Tag: USA
Vertical Farming As A Solution To Urbanisation
A New York-based sustainability strategist, Henry Gordon-Smith, said more and more young people were attracted to vertical farming.
Vertical farming is producing food on vertically stacked layers, or in high rise buildings, rooftops, glasshouses, warehouses, or shipping containers.
He said it was becoming increasingly popular in countries such as the United...
New York City Passes New Urban Agriculture Bill
The New York City council passed a bill today that will create the city's first centralized digital hub meant specifically for urban agriculture.
This hub will be run entirely by the city and will hopefully be seen as a resource for both new and established businesses.
This bill, entitled 1661-A, is...
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...
The Variety of Our Food Crops is Declining
Potatoes are native to the Andes, and over 4,000 varieties are grown there now. They come in numerous shapes, sizes and colors – red, yellow, purple, striped and spotted.
This wide array of types is an example of agrobiodiversity – a genetic legacy created by natural selection interacting with cultural...
New Regulations For Greenhouse Growers To Produce Safe Food
As the rules of the Food Safety Modernization Act are finalized, greenhouse growers will be required to ensure the edible crops they produce are safe for human consumption.
The purpose of the law, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is "To ensure the U.S. food supply is safe...
Rich Millennials Are Ditching Golf Communities For ‘Agrihoods’
A new type of housing community known as "Agrihoods" are popping up around the US. Agrihoods are built around working farms and are replacing the once-popular golf communities favored by Baby Boomers.
Hundreds of so-called "Agrihoods" - short for agricultural neighborhoods - around the US are now aimed at farm-to-table-loving millennials.
According...
“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...
Michigan Ornamental Growers Are Adding Greenhouse Vegetables
Looking to take advantage of the increased demand for locally-grown and a better quality product, ornamental plant growers in Michigan are adding a variety of greenhouse vegetable crops.
Michigan State University Extension greenhouse and floriculture outreach specialist W. Garrett Owen said he works with ornamental growers who produce bedding plants,...
Chicago: When Farm to Table Is Just A Few Blocks Away
Urban farming alive and well at site of former Robert Taylor Homes.
It's one of many lessons Rosenthal has learned in the two years she's been growing produce at Legends Farm, a training site for urban farmers through the Chicago Botanic Garden's Windy City Harvest program.
Today, where chain-link fences once...