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July 9, 2013
Tokyo vertical gardens http://tokyo-diy-gardening.org/category/vertical-gardens/
Rooftop gardens in Beijing and Hong
Kong http://www.theperennialplate.com/episodes/2013/01/episode-110-a-tale-of-two-rooftops/
Hong Kong rooftop garden (in Chinese) http://www.cityfarm.hk/
Vertical forest in Milan, Italy nears completion http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/?p=207
Green Up rooftops http://www.avatar-architettura.it
Harvest geek or internet of things for your
garden http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077260917/harvestgeek-brains-for-your-garden
Urban beehive design http://design-milk.com/get-out-the-urban-beehive-by-rowan-dunford/
Asheville, NC urban farm school http://ashevillage.org/program/urban-farm-school/
FutureTech Farm: modular farm, "like Farmville with real
plants" http://seedstock.com/2013/01/17/startup-seeks-to-shape-future-of-urban-agriculture-withfish-automation-and-well-designed-hardware/
https://www.facebook.com/FutureTechFarm
Mapping available public lots in NYC and helping groups begin projects on
them http://596acres.org
Melbourne mobile air gardens http://inhabitat.com/airborne-worlds-first-rotating-air-gardensdebut-in-melbourne/
Tokyo business building grows food for employees on green walls http://inhabitat.com/pasonahq-is-an-urban-farm-that-grows-food-for-its-employees-in-tokyo/
Vertical forest office building in Vietnam http://inhabitat.com/vo-trong-nghia-architects-to-buildvertical-forest-office-building-in-vietnam/
Affordable apartments with rooftop farm in the Bronx http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-arbor-houseapartment-boasts-a-massive-rooftop-farm-and-affordable-rent-in-the-bronx/
Urban farming units, greenhouses in containers http://inhabitat.com/damien-chivialles-urbanfarming-units-transform-old-shipping-containers-into-greenhouses-for-organic-produce/
London's Elephant and Castle Urban Forest http://elephantandcastleurbanforest.com
Allston/Brighton apartment with gardens instead of parking
lots http://boingboing.net/2013/03/26/garden-apartment-redefined.html
Prefab farm and retail food store
http://www.thefarmery.com
Red Hook, NY one acre farm http://added-value.org
Strasbourg greened building microclimate
proposal http://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/CHAISE_URBAIN/#
----------------July 28, 2013
Urban Factory Farming: Industrial Agriculture Ecologies and LED Pinkhouses
According to the BBC (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130603-city-farms-to-feed-a-hungryworld/all), "Urban agriculture has the potential to become so pervasive within our cities that by the
year 2050 they may be able to provide its citizens with up to 50% of the food they consume."
The BBC forgets that the Victory Gardens of WWII produced close to 50% of US vegetables by
the end of WWII. At that rate, if we decided to, we could be producing at least 50% of our
vegetables from local urban and suburban gardeners before 2020 using only 1940s technology.
Besides the already existing community gardens and the rooftop gardens which are beginning to
spring up in places like Brooklyn and Boston, vertical farming in one form or another is now
happening in Japan, Korea, Singapore, the United States, and Canada. New vertical farms are
planned for Milwaukee (http://www.tkwa.com/growing-power-vertical-farm/), Memphis
(http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2012/nov/7/green-girl-to-create-indoor-vertical-farm/)
and Jackson Hole, Wyoming (http://www.verticalharvest.org)).
A project in Linköping, Sweden (http://www.the9billion.com/2012/02/22/construction-begins-forplantagon-vertical-farm-in-sweden/) is especially interesting as it will be an urban agriculture
industrial ecology, using heat from the neighborhood of a biogas plant and an incinerator, part of
the municipal district heating system. The vertical farm will use heat from waste incineration and
process waste from the greenhouse to produce biogas.
