Apartment Therapy Tagged: urban farming

New Sustainable Living Magazine: Urban Farm

The magazine publishing market is so rocky these days that we consider the launch of any new title an act of bravery. It is fitting, then, that one of the latest additions to newsstands promotes the...

Rooftop Farms: Urban Farming in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Founders Annie Novak and Ben Flanner at the Rooftop Farm on Eagle Street 200,000 pounds of soil, 1,000 earthworms, and 6,000 square-feet of industrial rooftop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn: not a typical ...

A Secret Farm in San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle 7.19.2009

If only every empty lot in every urban area in every U.S. city looked like Alemany Farm, 4.5 acres of formerly abandoned land (where neighbors used to toss their junk) that is now a thriving urban fa...

Become an Urban Farmer

OK, so you've read No-Impact Man and Fritz Haeg. If it’s time to try your hand at the land, SPIN Farming intends to help you do it for fun and yes, profit. You don’t even need a yard of your own. ...

Blogging CNN: Urban Homesteaders in Pasadena, CA

If you had a little 2-bedroom bungalow (completely paid off) on 1/10th of an acre in Pasadena, CA, what would you do with it? How about turning it into your livelihood -- a fully operational urban ...

Blogging New York magazine: The Locavore Fantasia

New York magazine had a little fun in their most recent issue. They asked four architects to design their dream structure at the corner of Canal and Varrick Streets in New York. One architect went ...

The Chicken or the Egg: Do You Have an Urban Coop?

We'd love to chat with those of you who keep chickens (or other livestock) in an urban or suburban area. What's it like? What are the challenges? Are the fresh eggs immeasurably better than the one...

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