SSLP - Urban Farming

magcle: Green Seating - Epic Win

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:55:14 -0400

Green Seating - Epic Win

storagegeek: How to Turn Coffee Tins into a Hanging Herb...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:34:33 -0500

How to Turn Coffee Tins into a Hanging Herb Garden » Curbly

Wow, this just might be the answer to my indoor herb garden dilemma! Check out the great how to over at Curbly!

Home remedies, recipes, and VooDoo.: Sewn plastic terrarium

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:43:52 -0500

Home remedies, recipes, and VooDoo.: Sewn plastic terrarium:

thediypanda:

Materials

heavy-weight clear vinyl (I used 20-gauge) — this is available at fabric stores

tissue paper (you can use the tissue that comes with the vinyl or regular gift-wrapping tissue)

small paperclips

scissors

cutting mat, straight edge and rotary cutter (optional)

glue gun…

organizeme: concrete planters

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:59:37 -0500

organizeme:

concrete planters

unconsumption: It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — time to share a...

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:34:15 -0400

unconsumption:

It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — time to share a wine-related repurposing find:

Wine corks used as plant markers! (spotted on Pinterest)

For additional wine-spiration, check out earlier Unconsumption posts here.

Cheers!

Don't know what to grow in your container garden?

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:07:08 -0400

Don't know what to grow in your container garden?:

homegrownfoodchallenge:

Want more info about container gardens? Find out Urban Garden’s suggestions for making an attractive container and what will last in the weather.

heart—strings: eggshells do continue to hold up...

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:30:03 -0400

heart—strings:

eggshells do continue to hold up surprisingly well for this purpose

Urban Garden Magazine

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:26:01 -0400

Urban Garden Magazine:

earthbeneathourfeet:

This is a new urban gardening magazine. It concentrates on hydroponics and organics, but has many articles that are applicable to any urban gardener.

curiositycounts: Large-scale 30-year study (PDF) demonstrates...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:33:21 -0400

curiositycounts:

Large-scale 30-year study (PDF) demonstrates that organic farming outperforms conventional agriculture on a number of economic, nutritional, and environmental factors

apartment garden

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:52:17 -0400

apartment garden

knitted plant bags

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:51:06 -0400

knitted plant bags

Vertical Planter

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:27:28 -0400

Vertical Planter

TerraCycle

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:26:49 -0400

TerraCycle

http://www.thegreengirls.com/blog/post/2011/08/scrapbookplastic.aspx

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:26:23 -0400

http://www.thegreengirls.com/blog/post/2011/08/scrapbookplastic.aspx

renaissanceremixed: Re-new: Urban Farming When I was 5 years...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:34:46 -0400

renaissanceremixed:

Re-new: Urban Farming

When I was 5 years old, my grandmother took me out into her yard and started teaching me how to plant a garden. At the time I thought nothing of it. I assumed that once we finished “playing in the dirt” we would go to the grocery store and buy our food like everyone else. What I failed to realize was that my grandmother came from a time and place where there were no grocery stores or readily available microwave dinners. My grandmother was simply doing what she was taught all her life…to do for self. My grandmother knew every step that the food she ate went through from planting, to harvesting, to preparation before she put it in her mouth.

In today’s society, we rely on everyone from grocery store managers, restaurant chefs and even the government to do one of the most basic things for us…FEED US. However, it appears that the outsiders that we entrust with our daily nourishment haven’t been doing a stellar job. Let’s examine the facts:
1. In the city of Detroit NO major grocery store chains exist (not much different from my grandmother’s upbringing huh?). Even if those stores did exist what would they provide? Listeria tainted cantaloupe. 2. Even more important, with the way the Michigan job market looks, could you even afford purchase the food they sold?? Today, October 1, 2011, thousands of Michigan families will be cut off from receiving welfare benefits. Those families will no longer be able to feed themselves.

Whether you agree or disagree with the welfare cut off, one fact is true for the majority of Detroit residents…If every grocery store closed today we would NOT survive! So before you turn up your nose and tell a story about how your grandfather supported your family with a 6th grade education and no welfare ask yourself…could you do the same thing??? We have educational degrees coming out of every orifice of our bodies but we have forgotten how to do a very basic task…FEED OURSELVES.

Urban farming is something that EVERY Detroiter needs to learn how to do. Start small with a window ledge herb garden. No matter what you decide to do you must consider how much longer you will continue to trust strangers to nourish your body before you decide to do it for yourself…

kate-estivill: I WANT this! A great product that allows anyone...

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:43:22 -0400

kate-estivill:

I WANT this! A great product that allows anyone to have a vertical garden. Now trying to find out how to get one in Spain…

Urban Gardening

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:16:34 -0400

Urban Gardening

15 minutes getting ideas for booklet on tumblr

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:15:44 -0400

15 minutes getting ideas for booklet on tumblr

wallacegardens: Brilliant! Abandoned dumpsters, sinks and...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:14:57 -0400

wallacegardens:

Brilliant! Abandoned dumpsters, sinks and newspaper boxes turned into urban planter gardens. Title: Guerilla Container Garden. I need to find a dumpster…..!

Planter Bricks Planter Bricks are bricks with small containers...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:14:47 -0400

Planter Bricks

Planter Bricks are bricks with small containers built on the outer edges that can hold plants and vegetation. According to Exit Gallery, “The planter brick curtain wall is designed to combine traditional masonry units with units that can hold plants and vegetation.” The concept is an interesting one – you can take an old, traditionally built building, retrofit it with a frame and attach a Planter Brick curtain filled with small plants. And like that, a curtain of green is covering your building. The retrofit frame also consists of a drip irrigation line built into the wall. This photo shows an artist’s rendering of a building with a wall of Planter Bricks, and below is a small Planter Brick.

Designed by: Rael San Fratello Architects
Virginia San Fratello and Ronald Rael