More at http://www.biorama.at/vertical-farming-in-linkoping-von-asiatischem-grunzeug-und-ledglashausern/ [in German]
Another aspect of urban agricultural industrial ecological design is illustrated at FarmedHere
(http://farmedhere.com) of Bedford Park, Illinois which operates a 90,000 square-foot (8,360
square meter) indoor farm producing tilapia (freshwater fish), a variety of leafy green vegetables,
and several other products. Such combined fish and plant systems can also be used to process
human or industrial wastes and even restore damaged local ecosystems as John Todd
(http://www.toddecological.com) and others have shown.
Another development is controlled environment agriculture (CEA), growing specialty crops in
closed systems under LED lights tuned directly to the red and blue wavelengths the plants use.
These are pinkhouses rather than greenhouses.
Barry Holtz of Caliber Biotherapeutics (http://www.caliberbio.com), which grows millions of plants
to make new drugs and vaccines in a 150,000-square-foot, 50 foot tall "plant factory", says "A
photon is a terrible thing to waste, so we developed these lights to correctly match the
photosynthesis needs of our plants. We get almost 20 percent faster growth rate and save a lot
energy…. We couldn't compete with iceberg lettuce farmers, but for certain specialty crops, the
economics wouldn't be so bad."
from http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/21/185758529/vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-ofurban-farming
More at http://www.ledinside.com/news/2013/5/lednews_201305281350
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August 22, 2013
Living Wall in London
http://www.rubenshotel.com/about-us/the-living-wall
October 22, 2013
Greater Yield: Series on Urban Agriculture
http://colabradio.mit.edu/introducing-greater-yield-a-series-on-urban-agriculture/
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----------------------November 5, 2013
http://www.hyperlocalmarket.com
London student's design for marketing local food
http://solefoodfarms.com
Vancouver, BC's largest urban orchard in North America
http://inhabitat.com/shanghai-shopping-mall-sprouts-a-flourishing-urban-garden/
Shanghai urban garden in shopping mall
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/the-empire-state-building-gets-a-9100-sq-ft-green-roof-by-xero-flor/
Empire State Building's new green roof
http://inhabitat.com/wilkinson-eyres-carbon-positive-singapore-gardens-by-the-bay-wins-the2013-riba-lubetkin-prize/
Singapore's Gardens by the Bay net positive carbon 2 hectare greenhouses
http://www.cityfarmer.info/2013/07/30/new-york-citys-first-rooftop-farm-circa-1904/
NYC's first rooftop farm at Ansonia Hotel from 1904-1906
NYC and disaster food supply
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/10/new-yorks-looming-food-disaster/7294/
Indoor aquaponics gardening system
http://www.aqualibrium.com
Cleveland's 66th Street Biocellar - a passive solar greenhouse on the footprint of an abandoned
house
http://www.neighborhoodsolutionsinc.com/nsichateauhoughbc.htm
Austria's edible pavilion for 2015 Milan expo
http://archinect.com/news/article/85308746/edible-austrian-pavilion-for-2015-milan-expo-bypenda-alex-daxb-ck
NYC Town Square Initiative
http://www.gensleron.com/cities/2013/6/10/town-square-initiative-new-york.html
Education and Agriculture
http://vimeo.com/78133130
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January 28, 2014
http://inhabitat.com/energaia-grows-algae-for-eating-on-rooftops-in-bangkok/#more-551188
spirulina farming on Bangkok rooftops
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/vo-trong-nghia-architects-layers-plantation-for-stackinggreen-01-23-2014/
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) multi-level garden house, same architect did green kindergarten:
http://www.inhabitots.com/the-farming-kindergarten-boasts-a-rooftop-vegetable-garden-wherestudents-grow-their-own-food/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130731093456.htm
CCS with desert jatropha carbon farming
http://noreturnticket.kceridon.com.
