Gotham Greens: New York’s Rooftop Garden A food producer in New York has found an innovative way to grow food in Brooklyn, a city with little open space: rooftop gardens. Gotham Greens is providing New Yorkers with fresh, local produce while keeping high standards for sustainability. Not only do their methods yield 20-30 times more…
DetailsEat Locally and In Season This Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a surprisingly easy time of year to incorporate local, in-season foods, as well as a great opportunity to show family and friends how delicious and simple eating locally can be. Have a small garden? Try to incorporate some of your herbs or produce into a Thanksgiving…
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Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Desert Southwest By Tayler Jenkins If you’ve ever hiked through the desert, you’ve observed the strikingly beautiful stretch of rocks, cacti, and shrubs that seem roll on endlessly. The desert is a kind of anomaly that both fascinates and intimidates its visitors, because beneath those breathtaking fiery sunsets a…
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Mamavation PodCast with Greg on Urban Farming and Sustainable Living Greg demystifies Urban Farming as a guest speaker in a Mamavation PodCast episode. Greg talks in-depth with blogger Leah Segedie on various topics like raising chickens, how to grow in-door plants, growing in the winter, fruit trees, and much more. He also discusses educating others through his ASU…
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Urban Farm Guides App Available Today for Download By Greg Peterson I’m very excited to announce that our new Urban Farm Guides app was released for iPad and iPhone today. The app gives users access to useful tips and easy-to-use guidelines for learning about urban farming and sustainability. Our current guides include: Basic Seed Saving, Fowl…
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Your Green Lawn By Greg Peterson Oh, the double meaning there. AND why the heck is Greg the Urban Farmer talking about growing a lawn? Primarily because it drives me absolutely crazy how the status quo grows winter lawns. IMHO they are doing it ALL wrong—too many chemicals, too much water and not enough organic…
DetailsMargaret the Condo Gardener By Greg Peterson I have a good friend whom I call Margaret the Condo Gardner. Her garden is quite the contrast of mine, but she will tell you that it is every bit as gratifying. Most everyone I know who enjoys gardening shares this same sentiment—growing your own food really grows…
DetailsThe Scarecrow: Chipotle Challenges Customers to Think About Their Food Chipotle has released a new game called The Scarecrow that contains a message most large corporations would do anything to keep you from thinking about: the reality of industrialized meat production. The protagonist is a scarecrow pursuing the goal of breaking down Crow Foods, a monopoly…
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Fruit Tree Tour Teaches Kids about Sustainable Food Thanks to an organization called Common Vision, children all over California are learning about the environment by planting fruit tree orchards at their schools. Traveling the state in a vegetable oil-powered bus, the 20 volunteers make stops at schools around the state to provide a fun and…
DetailsCompost in a Bag: Raising Red Worms for Nutrient-Dense Soil By Dan Corbin Special thanks to Dan Corbin, owner of the Wisconsin Worm Farm, for sending us this informative article. 1. Obtain a large feed or seed sack from an agricultural store or garden store. The sack is of the polypropylene/plastic stranded variety. A sand bag…
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