EAT UPmajor league crops
The Kansas City Royals may have won this year’s World Series, but the Boston Red Sox were the real 2015 winners. While this American League team’s game may not have been up to snuff, it’s historic stadium…
no water? no problem.
All this talk about high-tech rooftop farming makes my hungry for a good old fashioned DIY project. Presenting: the self watering planter. As you may recall from an earlier post, “the naked truth,” my Philadelphia row home roof…
feeding our city + our soul
Urban agriculture has crawled up walls and fire escapes onto rooftops across North America. As we cultivate our rapidly greening skyline, we’re hungry to learn the potential of the blossoming Rooftop Agriculture movement. On March 5th…
seedling envy
Behind on starting your seedlings this year? Don’t fret! Thanks to this winter’s polar vortex you’re not alone; we’re all a bit behind. With frosty nights and spring (hopefully) around the corner, it’s time to hit the seed…
Beantown is blooming
Nine stories up atop the Boston Design Center, the city’s first commercial rooftop farm has taken root. Higher Ground Farm‘s first season is well under way as founding farmers John Stoddard and Courtney Hennessey tend to 2,000…
EAT UP on You Bet Your Garden
As a gardener I’ve listened to You Bet Your Garden for over 10 years. Not religiously, but often enough to keep up with the latest tricks and trends in organic gardening around the country. The weekly…
sky-high winter greens
While rooftop farms around the country lay fallow for winter, one skyline gem continues to churn out greens. Noble Rot, a restaurant and wine bar in Portland, OR, supports a 3,000 square foot (0.07 acre) farm…
containers and raised beds and pouches, oh my
In many developed nations we are both blessed and cursed with an obscene breadth of consumer choices. With a selection as simple as what type of cereal to buy: low fat, high fiber, whole grain, multi-color… decisions can…
“Daddy, I want a cucumberrrr!”
Jay Sand, a home gardener in West Philadelphia, feeds his kids the freshest veggies on the block. The source? His own roof. Sand and his wife decided to renovate their spacious Victorian fixer-upper from bottom to…