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Urban Bee Colony Arrives Atop Restaurant In Downtown Appleton, WI

While Appleton has allowed beekeeping inside the city limits since 2015, it took additional permitting to allow bees in the business district. Appleton’s first downtown apiary is on the roof of the CopperLeaf Hotel, which is attached to the restaurant.

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Brooklyn Urban Farming Program Cultivates Opportunity In The Projects

After graduating from an Urban Farm Corps program, Paul Philpott is running his own hydroponic farm business out of a shipping container in a Brooklyn parking lot

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New York: From A Convention Center’s Roof, ‘Walk-Off Vegetables’

Mr. Steel is planning a farm in the sky, on the roof of the extension being built at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the Far West Side of Manhattan, where he is not only the principal proselytizer for urban agriculture but also the president and chief executive.

IGrow PreOwned 6/27/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/27/18

Nourishing Cities With Nature

As rates of urbanization increase globally, city planners are working to reverse decades of reckless growth by returning nature to the built environment. Fortunately, technology and bold thinking can help strike a long-elusive balance.

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Driverless Cars And Climate Change Prompt Push For Urban Farming

Five kilograms of mushrooms, 100 heads of lettuce and 25 trays of micro-greens. These are the spoils so far from Mirvac’s urban farm pilot set up in the basement of its 200 George Street HQ in Sydney.

IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18

Rethinking Rooftops

Rooftop farming is intensive agriculture using engineered soil and irrigation on building roofs. Commercial rooftop farming is an emerging practice at the intersection of agriculture and urban planning, where economic and environmental returns are equally important.

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Kids Grow Salad Greens On An Urban Concrete Schoolyard

Hydroponic hothouse program introduces disadvantaged girls to organic, sustainable veggies and herbs for eating and selling.

IGrow PreOwned 6/25/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/25/18

Badia Farms Signs With Classic Fine Foods, Becoming Their First Local Partner In The UAE

The GCC’s first commercial vertical indoor farm, Badia Farms, is now the first local brand to have their products be distributed by Classic Fine Foods.

IGrow PreOwned 6/24/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/24/18

Ripple Farms Inc. Wins Ontario’s Social Enterprise of The Year Award Presented By Startup Canada

"It is an excellent milestone in a long journey ahead, as we continue the pursuit of answering the question – ‘How Many Can We Feed?’”

IGrow PreOwned 6/24/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/24/18

How To Become An Urban Farmer

Monica Rose tends to her thoughtfully planted culinary gardens as a painter would contemplate every stroke—she nourishes, pinches, gathers produce, replants.

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Urban Agriculture Could Transform Baltimore’s Blighted Neighborhoods

Today, there are more than 100 community and school gardens in Baltimore, as well as more than 20 urban farms and several organizations working to support urban producers.

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UA Magazine no. 34 – Measuring Impact

Assessment of the urban or city region food system is an important basis for improved and evidence-based policy-making and planning for more sustainable and resilient food systems.

IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18

Shepherding Vegetables From Roof to Restaurant

We grow produce on the roofs of two buildings in New York City, one atop Building 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the other in Long Island City in Queens. My workspace on top of the Standard Motor Products Building on Northern Boulevard in Long Island City has a 360-degree bird’s-eye view of all five city boroughs.

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NYCHA Residents Cultivate Urban Farms

Farms in New York City are pretty common. But when the farm is in the middle of an NYCHA housing complex, now that is uncommon.

IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18

Vertical Garden Towers Can Grow Plants Three Times Faster Than Normal

In a humid greenhouse on a rooftop in the Bronx, Electra Jarvis is showing off her oasis cubes. Tucked away from direct sunlight, a cabinet full of small, spongey squares are arranged neatly, each one the home to a sprouting seedling.

IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18

Farming In The City: DC’s Urban Agriculture Movement

Amidst the District’s hustle and bustle, green paradises breathe fresh air and deliciously colorful life into the otherwise grey and concrete landscape. For some, passion for urban farming comes from a deep love of an old hobby.

IGrow PreOwned 6/22/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/22/18

Kennett Officials Look At Possibility Of Expanding Role Of Indoor Farming

The Southern Chester County region has officially been found to be an ideal location for a center of excellence for indoor agriculture. “Indoor agriculture,” also known as an indoor farming and vertical agriculture, is simply the large-scale growing of food plants indoors.

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Is the Future of Farming Vertical?

Once again, America is having to rethink where and how it produces its food. In the 21st century, the U.S. food system is likely to change even more than it did in the past century.

IGrow PreOwned 6/22/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/22/18

CO2 Tips In Growing Microgreens

Vertical Farming and Microgreens are becoming popular, especially in urban areas. What we want to focus on today is having the right CO2 for your microgreens to yield the best product.

IGrow PreOwned 6/20/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/20/18

Urban Agriculture Startup Gotham Greens Closes $29 Million Round of Funding

The Brooklyn-based urban agriculture startup has closed a $29 million Series C financing round, bringing its total equity funding to $45 million.