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UK: Disused London park turned into popular allotments as 13 plots snapped up within 2 hours on ‘Airbnb for gardens’

UK: Disused London park turned into popular allotments as 13 plots sna...

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Lots of indoor farms are shutting down as their businesses struggle. So why are more being built?

Lots of indoor farms are shutting down as their businesses struggle. S...

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Peru: The Backyard Farmers Who Grow Food With Fog

Peru: The Backyard Farmers Who Grow Food With Fog

9 hours ago 3

Nick Federoff shows us a custom-built chicken coop for home-grown chickens

Nick Federoff shows us a custom-built chicken coop for home-grown chic...

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South Africa: How home gardens are saving people money

South Africa: How home gardens are saving people money

1 day ago 9

Home-grown fruit and vegetables in Hong Kong are not easy to find?

Home-grown fruit and vegetables in Hong Kong are not easy to find?

3 days ago 8

NYC Residential Rooftops Strive To Ensure Hives Thrive

NYC Residential Rooftops Strive To Ensure Hives Thrive

3 days ago 7

Agrihood: CA’s largest urban farm that combines affordable housing opens in Santa Clara

Agrihood: CA’s largest urban farm that combines affordable housing ope...

4 days ago 14

UK: People who grow their own fruit and veg waste less food and eat more healthily, says research

UK: People who grow their own fruit and veg waste less food and eat mo...

4 days ago 14

Australia: Keeping Beekeeping in the Family

Australia: Keeping Beekeeping in the Family

5 days ago 20

How gardens enable refugees and immigrants to put down roots in new communities

How gardens enable refugees and immigrants to put down roots in new co...

6 days ago 19

NYC’s community gardens overcame obstacles, including Rudy Giuliani

NYC’s community gardens overcame obstacles, including Rudy Giuliani

6 days ago 20

Students across 60 NYC schools are getting an urban farming curriculum

Students across 60 NYC schools are getting an urban farming curriculum...

1 week ago 18

A Pioneering Urban Farm Community Sheds Light on Affordable Housing in Santa Clara

A Pioneering Urban Farm Community Sheds Light on Affordable Housing in...

1 week ago 19

Secret gardens: The plants and insects that inhabit NYC’s green roofs

Secret gardens: The plants and insects that inhabit NYC’s green roofs

1 week ago 9

India: Hospitals take up farming, yield used in kitchen

India: Hospitals take up farming, yield used in kitchen

1 week ago 10

Want to see a massive community garden with free produce in Booker T. Washington Park?

Want to see a massive community garden with free produce in Booker T. ...

1 week ago 15

A photographer captures the people behind NYC’s community gardens

A photographer captures the people behind NYC’s community gardens

1 week ago 16

Colombian woman finds peace in urban agriculture

Colombian woman finds peace in urban agriculture

1 week ago 12

Stabenow Fights to Restore Funding for Urban Agriculture

Stabenow Fights to Restore Funding for Urban Agriculture

1 week ago 20

The Organic Urban Farm Growing Healthy Food for One of Chicago’s Most Underserved Neighborhoods

The Organic Urban Farm Growing Healthy Food for One of Chicago’s Most ...

1 week ago 13

South Africa: Ocean View’s ‘kos gangsters’ fighting hunger with a flourishing food garden

South Africa: Ocean View’s ‘kos gangsters’ fighting hunger with a flou...

1 week ago 13

Detroit’s Mayor Mike Duggan appoints new director of urban agriculture

Detroit’s Mayor Mike Duggan appoints new director of urban agriculture...

2 weeks ago 18

City Farming: A How-to Guide to Growing Crops and Raising Livestock in Urban Spaces

City Farming: A How-to Guide to Growing Crops and Raising Livestock in...

2 weeks ago 17

Canada: Winnipeg’s Rainbow Community Garden grows connections and weeds out food inflation

Canada: Winnipeg’s Rainbow Community Garden grows connections and weed...

