urban gardening
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These urban farmers want to feed the whole neighborhood — for free
The Beacon Food Forest plants the heirloom seeds of a real sharing economy.
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How to make a fold-out window garden
This garden design gives you three times as much growing space as a window box.
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Bike-a-Bee does beekeeping by bike
Jana Kinsman’s startup Bike-a-Bee will be a distributed network of beehives in the Chicago area — Kinsman will hook up local urban farms and gardens with bees, which will help pollinate the plants while also producing honey. (Greenspaces that host a beehive get a share of the honey profits.) Meanwhile, Kinsman will care for the […]
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Guerilla Grafters make ornamental plants bear fruit
Duck and cover, it's a drive-by fruiting! Guerilla Grafters stick fruit-bearing limbs onto San Francisco's ornamental trees, making city streets into food-producing mini-orchards. (Grafting has been standard practice with fruit trees since basically forever, so there's nothing Frankenfoody about this.) It's not technically legal — the city discourages planting fruit trees, because of worries that […]
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Baltimore’s can-do approach to food justice
Beehives from Five Seed Farm and Apiary, one of the farms expected to begin production on Baltimore city land in 2012. Photo: Courtesy of Five Seed Farm and ApiaryCities all over the country are addressing the lack of access to fresh and healthy food on the part of their residents, but few are in as […]