Tag: Urban Farm
Paris: An Organic Farm In An Underground Car Park
An underground parking garage may seem like a strange place to grow food, but the start-up Cycloponics has installed a farm in the second basement of a car park in Paris, Porte de la Chapelle. "The Cave", as this farm is called, grows organic crops including mushrooms, micro-shoots and...
This Swedish Underground Farm Will Heat The Building Above It
Underneath a 26-floor office tower in Stockholm, an underground space will soon become a farm and, because of a unique business model, the new farm will "pay" for the space in heat.
The Plantagon CityFarm will grow greens in vertical towers under LED lights. By capturing the heat from the...
‘Closed Loop’ Urban Farm In Singapore Tackles Food Waste With Insects
Citizen Farm has been using the black soldier fly to help grow its vegetables, as food for its fish and to help tackle food waste - the first in Singapore to incorporate these insects as part of farming practice.
The "closed loop" farm runs on a circular economy approach, by...
Africa Needs Its Version Of Vertical Farms To Feed Growing Cities
Vertical farms use high tech lighting and climate controlled buildings to grow crops like leafy greens or herbs indoors while using less water and soil.
Because it's a closed growing system, with controlled evaporation from plants, this farms use 95% less water than traditional farms.
At the same time, most vertical...
California’s Long Beach Will Tax Empty Land to Encourage Urban Farming
A California law to give tax breaks to landowners who convert vacant lots to small urban farms has gone largely unused in the four years since it was passed. But now Long Beach is adding a stick to the carrot of incentives.
Landowners who don’t convert their vacant parcels to...
Hong Kong Finds Bliss in Rooftop Gardens
Rooftops in densely populated Hong Kong are fast turning greener and more fertile as urban farmers seek to grow crops from their homes and offices and create a more liveable community.
Some 60 rooftop farms and 1,400 farmers have emerged locally over the past decade, and a handful of farms...
South Africa’s Chamber of Mines Shows-Off Potential of Rooftop Agriculture
South Africa's Chamber of Mines is aiming at creating a vibrant urban agricultural ecosystem by repurposing disused rooftops and making use of hydroponics and aquaponics to produce agricultural produce for Johannesburg's inner city communities.
The initiative was established by the Johannesburg Inner City Partnership.
As a key stakeholder in the JICP,...
Growing Greens in the Spare Room as ‘Vertical Farm’ Start-Ups Flourish
Dan Albert’s farm is far from traditional. Farmbox Greens is inside a two-car garage behind Mr. Albert’s Seattle home. It consists of 600 square feet of microgreens grown in vertically stacked trays beneath LED lights. He now has three employees and sells his greens to about 50 restaurants in...
Australia’s Karenni Refugees Cultivate Community Through Wollongong Farming Initiative
Developing small farms on unused land in urban areas could help alleviate chronic unemployment for refugees resettled in Australia.
At Mangerton in Wollongong, Karenni refugees are transforming a steep hillside next to the Saint Therese Primary School, into a traditional terraced garden.
According to University of Wollongong geographer Ananth Gopal, community...
The Underground World Of Urban Farming In London
Under an anonymous back street in south London lies a vast underground air-raid shelter that has been turned into a pioneering urban farm supplying supermarkets and restaurants in the capital.
The World War II shelter in Clapham, which could protect up to 8,000 people from Nazi German bombs, consists of...