Occasionally I guest blog on other blogs or sites. Today on GardenRant.com, the four gardening women orchestrating the Rant started a two week vacation/hiatus and will be running guest posts each day. I really appreciate they ran mine since Garden Rant is one of the premier sites about gardening. My post can be found here… [...]
From the sustainable architecture site Building.co.uk,
If there were a prize for the least sustainable building concept, an air-conditioned greenhouse would surely be a strong contender. Barmy as it sounds, that is what is being built in hot and humid Singapore – or rather two of them. Crazier still, the scheme is intended to be an [...]
Katherine Gustafson reports for Food.Change.Org,
At P.S. 333, a New York City public school otherwise known as The Manhattan School for Children, a little schoolyard garden plot like the ones popping up at schools across the nation is simply not enough. Thanks to the enterprising efforts of parent volunteers, a history-making project is taking shape on [...]
Will Allen’s Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wisc. is the model for urban farming that many are duplicating. Now, in Cleveland, Ohio, Green Acres Plaza is a planned 60,000 sq. ft. agricultural structure designed for production, distribution, and the processing of locally and regionally grown foods. From Green Acres Plaza’s web site,
Green Acres Plaza will serve [...]
Trenton Forging in Trenton, Michigan has built a 1,600 square ft. greenhouse on its roof; the video below shows what heats the Greenhouse—excess heat from the forging operation. Veggies go to the employees and a charitable group. This will become more the norm as both demand for locally produce food and new ways of recycling [...]
John Gallagher, Business Writer for Detroit Free Press reports,
MGM Grand Detroit casino broke ground Friday on what promises to be downtown’s only big community garden and one of the most elaborate gardens in the city.
Created with the nonprofit Greening of Detroit organization, the MGM Grand garden will occupy 1.8 acres at Third and Plum near [...]
Barbara Duckworth reports for Producer.com,
Craig and Libby Smith’s farming dream has grown from a small greenhouse to more than 18,000 sq. feet of space producing flowers, herbs and vegetables.
They bought a bare quarter section of land northwest of Calgary near the hamlet of Madden in 1998 and by 2000 had started a small greenhouse that [...]
Nigel Austin reports for Adeliade Now,
The multi-million-dollar greenhouse in the South Australian desert will be run on desalinated water and is expected to create up to 100 jobs within two years.
A revolutionary seawater greenhouse project on the eastern shore of upper Spencer Gulf, 20km south of Port Augusta, is nearing completion in an ambitious approach [...]
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