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A Former Corporate Banker Plants New Roots in Urban Farming

Like many graduates of MBA programs, Alejandra Rodriguez Boughton starts her day around 6 a.m. But she isn’t up early to check the financial headlines. Instead, the day’s weather is her primary concern

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Urban Farmer Transforms Community Into Thriving Local Food Haven

Most people don't move to New York City and become farmers. Sheryll Durrant certainly wasn't planning to when she left Jamaica for Manhattan in 1989. 

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Urban, Agriculture, World IGrow PreOwned 4/10/17 Urban, Agriculture, World IGrow PreOwned 4/10/17

Mashambas Skyscraper

An area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer

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You Want Fresh? Dallas' Central Market is Growing Salad Behind The Store

Fresh is a word that’s used loosely in the grocery business

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Consultant: Erie Urban Farming Plan Must Engage Community

Charles Buki, whose firm authored the city’s comprehensive development plan, says urban agriculture could be a good fit for Erie with planning and citizen input

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Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/8/17 Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/8/17

NYC Luxury Condo Owners Want To Play Farmer

It may sound like a bad SNL sketch about Brooklyn hipsters, but it’s no joke. A luxury condo building in Brooklyn comes with a working farm

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Good Food 100 Restaurants List to Highlight Sustainable Restaurants

Starting in June, consumers will be able to choose a place to eat based on a restaurant’s sustainability rating, indicated by a number of “links.” These links are the mark of a new restaurant survey, rating system, and list called The Good Food 100 Restaurants™.

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Urban Farm In Victoria Expands, Hopes To Grow 10,000 lbs Of Produce

A Victoria food producer is expanding its operation at Dockside Green after growing more than 7,000 pounds of produce last year.

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The Art of Urban Farming

As our cities continue to expand, human beings are losing touch with nature. But the urban farming movement seeks to change this by encouraging people to grow vegetables and fruits in their yards, in empty lots in their neighborhood and in public spaces such as schools, universities, and hospitals.

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Studio Visits: Go Inside Square Roots’ Futuristic Shipping Container Farm In Bed-Stuy

In a Bed-Stuy parking lot, across from the Marcy Houses (you’ll know this as Jay-Z’s childhood home) and behind the hulking Pfizer Building, is an urban farming accelerator that’s collectively producing the equivalent of a 20-acre farm

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New School Students Research and Rethink Rooftop Urban Gardens

In 2014, Vice Media, having just moved into its their new offices in Williamsburg, worked with Brooklyn Grange to turn their expansive rooftop into a vegetable garden and recreational space for their employees to enjoy

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Redefining Urban Farming

As Central Oregon grows in population, more and more of its residents are living in homes and apartments with tiny yards, and in some cases no yard at all. While that can be a challenge to those interested in growing food, all is not lost

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Man Of Tomorrow: Metropolis Farms Founder Jack Griffin’s Revolutionary Technology Aims To Empower Communities Through Vertical Farming

Jack Griffin didn’t start his professional career with farming on the mind. He studied economics and physics, not horticulture, and ended up working as a Wall Street executive

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Activating Land For Freight Farming With Federal Realty Investment Trust

32 Shopping Centers Will Soon Be Home To The Leafy Green Machine

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Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/3/17 Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/3/17

OpenAG: Urban Farming With Computers

 Amy Bentley, co-founder of the NYU Farm Lab and Professor of Food Studies at NYU Steinhardt, is thinking about using the “Food Computer” at the NYU Farm Lab

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Sasaki Unveils Design for Sunqiao, a 100-Hectare Urban Farming District in Shanghai

Situated between Shanghai’s main international airport and the city center, Sunqiao will introduce large-scale vertical farming to the city of soaring skyscrapers

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Urban, Agriculture, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/1/17 Urban, Agriculture, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/1/17

Trumbull Conference Learns How Cleveland Man Went From Crime To Award-Winning Wine

The 73-year old took a vacant plot of land and turned it into an award-winning vineyard in the least likely of places—Hough, a predominately black community in desperate need in Cleveland’s inner city

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On Sustainability And Vertical Farming Systems

Just how sustainable are urban vertical farms? One reader recently noted in an e-mail that a business is setting up a vertical growing system within a metal shipping container in Arizona, “of all places.”

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Growing Green: From Cannabis To Lettuce

There is evidence of the growing interest in locally-sourced food all around us: farmer’s markets, public markets, community-supported agriculture (CSA) memberships, and farm-to-table restaurants are all on the rise. Here, in New England, there are several factors which make indoor farming a key part of the local foods movement:

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With Floating Farm, New York Looks to the Future of Public Parks

 Located on a 5,000-square-foot barge, "Swale" will include 4,000 square feet of solar-powered growing space, including a perennial garden, an aquaponics area, and an apple orchard sponsored by Heineken USA's Strongbow Apple Ciders atop a large man-made hill. (The hill allows deeper root space for fruiting trees.)

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