urban farming and gardening

Lenten Roses are blooming during their namesake time of year. A colleague gave me tiny seedlings of these several years ago and now they have spread, soldiering on through several years of historic drought.

San Francisco’s city urban planning agenda clashes with neighborhood sustainability projects.

Students and teachers get fresh air, fresh food, and learn in new ways while building and tending school gardens. What’s not to like?

Imagine urban sprawl in reverse, where abandoned real estate is cleared to plant trees—that is the idea behind a proposal for Detroit’s east side, which may soon become the site of the nation’s largest urban farm.

With smokestacks and cranes in the distant view, it is hard to believe a 43,000-square-foot farm can exist on a rooftop.

Teenagers have a harder time finding work than any other age group.

Erin Barnes took the love for nature she found as a kid and studied how to help preserve it as a young adult.

Across the state, a little beetle is sought after by scientists, gardeners, and nature lovers alike. It’s a nine-spotted ladybug, the official state insect.

Seattle will soon be home to the nation’s largest urban food forest.

A distinguished group of panelists discussed their visions for feeding New York City on May 2 as part of a daylong event called Transforming Cities: How Food Systems Shape Cities at Solo Event Space.

In Our Backyards (IOBY), the only environment-focused, online crowd-sourcing platform, has been helping local community projects find micro-philanthropists.

A gigantic rooftop farm inside of a hydroponic greenhouse will be built on top of an abandoned warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, announced BrightFarms, which designs, builds, and operates hydroponic greenhouses.

Gardeners from all five boroughs swapped seeds, stories, and gardening tips at the 28th Annual GreenThumb GrowTogether at Hostos Community College in the Bronx on Saturday.

Brooklynites can watch their neighborhoods transform from empty lots to community hot spots by viewing the map at 596acres.org.

A school of thought among urban gardeners holds that African-Americans do not get involved in growing crops partly due to a lingering awareness of their enslaved ancestors cotton-picking days.