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TEDxDirigo - Roger Doiron - A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard

Occupy your Backyard.

(via @punkrockgardens)

13 April 11

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sustainable-sam:

Use Citrus Peels To Start Your Seedlings

13 August 10

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5 Foods It's Cheaper To Grow Than Buy

via themattsmith

25 April 10

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Rooftop farming booms in New York

“On the other side of Manhattan, in the posh Upper East Side, Eli Zabar, owner of the upscale Vinegar Factory delicatessen, inspects the crops he is growing on the roof of the old factory bought in 1991.

“I grow heirloom tomatoes, lots of different kinds of lettuce, herbs, basil, rosemary, thyme, raspberries, figs, beets.

“We use the heat of the bakeries and pastries, we recycle the heat. With the use of the heat we have eliminated our (carbon) footprint.

“You harvest in the morning, you sell in the afternoon, you don’t refrigerate, it tastes better… We pick everything ripe and ready to eat. All our products here are organic.”“

16 November 09

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Gardening for Gumbies - the Roll-Out Veg Mat | inhabitat.com

“Chris Chapman is an early twenties British designer who balked at the idea of studying design to make ‘pretty things for wealthy, privileged consumers.’ So he changed tack and learned design-for-sustainability instead. He now has a quiver of cool green projects ready to fling at prospective clients or employers.

“The one that most captured our attention was his Roll-Out Veg Mat. Each season householders buy a new roll of corrugated cardboard impregnated with vegetable seeds. Simply roll out the cardboard and cover with soil. Presto! Near instant veggie garden.

“Chris’ idea shows that he understands that some of the hurdles to going green have nothing to politics. Oftentimes they come down to simply not having the available hours in the day to make good things happen.”

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29 January 09

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Spring Gardens Start With Winter Reading

a great list of books to get your healthy garden going. i, for one, hope to take up Square Foot Gardening this spring.

15 January 09

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Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture

urbangreens:

an exhibit in Toronto, February 25th – April 30th 2009

“This exhibition will show how the design of cities and buildings is enabling the production of food in the city. It will explore the role that creative design professionals have in relation to the food system of cities, and the impact that agricultural issues will have on the design of urban spaces and buildings as society addresses the issues of a more sustainable pattern of living. The focus will be on how the increasing interest in growing food within the city, supplying food locally, and food security in general is changing urban design and built form.”

5 January 09

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7 Habits of Successful Gardeners

* Make Compost
* Use Compost
* Plant Crops in Wide Beds
* Mulch
* Feed the Soil, not the Plants
* Share Something
* Be There

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh