Brooklyn, expanding the regional «foodshed,» as some describe farm - to - table networks, by using neglected canal and river trade routes.

participants will also get to enjoy all the activities of the larger festival, as well as a tour of a local urban farm and garden, and an informal tiny house dinner where advocates can swap stories on, presumably, everything from teeny tiny energy bills, to tip on how to not elbow your partner in the face as you get dressed in the morning (OK, I made that last part up.

However, as the world's growing urban population continues to put pressure on ecosystems outside of our cities, it's likely that farming innovations like this one will find a niche and a market.

Issues such as urban farming have become hot topics of discussion.

LONGVIEW, WA — April 1, 2014 — As the trend towards urban agriculture has emerged over the last several years; the need for an optimized soil media for rooftop farming becomes a critical component for these systems.

As farms are introduced within city limits, prototypes for urban rooftop food production are springing up on new construction projects.

Thus even by the original UN (self serving) definition, «real» could be interpreted as anyone who acknowledges there is an observable increase in CO2, or any statistically distinguishable anthropogenic influence on climate, including converting forests to farms, and creating the «Urban Heat Island».