Tag: Community Gardens
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Doctors Office Transforms 4,000 Sq.Ft Lawn into Edible Landscape
With diabetes and obesity causing major health problems, one family practice is transforming its front lawn into an educational, edible garden.
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Boston Gardening Initiative to Offer Free ‘TOM-ato’ Plants to Promote Urban Gardening
Boston is hosting a tomato plant giveaway to encourage new urban gardeners.
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Cooperative Urban Farming in Kentucky, Inspired By Latin America
The cooperative tradition dates back centuries in many Latin American countries. Now migrants are applying its principles to urban farming in the United States.
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When Neighbors Meet to Compare Energy Bills, Much Bigger Ideas Are Born
A neighborhood carbon coaching initiative in Britain is spawning all kinds of wonderful community collaborations.
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A Vertical Garden Feeds 10,000+ Visitors to Chicago O'Hare Airport
Between the fast food outlets and news stands, Chicago O'Hare Airport features an indoor urban garden growing food for its restaurants.
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How an Abandoned Market Garden Was Occupied (Video)
A village that was threatened by the expansion of Heathrow Airport in London became home to a squatted community garden. Here's how it happened.
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Brewers Embrace Urban Hops from Backyard Farmers
Independent breweries in London may start buying hops from allotments, backyard farmers and anyone who will grow them.
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Turning a Toronto Roof into an Urban Garden and Community Space
A proposed plan would create a rooftop garden that would double as a community gathering spot in downtown Toronto.
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How Refugees are Cultivating a Garden and Growing Community
A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.
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Can Small-Scale Compost Entrepreneurs Circumvent the NIMBYs?
Small-scale composting collection services seem to be proliferating. Can they take on larger, less-popular industrial-scale composting?
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Urban Depavers Return Parking Lots to Paradise
The growing movement of depaving rips the asphalt off abandoned lots and converts the spaces to community gardens.
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Queens Fights for a High Line of Its Own
Queens residents are working to turn abadoned elevated railway into a park and recreational community space.
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Resilience Has Not Been Lost (It's Been Willfully Ignored)
Resilience is a hot topic right now. But it's important to remember it is nothing new. Many communities have lived and breathed this stuff for years.
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Square Foot Gardening and Permaculture Join Forces (Video)
Permaculture gardens often look wild and unkempt. Square foot gardening imposes order on the tiniest of spaces. Can the two be combined?
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Urban Agriculture As Economic Stimulus: Help Grow a People-Funded Farm (Video)
Community farming is not altruistic do-gooding. This NC collective argues it's about rethinking our entire food system.
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Ever Seen a Walking Onion? How Unusual Plants Promote Greener Gardening (Video)
Growing your own food is good. But why limit yourself to grocery store staples. One London project encourages gardeners to think outside the box.
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How Rooftop Farms, Upstate Farms and Community Gardens All Help to Feed New York (Video)
From the rooftops of Queens via an upstate farm to an urban community garden. The term "farm" can mean many different things.
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Heathrow Residents Speak Out For Squatted Community Garden (Video)
Residents don't always welcome squatters moving in next door. But in Heathrow, England, it was infinitely preferable to the alternatives.
