‘Urban farming’ can mean many things. For some people it amounts to little more than growing herbs on their window sill — admirable, of course, but hardly what you could call a commercial enterprise.
Other urban growers, though, really are farming — in the sense of raising crops in volume that they then sell on to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘urban farming’
- real urban farming
Posted in food, tagged urban farming on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- farming your balcony
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged super-micro farming, urban, urban farming on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What if you want to be an urban farmer, but you don’t have an allotment or even a postage stamp-sized front or back yard to plant?
Well, you can take inspiration from the members of Food Up Front, an urban food-growing non-profit based in Balham, in south London. Even if all you have is a walkway, [...]
- urban farming: neat idea, but what about the wildlife?
Posted in food, gardening, plants and animals, tagged food security, monocultures, native plants, super-micro farming, urban farming on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday we wrote about ’super-micro farming’ as a trend emerging in response to possible threats to our food supplies.
There’s further evidence of the trend in the San Fransisco Chronicle’s most recent ‘Home and Garden’ section. In a multi-page cover feature, the paper does a nice job of surveying current efforts in the city to [...]