Kimi Ceridon, the Boston Metro Organizer for NOFA/Mass, is involved in local food and personal
food production. Along with her husband, she raises chickens, has two bee hives, and a 6-bed
organic garden to supplement her meat, fish, grain, and vegetable CSA shares. With so much
abundance, there is ample opportunity for fermenting, canning, preserving, drying, and
freezing. Kimi recently started the Master of Gastronomy program at Boston University where
she is focusing on food systems and food policy.
http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/build-garden-city-you-have-plan-plant.html
Singapore's planned "City in a Garden"
http://www.jgdomestic.com/tour.html
http://inhabitat.com/jg-domestic-americana-restaurant-serves-up-a-living-wall-of-herbs-inphiladelphia/
Philadelphia restaurant with a wall of herbs
http://inhabitat.com/futuristic-forts-of-fanaticism-cater-to-obsessive-gardeners-fishermen-sportbuffs-car-lovers-and-computer-geeks/forts-of-fanaticism-visiondivision-2/?extend=1
Swedish vision of housing development for gardeners
http://sill-to-sill.tumblr.com
Hackney City Farm plant shop
http://inhabitat.com/newly-released-photos-show-the-bosco-verticale-vertical-forest-nearingcompletion-in-milan/
Milan's vertical forest
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/AB551+urban+agriculture
CA urban land law
-----------------------March 15, 2014
Garden skyscraper project for Berlin
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/24/green8-twisted-skyscraper-by-agnieszka-preibisz-and-petersandhaus/
http://www.apcon-berlin.de/projects/projectsdetail/controller/Project/id/1/action/show/
http://petersandhaus.blogspot.de/2013/11/green8-vertical-garden-city-for-berlin.html
London underground LED "pink house" ag project
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=2
3829
O'Hare Airport's aeroponic gardens
http://www.earthtechling.com/2013/06/ohare-airports-vertical-aeroponic-garden-takes-flight/
http://www.flychicago.com/OHare/EN/AboutUs/Sustainability/Aeroponic-Garden.aspx
46 floor vertical garden to be built in Sri Lanka
http://www.clearpointresidencies.com
Growing Cities - movie about US urban gardening
http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com
Can NYC grow all its own food?
http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/can-nyc-be-completely-self-reliant/
Flavor Orchard for Kunming, China
http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-flavoursorchard.html
Hong Kong guerrilla gardeners
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2014/03/hong_kong_s_guerrilla_gardener
s_how_to_grow_sweet_potatoes_and_mangoes_in.single.html
Maa-bara - low-tech, low-cost kits for aquaponics in the developing world: grow food anywhere
http://maabara.org
Northern CA initiative to reduce food waste while promoting local ag and good nutrition
http://cropmobster.com
Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland builds a multilevel aquaponic system within an old
disused mill as a modern urban farm
http://inhabitat.com/queens-university-students-turn-an-abandoned-mill-into-a-flourishing-urbanfarm/
Queens University partnered with Biospheric Foundation which is also doing some other
interesting things:
http://www.biosphericfoundation.com/projects/
---------------------April 29, 2014
Second highest living wall in Medellin, Colombia
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-second-tallest-living-wall-completed-in-medellin-colombia/
Urban jungle streetview - overlay Google street map views with living walls and green roofs
http://inear.se/urbanjungle/nosupport.html
Green garden parking structure planned for Copenhagen
http://inhabitat.com/jaja-architects-reinevent-the-parking-garage-into-a-green-communitygathering-space-with-park-n-play/
Residential garden towers for Casablanca, Morocco
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/edouard-francois-the-gardens-of-anfa-morocco-03-182014/
Foodcloud - Irish start-up: by app, or through the website, businesses who have registered with
Foodcloud, can upload details of their surplus food and the time period in which the food can be
collected.The app then automatically sends a text message to the nearest community
organisation in that area.If they can use the food on offer, they accept the offer and collect it
directly from the business.
