Tag: agriculture
“People Eat More Veggies When They Take Part In Gardening”
Sundari Kraft is the founder of Sustainable Food Denver, founding co-chair of the Denver Sustainable Food Policy Council, and founder of one of Denver’s first multi-plot urban farms.
FT: One of your legislative successes is a policy to allow Denver residents to raise chickens, ducks, and dwarf goats within the...
In Washington School Gardens Are No Longer A Rarity
Horace Mann Elementary School has a rooftop garden. After leafy vegetables are planted and cared for, students harvest the crops, chop them up and serve them to more than 400 of their peers for lunch.
Jagodnik’s third-floor classroom, which is filled with seedlings and outfitted with a small kitchen, opens...
Is Urban Farming For Rich Hipsters?
Making urban grown produce affordable "This is a real challenge," says Kate Hofman, CEO and co-founder of London-based aquaponics enterprise GrowUp Urban Farms, which produces fish, salads and herbs in unused city spaces to sell wholesale.
"Food is a commodity, and we have to make the business work. Of course,...
10 Companies Feeding The Urban Farming Boom
With more reports sounding alarms about looming food scarcity issues, there is a boom in agriculture tech, breeding companies offering everything from unorthodox growing setups to soil sensors, hydroponics and all manner of crop data analytics.
Alongside the boom in urban ag startups is the growing number of grassroots nonprofit...