3 Things Getting In The Way Of Your Urban Farm—And What You Can Do About It
January 18, 2016Growing food in the city isn’t without its challenges, but there are things you can do to start living out your farming dream right where you are.
Can I Sell at a Farmers’ Market as an Urban Farmer?
January 18, 2016Farmers’ markets aren’t an exclusive club only meant for rural farmers. Amp up your urban operation, and start selling what you grow at market.
5 Urban Farming Lessons
January 18, 2016Take these five lessons from the top of the urban-farm food chain to improve your backyard, rooftop, patio or community garden.
Rooftop Farm Grows Hops For Local Breweries
December 15, 2015The Tinyfield Roofhop Farm has provided hops to make the Lithology Tinyfield Amber Ale.
German Farm Sells Eggs Via A Vending Machine
December 2, 2015Free-range eggs are available round the clock from a streetside machine.
World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Opens In Chicago
November 24, 2015Chicago is one of my favorite cities in the world and now that it’s home to the world’s largest rooftop farm, it’s even better. Urban farming company Gotham Greens opened the farm on Chicago’s South Side in the Pullman area. This marks the company’s fourth greenhouse facility and the first one they’ve built outside of […]
Construct Your Own Urban Farm With This Danish Kit
November 18, 2015Think you can’t build your own urban farm? Think again!
Flower Farm Helps Inmates Reintegrate Into Society
August 12, 2015JPLDesigns/iStock/Thinkstock Flowers for Dreams, a startup out of Chicago that donates portions of its proceeds to charity, is partnering with Cook County Jail as part of the facility’s urban farming initiative, Huffington Post reports. The program gives qualifying inmates the chance to tend the urban farm while learning horticulture, teamwork and job readiness skills. The […]
Get to Know Your Greens: The Kale Edition
November 3, 2014Kale is the perfect crop to grow in fall in winter—it sweetens as the weather cools!