http://foodcloud.ie
Japan’s railway station rooftop farms and community gardens
http://inhabitat.com/rooftop-farms-on-japanese-train-stations-serve-as-community-gardens/
http://popupcity.net/japanese-commuters-grow-veggies-on-train-station-rooftops/
http://www.soradofarm.com - in Japanese
Net zero vertical farm in Chicago
http://inhabitat.com/food-waste-fuels-vertical-farming-in-chicago/
Todmorden’s Aqua Garden
http://inhabitat.com/todmorden-uk-expands-edible-garden-initiative-with-flourishing-aqua-farm/
http://incredibleaquagarden.co.uk
Hanz Farm Detroit - large scale urban agriculture project
http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/introduction.html
Vertical farm for USA pavilion at Expo Milano 2015
http://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/architecture-usa-pavilion-expo-milano
-------------------------June 18, 2014
Tallest indoor living wall in Quebec
http://inhabitat.com/the-currents-worlds-tallest-indoor-living-wall-sprouts-in-quebec-city
Green roof farm for Vietnamese kindergarteners
http://votrongnghia.com/projects/farming-kindergarten/
French Pavilion for Milan Expo 2015 grows its own food on walls and ceiling
http://inhabitat.com/frances-2015-world-expo-pavilion-challenges-world-hunger-with-a-farm-totable-design/french-pavilion-world-expo-2015-by-xtu-architects-3/?extend=1
Milan Expo 2015 looks like it will have a number of innovative sustainable designs for buildings,
some of which will be permanent.
Falling Fruit is a giant, global, collaborative map of urban food sources - currently pointing the
way to over 700 edible types (everything from fruits and nuts to water wells and dumpsters) in
over half a million locations worldwide.
http://fallingfruit.org
Crowd-funding campaign for a mobile app!
http://www.barnraiser.us/projects/fallingfruit-org-mobilize-the-urban-harvest
Ripe Near Me - "Why not have a site that allows foodies to connect with growers? Wouldn't it be
cool if we could get all our fresh food from the local neighbourhood?…” - from Australia
http://www.ripenear.me
A large indoor commercial farms with LED lighting at the AmeriPlex Industrial Park in Indianapolis
http://greensensefarms.com
20,000 square foot rooftop garden planned for Brooklyn hotel
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014/05/jetsons-like-design-planned-for-hotel-at-55-wytheavenue-in-north-williamsburg/
Vertical garden house in Tokyo
http://inhabitat.com/ryue-nishiziwas-gorgeous-vertical-garden-house-grows-in-tokyo/ryuenishizawa-vertical-garden-house-tokyo-japan/
Interview with Eric Mandu on aquaponic gardens for as internet-connected resources
http://inhabitat.com/interview-eric-mandu-on-turning-aquaponic-gardens-into-an-internetconnected-resource/
World’s largest vertical garden in Singapore
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-vertical-garden-at-the-singapore-tree-house-condominiumsets-new-guinness-record/
-------------------------July 23, 2014
Fairmount - DIY green roof or garden kit
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/239445008/fairmount-living-tiles
World’s largest indoor farm
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/former-semiconductor-factory-becomes-worldslargest-indoor-farm.html
http://youtu.be/985rJxlWuWk?list=PLK2LsIp0FxT9uCrMJTzo7zYJiekrQ5gNo
Antwerp 24 story tower garden neighborhood
http://www.cfmoller.com/g/Residential-tower-in-Antwerp-won-i13350.html
Modular urban farming structure
http://inhabitat.com/ova-studio-proposes-jenga-like-modular-farming-structure-to-bring-freshgreens-to-urban-centers/
Open Food Network - crowd funded food hub to consumer network
https://openfood.com.au
Chicago’s Green Healthy Neighborhood Plan
http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/programs-and-resources/lta/ghn-chicago
Osaka’s Namba Park’s eight level rooftop gardens
http://www.jerde.com/featured/place57.html
Basel, Switzerland's modular aquaponic farming system
http://www.urbanfarmers.com
http://www.iune.zhaw.ch
Singapore’s floating high-rise farms
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/forward-thinking-architecture-japa-floating-responsiveagriculture-07-18-2014/
Food forest planted in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-s-first-food-forest-planted-in-the-rivervalley-1.2712605
Rainwater harvesting vertical garden on historic Barcelona theater (Spanish)
http://www.urbanarbolismo.es/blog/?p=2640
------------------------August 27, 2014
Montreal’s open source mapping of wild places
https://www.facebook.com/wildcitymapping
