Tag: organic farming
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...
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...
How EcoFarms Changed the Lives of 15,000 Farmers
Omprakash Mor, a farmer, who couldn’t stand the injustice against other farmers in the agriculture sector decided to do something about it and started his own social enterprise in 1995.
The possibility of getting fairly paid for the worth of their yields was extremely low, getting paid in time was...