Tag: Europe
Water + Fish = Vegetables
Could you create an ecosystem that could grow volumes of food while helping the planet?
In Montenegro Urban Agriculture Projects Are Blossoming During The Pandemic
Whether due to job losses or as a way to escape the dull reality of quarantine measures, or both, many citizens of Montenegro have started cultivating gardens, parks and any other available land during the COVID pandemic.
Since this spring, new urban farmers in Bar and other towns have either...
Daycares in Finland Changed Children’s Immune Systems With Forest Floor Play-yards
Recent research from Finland suggests that children's immune system can be boosted by letting them play in soil more often.
Ikea Is Working On Urban Farming Products
Ikea wants to sell you more than furniture - it wants to sell sustainable living, and that includes what you need to grow your own food.
Ikea is reported to be developing a new line of products with British industrial designer Tom Dixon, to be formally announced in May 2019...
Old Coal Mines Could Be Turned Into Farms
Abandoned coal mines across the UK could be brought back to life as huge underground farms, according to academics.
Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as "the perfect environment" for growing food such as vegetables and herbs. Advocates say subterranean farms could yield up to ten times as much as...
British Bangladeshi Women Want To Start Their Own Food-Growing Project
A group of Bengali women want to set up their own food-growing project after being inspired by a community garden in London.
The Moulsecoomb Bangladeshi Women’s Group visited The Coriander Club, a gardening and cookery club for older generation Bengali women at Spitalfields City Farm near Shoreditch to learn how...
Urban Farms Are Greening Paris
Anne Hidalgo, elected in 2014, declared her intention to make Paris a greener city. In 2016 the Paris government launched Parisculteurs, a project which aims to cover the city's rooftops and walls with 100 hectares (247 acres) of vegetation by 2020. One third of the green space, according to...
Solar-Powered School In Denmark Planned For Kids Grow Their Own Food
A secondary school in Denmark hopes to be more engaging with students with a solar-powered building that teaches them how to grow and cook food in the rooftop garden.
Boasting a size of 105,690 square feet, this new school allows for up to 784 students with additional rooms for the...
In Berlin, Cultivating A Taste For Plants
On the Moritzplatz, in the popular district of Kreuzberg in Berlin, a colourful crowd drops its bicycles and rushes inside the Prinzessingartenfor an exchange of exchange and sale of nutritious plants. There are also several stands of environmental protection associations. The garden appears, behind the fences, as an oasis...
The Astonishing Scale Of Food Waste
There is one statistic in particular that might make us think when it comes to tidying up after the festivities: roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption gets lost or wasted every year.
At the same time, 795 million people around the world were...