NYC’s urban farming data collection tool kit
http://www.farmingconcrete.org/barn/data-collection-toolkit/
Video of the largest rooftop farm, Brooklyn Grange, being built - hat tip to Greg Watson
http://nationswell.com/brooklyn-grange-largest-rooftop-farm-world-video/
South Korea sky farm - hat tip Gil Friend
http://www.gizmag.com/aprilli-design-studio-urban-skyfarm/32954/
World Expo Milan: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life
http://www.expo2015.org/en
http://www.usapavilion2015.net - an edible wall of crops
31 Days of Urban Agriculture: Kickstarter art project - hat tip Fred Hapgood
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindsaycurren/31-days-of-urban-agriculture
Shipping containers as vertical farms
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/shipping-container-repurposed-vertical-urbanfarm.html
Sky Farm - 5000 square foot garden at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis
http://land-collective.com/projects/eskenazi-health-hospital/
Vertecology - hanging garden system
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mark-scott-lavin/the-vertecology-hanging-garden-grow-foodbeautiful
Farm Box Direct - home delivery of organic produce week by week
https://www.farmboxdirect.com
Falling Fruit - world map of publicly available fruit for foraging
http://fallingfruit.org
-------------------------------October 21, 2014
Vertical garden at the entrance of a Barcelona restaurant - ornamental rather than edible garden
http://www.urbanarbolismo.es/blog/?p=2856 [Spanish]
Vertical garden designs including an air conditioning and filtering system
http://www.unusualgreen.com/vertical-gardens/?lang=en
Wuhan, China mixed-use development with community gardens designed in
http://inhabitat.com/wuhan-park-place-lifestyle-project-merges-urban-farming-and-high-densityliving-in-china/
http://www.5plusdesign.com/projects/?p=8888
Tokyo office building has green walls and a working farm - hat tip Helen Snively
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/09/12/urban-farming-and-corporate-culture-collide-in-thistokyo-office-building/
World’s tallest vertical garden
http://inhabitat.com/the-worlds-tallest-vertical-garden-lives-and-breathes-in-sydney/
Hanoi’s houses for trees
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/clever-idea-creating-houses-built-trees/#slide-id-1579767
Chicago’s world’s largest rooftop farm (so far)
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/08/urban-agriculture-grows-into-worlds-largest-rooftop-farm/
Hive Inn modular city farm - hat tip inhabitat.com
http://www.ovastudio.com/works/hive-inn™-city-farm
City Trees: zero net energy high rises for China
http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-citytrees.html
Milan, Italy’s “Bosco Verticale” is now complete
http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/portfolios/bosco-verticale/
--------------------------------January 8, 2015
Seoul City Hall’s 7 story indoor green wall
http://inhabitat.com/7-story-indoor-green-wall-is-as-an-enormous-air-filter-for-solar-poweredseoul-city-hall/
Garden bridge over the Thames?
http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21632630-crossing-thames
Jellyfish barge, a floating garden
http://www.studiomobile.org/Jellyfish-Barge
Plantui soil-free indoor “smart” garden with an intelligent light system and automatic watering
pump
http://plantui.com/products-plants/smart-gardens/
Lettuce Evolve hydroponic, aquaponic, or soil garden structure
http://lettuceevolve.com
Ecofarm starter aquaponics growing system
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1880042535/ecofarm-grow-fresh-food-with-your-own-miniecosyst
Jewel Changi airport for Singapore, an architectural biome from Moshe Safdie
http://www.msafdie.com/#/projects/projectjewel
Largest indoor living wall
http://www.habitathorticulture.com/gallery/foundry-square-iii/#1
Foundation for Polish Science's green wall
http://faab.pl/projekty/siedziba_fundacji_na_rzecz_nauki_polskiej__k2_131.html?lang=en
Daisy smart phone plant care app
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalspring/give-your-indoor-plants-a-voice-to-stay-healthy
Agora Tower garden building for Taipei, Taiwan
http://menis.es/agora-garden-luxury-condominium/
"The Harvesting Station is an urban device designed to activate the interstitial spaces of the city
and turn them productive. It can grow up to 200 plants in four square meters by keeping them
protected from animals and air pollution."
