133 days ago by mcorreia

The urban agriculture movement in New York City has made enormous progress this year. New legislation favoring urban farming was introduced. New farms opened. There’s even a new farm school. It all happened within the last nine months, all of it summarized here. New Farms with More on the Way Farms ...

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141 days ago by Linda Hedrick

World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg, 1918. Gardening is the new old trend. With the economy being what it is, the return of consumers to real food, which we now call "organic", and the green push to eat locally harvested produce, more and more people are making the attempt to grow their own ...

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157 days ago by mcorreia

BrightFarms, a Manhattan-based company that designs, builds and operates hydroponic rooftop greenhouses for others, is planning to build one for itself. The company will build a 25,000-square-foot greenhouse on top of a building near LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, according to an a ...

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161 days ago by Food Devil

It is with much regret that I have some sad news on the Rooftop garden front This Summer has been the wettest on record and my tomatoes just could not survive in these sorrowful conditions...if any on us could come ot think of it I learnt alot this summer in respect to gardening & it is definitely s ...

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165 days ago by Jeffrey Wankel

We’re not just growing vegetables on our rooftops here at Bread for the City. We’re growing gardeners. Some of our clients have never really seen a garden before, let alone worked in one themselves. Many people, however, have fond memories of gardening in their youth (as part of family and community ...

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165 days ago by Jeffrey Wankel

We’re not just growing vegetables on our rooftops here at Bread for the City. We’re growing gardeners. Some of our clients have never really seen a garden before, let alone worked in one themselves. Many people, however, have fond memories of gardening in their youth (as part of family and community ...

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165 days ago by mcorreia

© Photo by Margarida Correia. See caption at bottom of article. In the vast expanse of barren rooftops that mark this north Brooklyn neighborhood, one stood out far above the rest: the one atop Bushwick Starr Theatre. It was the only roof with plants — all happily soil-free, or “hydroponic.” Rather ...

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167 days ago by Angela

Rooftop Gardening Rooftop Gardening A rooftop garden, differently known as a green roof, as the name would suggest, is a garden on top of a roof used to grow plants. There are a number of potential benefits of rooftop gardening. For one, it can reduce the negative effects of air pollution to the env ...

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174 days ago by Food Devil

The time has come to pull the first of my carrots...at the start of the Summer I really had no clue what I was doing. I have definitely enjoyed the whole experience of getting to understand how this whole gardening lark works. Anyhow lets see how they turned out So all in all they are a success...I ...

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175 days ago by mcorreia

Farmers Markets Grow Despite Bad Economy If only the economy would grow as rapidly as the nation’s farmers markets. The number of farmers markets operating throughout the country grew 17%, from 6,132 in 2010 to 7,175 this year. The results were released in the USDA’s 2011 National Farmers Market Dir ...

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