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NYC Restaurant With A Rooftop Hydroponic Garden

August 15, 2010 Hydroponics

Usually ABC’s Nightline program would run a story about hydroponics that is all about growing marijuana. They deviated from their usual norm by running this story about a soon to open restaurant in New York City serving vegetables grown hydroponically on their roof, supplying their operation with much of their fresh produce. The video below [...]

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Companies Catering To Rooftop Gardeners Increasing Number Of Products Geared Toward Urban Growers

June 24, 2010 Environment

As the urban gardening trend is getting more popular than ever, companies and individuals offering products and services that cater to these urban gardeners are thriving as Associated Press writer David Runk reports on MSNBC.com,
Using heat from a forge that turns orange-hot metal into everything from car parts to hand tools, a Michigan manufacturer is [...]

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Uncommon Ground: Chicago’s Certified Organic Roof Top Farm

May 20, 2010 Organics

Joanna Postlethwaite and Dayna Reggero reports for Chicago Green Festival,
The first Certified Organic Roof Top Farm in the United States, owned by the restaurant Uncommon Ground, illustrates how green agriculture is possible and functional in an urban environment. The farm, which sits on a 2500 square foot deck of recycled composite material, includes 28 cedar [...]

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Aquaponics In A Vertical Urban Farm In Chicago

May 17, 2010 Aquaponics

The Plant is a proposal for the adaptive reuse of a specific urban building, but it is also part of a larger vision. The vision is to build on Chicago’s industrial heritage, and to advance the city’s environmental goals, by reinventing old buildings for innovative new uses. The site where The Plant will be applying [...]

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Coastview Aquaponics

May 12, 2010 Aquaponics

Click to view more photos of Coastview Aquaponics in Hawaii.

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Vertical Garden Walls At The SF Garden Show

April 6, 2010 sustainable gardening

Craig Nakano reports in the Los Angeles Times on all the vertical garden walls at the San Francisco Garden Show,
Anyone blitzing through the annual San Francisco Flower & Garden Show may have been left with the impression that when the Bay Area isn’t planting Japanese maples or potting orchids, it’s installing vertical gardens. The show [...]

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Grow Real Green Food With Ease

April 2, 2010 Hydroponics

It has taken awhile but recently mainstream news has been reporting on hydroponics growing something other than cannabis. Laura Lynne Dyer reports in The St. Louis Globe-Democrat that growing greens like lettuce in a vertical hydroponic system is easy,
Want to know about growing your own food? Want self sufficiency, confidence and control to know your [...]

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Renaissance Ronin’s PVC Fence Garden

March 20, 2010 sustainable gardening

From the RenaissanceRonin blog,
Take 4? pipe and using a circle saw mounted in your drill, cut 2 1/2? holes in it,  spaced evenly along the lengths of your pipe.
If you want to be really “high-tech,” paint your pipe (on the outside… nobody’s gonna see the inside) black first. That way it’ll soak up the sun. [...]

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Living Walls Go Mainstream—Plant, Plug And Play Systems Now Available At Garden Centers

March 16, 2010 Media

The popularity of living green walls is evident now that “plant and play” modular systems are available at garden centers nationwide. A company called Bright Green USA is bringing the vertical garden concept to the garden center market this spring. Previously the “living walls” have been only available to architects and designers on the landscaping [...]

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The Ten Most Inspiring People In Sustainable Food

March 9, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Fast Company magazine lists and describes their The Ten Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food, many of which I have mentioned in posts the past year.  I am sure everyone has their own local list of inspiring people but these are the national ones that Fast Company recognizes.

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