http://www.conceptualdevices.com/2014/12/harvesting-station-a-reclaiming-device-for-theinterstitial-spaces-of-the-city/
-----------------------------February 18, 2015
Grove Labs - home aquaponics start-up from two MIT grads
https://grovelabs.io
"Apitronics is an open platform for farm data collection. Suited to the outdoors, our system of
connected sensors helps farmers monitor environmental conditions, which allows them to make
more informed management decisions."
http://www.apitronics.com
Freight Farms - "The Leafy Green Machine is a complete farm-to-table system using an insulated
shipping container outfitted with vertical hydroponics, high efficiency LED lights, and an
automated climate control system."
http://freightfarms.com/
Vincent Callebaut's Smart City design for Paris is a series of growing walled towers
http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-parissmartcity2050.html
Renaissance Farms aquaponics farm in a container - global open source farming with each
pound sold matched with a pound to the food bank
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/renaissance-farms-1-for-1-opensource-aquaponics
Masdar integrated seawater biofuel and agriculture system
http://www.masdar.ac.ae/media-section/news/item/6448-sustainable-bioenergy-researchconsortium-awards-contract-to-construct-innovative-agriculture-and-energy-pilot-project-atmasdar-city
Vietnamese office complex with interwoven greenspaces
http://www.hpa.vn/srdp--iwmc-headquarters_pr113.aspx
Aqua Design Group's green walls
http://aquadesigngroup.com/green/
London Skygarden
http://skygarden.london/sky-garden
Barnraiser - agricultural crowdfunding site
https://www.barnraiser.us
Flying Garden Tower for Frankfurt Germany
http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/architecture/projects/flying-garden-tower/
Workplace Gardens - prospective and actual
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/office-future-will-have-you-climbing-walls.html
Root - smart countertop garden
https://www.facebook.com/ohnekafarms
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/root-a-smart-countertop-gardening-system
Swedish terrace townhouses with rooftop park
http://www.utopia.se/en/projects/hornsbruksgatan
-----------------------------March 15, 2015
Robotic Urban Farm System (RUFS)
http://www.bltrobotics.com/farm.php
Green balcony pathway
http://inhabitat.com/suspended-green-pathway-is-an-unexpected-alternative-to-a-balcony/
Parisian block rehab with hanging gardens
http://www.mvrdv.nl/news/Gaite_Montparnasse/
650 foot long green roof for a Parisian lab
http://www.pargade.com/index.php/fr/les-projets/pole-de-recherche-scientifique-et-technique-deparis-est/16
Brooklyn Cooperative alternative food production and consumption sites in an alternative
supermarket proposal for Admiral's Row
http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-35171
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/brooklyn-super-food.html
Future Growing - vertical aeroponic food farms utilizing patented Tower Garden® technology
https://futuregrowing.wordpress.com
Hong Kong farmers question high tech agricultural park
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1732187/farmers-question-plan-hi-tech-agriculturalpark-hong-kong
Jackson Hole, Wyoming Vertical Greenhouse
http://www.verticalharvestjackson.com/the-greenhouse/
NYC Javits Center green roof
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/javits-centers-massive-green-roof-becomes-an-urban-bird-oasis/#more92855
Slideshow on green roofs and living walls into fully living buildings
http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-architecture/green-roofs-living-walls-and-verticalfarms-are-all-morphing-living-green-buildings/
Luciano Pia's 25 Verde treehouse apartments in Turin, Italy
http://www.lucianopia.it/opere-e-progetti/2007-2012-25-green-25-verde/
http://divisare.com/projects/283279-Luciano-Pia-25-Verde
Newark NJ largest (so far) vertical farm project
