Original post can be found at: http://blogs.abc.net.au 13 October 2015 , 9:17 AM by Spencer Howson Left: Kay and John’s nature strip community veggie patch. Image by Terri Begley/612 ABC Brisbane. Your veggie patch is constantly attacked by possums – so you try something different. You move everything outside your fence – onto the nature strip –...
How did you get started with your blog? It started 3 years ago. I was just showing some of my food and veggie pics to one of my coworkers and he was like wow those are some awesome pics. He asked had I heard of Instagram, said it was like Facebook but photo based. Im not a ‘Facebooker’ so I was immediately intrigued. Signed up that night, he taught me...
Original post can be found at: Inquisitr If your town isn’t on board with urban gardens, they are living in the past, because urban gardens are sprouting up all over the nation as people search for more sustainability and more control over what they put in their mouths. Farmland is scarce and costly, according to WGBH News, which featured an article on urban farms....
Original post can be found at: earth911.com Whether it’s because of the looming increase in water bills across the nation resulting from the ongoing drought, or it’s the wealth of creative ways people are finding to harvest rainwater, the technique of rainwater collection is springing up in gardens throughout the United States. In fact, a recently published...
Source: citylab.com At the Stack House Apartments in Seattle’s now-trendy South Lake Union neighborhood, residents can walk out onto a terrace and pluck a tomato right off the vine. In the South Bronx, an 8,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse atop an affordable housing development is creating jobs and food for the residents below—along with cooler summers...
With the world’s population expected to hit 9.1 billion by 2050, coupled with the growing effects of climate change on our ability to grow crops, a company out of Barcelona has proposed a solution to feeding the future world. Forward Thinking Architecture’s triple-decker Smart Floating Farms would feature 2.2 million square feet (2.04 sq km) of fish farm,...
This post is originally from http://www.fastcoexist.com Deep below the streets of London, something is growing in tunnels that once kept people safe from World War II bombs. One hint: It’s leafy. An old bomb shelter is also pest-free, as well as weather free, and there’s never a frost. That means no pesticides. And because the farm is hydroponic, all the...
How would you quickly describe yourself? My wife Karen and I live in Chicago and love organic gardening. We started with a small vegetable garden many years ago, but over time it expanded to take over most of the backyard. Now we’re growing in the front yard too. During the summer and early fall, we don’t buy any vegetables from the store and buy very little...
This post is originally from commercialappeal.com Some people are happy with a patio tomato on the porch. Willie Anderson, 82, took container gardening to another level; he planted tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, okra, squash, peppers and eggplants in five-gallon plastic buckets in his yard in Red Banks, Mississippi. He now has plants in more than 1,000 buckets. It’s...
How would you quickly describe yourself to others? I’m a green thumb, nature lover from the suburbs, and my husband is a tech nerd from the country! We are both a bit artsy, love science, and love food. How did you get started with your blog/Instagram page/etc? I wanted to record our garden as it changed. I felt my personal FaceBook page was not the...
Fall and winter gardens are possible, even when growing in containers. Stick with these cool-weather crops and planting suggestions for success. Don’t wait. Now is the perfect time to order your seeds online and start planting! Believe it or not, September – October are great times to start these seeds listed below …. First, we’re going to break it down by container size. ...
Source: earthjustice.org San Francisco, CA — Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected U.S. EPA’s approval of the neonicotinoid insecticide “sulfoxaflor.” The Court concluded that EPA violated federal law when it approved sulfoxaflor without reliable studies regarding the impact that the insecticide would have on honeybee colonies. The Court vacated...
How would you quickly describe yourself to others? We’re Evan and Judith, a husband-and-wife partnership living in a small house in Portland, Oregon. We are trying to grow and make things and carve out a good life for ourselves that hopefully doesn’t hurt or impede on the lives of those around us in the process. Together we have created a little urban homestead that...
This post is originally from capradio.org An urban farm in Stockton may serve as a model for the Central Valley. The non-profit group “Puentes” built the Boggs Tract Community Garden on a three-acre plot in a poor neighborhood where garbage had piled up for years. Puentes Director Jeremy Terhune says the organic garden allows more than two dozen families...
This post was found originally from vegfriend.com Not just a few, but all diseases can heal with the correct diet and absolutely no medication. Your body is capable of handling and recovering from any ailment provided you give it the appropriate terrain to heal. Supplements may at times be beneficial, but your true medicine is food and always has been. The next time...
