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The Farm is Merging With Food Retail Spaces

We’ve seen gardens on rooftops, vertical farms close to stores and even some selling gardening equipment to gardeners who are shopping for food. The farm is essentially merging with the food retail spaces we roam as consumers. It’s quite interesting

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Kimbal Musk’s Quest To Start One Million Gardens

The tech veteran and restaurateur (and brother of Elon) has been preaching the ‘real food’ gospel for years — and his newest project may be his most ambitious yet

IGrow PreOwned 1/8/20 IGrow PreOwned 1/8/20

SOUTH KOREA: Urban Farming Bonds Communities In Seoul

Tucked away in a dark, damp corner of an underground parking lot in Nowon-gu, northeastern Seoul, mushrooms mature under fluorescent lights. The vertical farm is tended by residents who live right above it, in Sanggye Hyundai Apartment Complex.

IGrow PreOwned 7/30/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/30/19

US: Pennsylvania - State Agriculture Secretary Tours 3 Urban Gardens In Erie

State and local officials toured urban gardens in Erie Wednesday as part of Urban Agriculture Week activities in Pennsylvania

IGrow PreOwned 6/28/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/28/19

Verdeat Is Launching A Kickstarter For Its Hydroponic Garden System For The Home

Poznań, Poland-based company Verdeat announced this week it will launch a Kickstarter campaign in July for its modular vertical farm meant to fit inside apartments, offices, and other non-commercial spaces.

IGrow PreOwned 6/15/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/15/19

Sustainable Sales Is Excited To Announce That GardenSoxx Are Now Available In Both Full Sized Rolls, One Foot Increments, and In Retail Packaging

GardenSoxx® is an innovative gardening system that combines our patented mesh technology with high-quality growing media

IGrow PreOwned 5/1/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/1/19

Italy: Lidl Trials Its First Shop To Have An Urban Garden

A few weeks ago people were talking about the plans of El Corte Ingles to install a vertical garden in their store in Valladolid, now their focus is on Lidl, which has put into operation its first store in the world with an urban garden

IGrow PreOwned 4/6/19 IGrow PreOwned 4/6/19

Farm Refreshed: UrbanKisaan

Urban Kisaan seeks to revolutionise the concept of urban gardens with hydroponic farming methods

IGrow PreOwned 3/31/19 IGrow PreOwned 3/31/19

Video: Australian Gardener Harvests Over 400 Kilos of Food From Her Gardens

The garden is maintained with approximately half a day each week, though this is unevenly distributed throughout the season. Surplus is preserved using bottling, drying, freezing and fermenting to supply the kitchen during the leaner months

IGrow PreOwned 11/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/23/18

Introduction To Upside Down Gardening

Here’s what the experts at Fantastic Gardeners advise in order to get yourself up to speed with an upside-down garden.

IGrow PreOwned 9/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 9/26/18

This Toronto Skyscraper Is Covered With 450 Trees

A new tower will have greenery lining the balconies and roofs to clean up the air and provide a new environment for pollinators and humans alike.

IGrow PreOwned 9/19/18 IGrow PreOwned 9/19/18

Imagining The Impossible: The Futuristic Designs of Vincent Callebaut

New Atlas takes a look at Vincent Callebaut's most interesting architectural designs.

IGrow PreOwned 8/18/18 IGrow PreOwned 8/18/18

How Georgia O’Keeffe’s Garden Keeps Growing, Three Decades After Her Death

O’Keeffe, who is known to have been an extremely healthy eater, had wanted a garden to grow her own produce.

IGrow PreOwned 7/25/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/25/18

These Low-Tech Indoor Gardens Bring Vegetables To Your Kitchen

While some indoor farming companies operate in sprawling buildings–like Aerofarms, with a 70,000-square foot, tech-filled farm inside a former steel mill in Newark, New Jersey–a small startup called Aggressively Organic is focused on increasing indoor farming one square foot at a time.

IGrow PreOwned 5/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/23/18

Is it Really Safe To Eat Food Grown In Urban Gardens?

I wanted to start a vegetable garden in my backyard. But my yard is in Brooklyn, a land of street garbage, truck exhaust, and stray cats. So I decided to figure it out: Was it really safe to grow food there?

IGrow PreOwned 4/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/26/18

The Rise Of The Agrihood: Farmscape Helps Companies And Communities Grow Their Own

Imagine, you come home from work, head out into the garden and pick your salad for supper. Or how about swinging past the neighborhood urban farm at the weekend and pick some fruit for Sunday lunch.

IGrow PreOwned 4/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/15/18

South Bronx Social Entrepreneur Henry Obispo Creates a Green Revolution and Sustainable Design, in Collaboration With Suny Farmingdale Students, for BORN JUICE

Mr. Obispo focuses on creating a hyperlocal system, where food is grown and harvested by local youth, used and produced in food served to the community by a local workforce, in the quest to reverse many of the health disparities in one of the largest food deserts in the country.

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Canada: A Garden On Every Corner

In Vancouver, British Columbia, one social enterprise looks to make the most of unused urban space by converting empty lots into temporary community gardens

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When Farm-to-Table Comes To Your Own Front Yard

After operating a roaming pop-up dinner party series called Kali Dining, chef Kevin Meehan, who grew up in Long Island, N.Y., and has cooked at the Los Angeles restaurants L'Orangerie, Bastide and Citrine, opened Kali restaurant on Melrose Avenue in 2016.

IGrow PreOwned 3/25/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/25/18

Return Of The Good Life: The New Craze For Front Garden Allotments

FORGET neatly trimmed hedges, tidy rows of begonias and well-tended lawns. An increasing number of 21st century growers in Scotland claim it's time to rebel against the short back and sides approach traditionally taken to front gardening in towns and cities and start making use of them as practical – but beautiful – allotments for growing fruit and veg.