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-indoor-vertical-farm-will-produce-2-million-pounds-of-soil-freefood-in-newark/
http://aerofarms.com
-------------------------------April 4, 2015
Tokyo vertical garden house
http://inhabitat.com/ryue-nishiziwas-gorgeous-vertical-garden-house-grows-in-tokyo/ryuenishizawa-vertical-garden-house-tokyo-japan-3/?extend=1
Senegal, Dakar's urban agriculture - 45% of the food supply
http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/11/26/15343
"PlantLab could grow fruit and vegetables for the entire world in a space smaller than Holland"
http://www.plantlab.nl
Epiphytic plants on skyscrapers to clean the air - Melbourne
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/extreme-gardening-on-the-92nd-floor-of-the-eureka-tower20150323-1m45sm.html
Lufa Farms, Montreal's original rooftop farm
http://globalnews.ca/news/1901306/lufa-farms-takes-gardening-to-a-whole-new-level/
Urban/rural food study of NYC Greenmarket coming from Cornell
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/20/farmers-markets-helping-rural-communities
Chinese urban farming
http://www.designboom.com:8080/architecture/new-urban-farming-in-china-3-22-2015/
Popup forest for Times Square Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/popupforest/build-a-popup-forest-in-times-square-nyc
Urban vineyard in Cleveland
http://www.growingproduce.com/fruits/grapes/from-riots-to-vineyard-a-story-of-urban-revival/
MA Food Plan
http://www.mafoodplan.org/#home
Berlin aquaponics farm
http://agri.eu/the-largest-european-urban-aquaponics-farm-openned-in-berlin-news6442.html
Seattle's City Fruit harvests nearly 14 tons of unused fruit from urban plantings
http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/city-fruit-working-preserve-urban-fruit-trees-andincrease-amount-fruit-harvested-them.html
Chicken cabinet
http://www.core77.com/posts/35613/Ton-Mattons-Chicken-Cabinet
Wendorf Academy - German urban/rural ag school and laboratory
http://www.werkstattwendorf.de/WW/academy/academy.html
Drought farming: Intertribal Gatherings sharing traditional ecological knowledge of Colorado
Plateau in face of climate change
http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/intertribal-gatherings
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The Food Keeper contains food safety and storage advice to help you maintain freshness and
quality of foods - smart phone app and hardcopy
http://www.fmi.org/industry-topics/consumer-affairs/food-keeper-food-storage-database
Vertical farm in Seoul, South Korea
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/686804.html
Air Orchard in Lima, Peru - water harvesting billboard farm
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044893/this-water-harvesting-billboard-doubles-as-an-urban-farm
Chicago's fruit farm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-urban-fruit-farm-chicago-met-20150415story.html
Seoul city government spending 46 million U.S. dollars to establish 18-hundred vegetable
gardens within a ten-minute walking distance from all homes by 2018
http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=178734
FAO's urban agriculture program
http://www.fao.org/urban-agriculture/en/
Urban Skyfarm
http://www.lostateminor.com/2015/05/08/wow-this-stunning-high-rise-hydroponic-farm-has-beendesigned-for-big-cities-across-the-globe/
Mobile garden in MIlan
http://www.a4a.it/installazioni-eventi/why-not-in-the-garden
Habitat 67 at 50 - Moshe Safdie's Montreal modular apartments with gardens
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/13/habitat-67-montreal-expo-moshe-safdie-historycities-50-buildings-day-35
Vertical farming in Detroit
http://www.elkharttruth.com/news/michigan/2015/05/10/Vertical-farming-spouts-in-Detroit-sBrightmoor-district.html
Farmers Business Network - an idea that can be applied to urban agriculture too?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/05/19/google_of_agriculture_farmers_business_vent
ures_uses_big_data_to_empower.html