2 weeks ago 19

Mayor Duggan plans new urban agriculture director to support Detroit farmers

Mayor Duggan plans new urban agriculture director to support Detroit f...

2 weeks ago 13

Minnesota’s Project Sweetie Pie Urban Farm

Minnesota’s Project Sweetie Pie Urban Farm

2 weeks ago 20

Canada: Metro Vancouver endorses plan for carbon-neutral agriculture by 2050

Canada: Metro Vancouver endorses plan for carbon-neutral agriculture b...

2 weeks ago 22

West Philadelphia urban farm provides fresh produce, community experience

West Philadelphia urban farm provides fresh produce, community experie...

2 weeks ago 16

Canada: How a video game is helping Saskatchewan, kids learn about farming

Canada: How a video game is helping Saskatchewan, kids learn about far...

2 weeks ago 23

Downtown staple Urban Roots Farm to lie dormant after 14 years of serving Springfield

Downtown staple Urban Roots Farm to lie dormant after 14 years of serv...

2 weeks ago 24

What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds

What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of...

2 weeks ago 22

Visiting Urban Agriculture Professors from France Join Canadian Forum

Visiting Urban Agriculture Professors from France Join Canadian Forum

2 weeks ago 22

Philippines: Silkworm farming takes root in Cagayan de Oro, creates jobs for women

Philippines: Silkworm farming takes root in Cagayan de Oro, creates jo...

2 weeks ago 20

India’s First Urban Farming Centre Inaugurated on Rooftop of Hyderabad’s CDMA

India’s First Urban Farming Centre Inaugurated on Rooftop of Hyderabad...

2 weeks ago 20

An ‘Urban Garden’ Takes Root on Montclair State University’ Campus

An ‘Urban Garden’ Takes Root on Montclair State University’ Campus

3 weeks ago 23

Meet the urban farmer sprouting mushrooms from coffee waste in Portugal

Meet the urban farmer sprouting mushrooms from coffee waste in Portuga...

3 weeks ago 12

Philippines: The booming story of urban agriculture

Philippines: The booming story of urban agriculture

3 weeks ago 13

Rise & Root Farm Is Inviting Queer and Trans Youth Into the Garden

Rise & Root Farm Is Inviting Queer and Trans Youth Into the Garden

3 weeks ago 21

Canada: More of the farm population is living in urban areas

Canada: More of the farm population is living in urban areas

3 weeks ago 26

Brazil: ‘We’re Here Fighting for Our Agriculture’: Urban Farmers in Rio de Janeiro’s Vargens Region Resist Real Estate Speculation and Floods

Brazil: ‘We’re Here Fighting for Our Agriculture’: Urban Farmers in Ri...

3 weeks ago 19

Urban Goat Farming in Uganda

Urban Goat Farming in Uganda

3 weeks ago 9

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi spends weekend farming in space

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi spends weekend farming in space

3 weeks ago 30

California $11.67 Million 2023 Urban Agriculture Grant Program

California $11.67 Million 2023 Urban Agriculture Grant Program

3 weeks ago 21

A growing urban-farming movement has transformed dozens of vacant lots in Philadelphia.

A growing urban-farming movement has transformed dozens of vacant lots...

3 weeks ago 25

When Planting Gets Political: Urban gardening for social reform

When Planting Gets Political: Urban gardening for social reform

3 weeks ago 28

India: 10,000 Delhiites to get training in urban farming at 400 workshops

India: 10,000 Delhiites to get training in urban farming at 400 worksh...

4 weeks ago 17

Urban Farming in Copenhagen Grows Relationships in the City

Urban Farming in Copenhagen Grows Relationships in the City

4 weeks ago 26

Canada: Watch artist Godfrey Stephens draw his ‘Teacup Man’ at City Farmer

Canada: Watch artist Godfrey Stephens draw his ‘Teacup Man’ at City Fa...

4 weeks ago 22

Canada: City Farmer in Vancouver – an urban wonderland

Canada: City Farmer in Vancouver – an urban wonderland

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