Sentences with phrase «using urban gardening»

There are many ways to address food deserts using urban gardening, and although their approaches are all unique, Koch, Chov and Mahaba all describe the process of starting a community garden in similar ways.

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Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

Residents have found an array of uses for it, from gardening and education to revitalization of neglected urban landmarks.

Having roads between gardens also hindered movement, the research the Movement of feeder - using songbirds: the influence of urban features, published in the Journal Scientific reports, found.

«An important further point to address is the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in ornamental plants grown in greenhouses, which at the moment does not seem to be addressed — urban gardens have become an ever more important habitat for wild bees.»

We install and maintain urban farms & vegetable gardens in Boston while teaching clients how to grow food using their own backyards or rooftops.

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Some examples include energy auditing on campus and in the community, designing electric transportation systems, creating socially relevant art to be auctioned to raise funds for nonprofits, investigating relationships between Math and Art, producing original plays and designing and constructing urban gardening systems that will be used to grow produce for a cook - off competition.

Real School Gardens supports the design and installation of school gardens, train teachers to use them to improve children's learning, and build community around them to nurture support for urban schools.

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During the time of Sharq al - Andalus a real (from the Arabic Riyad) was a kind of orchard or garden, with some kind of building as summer residence that used to belong to a member of Andalusian urban oligarchy, located around the cities or large farmhouses.

The word «riad» originally denoted, in classical Arabic, a «garden» and came to be used to describe an urban home with an Andalusian or Moorish patio garden.

Helmed by Chef Gary Menes, Le Comptoir serves a vegetable - inspired menu highlighted with dishes prepared using locally sourced and seasonal ingredients picked from the hotel's organic urban garden in Long Beach.

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He uses recognisable urban infrastructure and industrial products, such as scaffolding poles or breeze blocks, and in this instance a garden shed.

«I take inspiration from the city around me -LSB-...] The trick is to combine recognisable urban or industrial elements, such as scaffolding poles, breeze blocks, even a garden shed, but then deconstruct them, and put them back together with light,» says Nathaniel Rackowe who creates installation and sculptural works using florescent bulbs.

A modular concrete floor piece marries Kenneth Noland's chevron device with the humble garden patio and polystyrene wall reliefs employ the motifs of Albers and Nicholson using the conventions of the urban planner.

The gardens she chooses to photograph are often in unlikely surroundings, on the side of an apartment building or behind a chain - link fence, and show the strategies that plants or their gardeners use to survive in an urban environment.

The vertical garden, or «green wall,» was developed in order to maximize the use of available surfaces in congested urban spaces.

For Skulptur Projekte» 07, he asked some 50 garden allotment associations in Münster to keep diaries on the everyday life of their urban agricultural plots, which are not only used for growing one's own fruit and vegetables but are also vital sites of social encounter.

Establishing a plant - animal - people trilogy with the Edible Estates (est. 2005) series of front yard food gardens and the Animal Estates (est. 2008) initiatives for urban wildlife architecture, Domestic Integrities (est. 2012) turns its attention inward to local patterns and rituals of interior domestic landscapes and the way we use what we resourcefully find around us to artfully make ourselves at home.

Complimenting these new spaces are a number of restored traditional houses, coral stone enclosures and courtyards used for exhibitions and public programmes, including the SAF Urban Garden and the Mirage City Cinema.

I signed myself up, then went to hear James Birch an organic farmer who used to help urban homeowners in LA convert their gardens and landscapes into organic food gardens — from Flora Bella Farms in Three Rivers, Calif..

But worldwide, communities are banding together to save their local urban wild spaces, using a variety of tactics like outreach, events, guerilla gardening, and in the case of one Montreal collective, creating an interactive online map using open source tools, mapping the wild, uncultivated spaces of Montreal.

Although only convenient for houses with lots of floor space and therefore not the perfect small - space urban apartment solution, the use of the soil makes sense in this case and avoids the fancy technology or vertical gardening.

The vacant land (that might be land that is earmarked for other uses but not yet in use as such or land that is not fit for construction e.g. flood zones, land under power lines, etcetera, or buffer zones and land reserves for future use) is given in short or medium term lease to organized groups of urban poor for gardening purposes (multi annual purposive specific leaseholds or occupancy licenses).

The design concept incorporates broad - ranged regenerative agricultural practices and makes use of every surface of the built environment, from rooftops and walls to gardens and swales, to cultivate plants and increase photosynthetic productivity within our urban landscapes, adjacent lands and remote territories that will benefit from restorative land management practices.

The Best Urban Gardening blogs from thousands of top Urban Gardening blogs in our index using search and social metrics.

The Best Urban Gardening blogs from thousands of top Urban Gardening blogs in our index using search and social metrics.

We install and maintain urban farms & vegetable gardens in Boston while teaching clients how to grow food using their own backyards or rooftops.

Paint your trellis in an earthy colour palette to mimic that of your garden or, if you're designing an urban oasis, use a contrasting primary palette for added effect.

Alice de Crom (back left) of Floralista Flower Studio brought in armfuls of beautiful blooms, which members of the Urban - Walls team (pictured here, founder Danielle Hardy, front left, and production assistant Tammie Gauer) used to design the Garden Flowers decals that are now showcased throughout the space.