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World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Expands its Territory
At 40,000 square feet, the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in Long Island City is the largest of its kind. Anywhere. But the folks behind its growing success have decided that such an enormous space still doesn’t stand up under their ambitions.To hold onto their title, the Grange has recently decided to expand to a rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, adding more than 45,000 square feet to their current holdings.

yes.

Mmmmmm. Farmy. —A.P.

I want this to happen in Boise amd then all the cities in the world.

redeyednblue:

World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Expands its Territory

At 40,000 square feet, the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in Long Island City is the largest of its kind. Anywhere. But the folks behind its growing success have decided that such an enormous space still doesn’t stand up under their ambitions.To hold onto their title, the Grange has recently decided to expand to a rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, adding more than 45,000 square feet to their current holdings.

yes.

Mmmmmm. Farmy. —A.P.

I want this to happen in Boise amd then all the cities in the world.

January 25

Rooftop Garden

(Source: nevver, via urbanlandscapes)

December 11

In northwest Pasadena, access to healthful food is limited

latimes:

Just three supermarkets serve an area with 66,000 people. The Pasadena Public Health Department wants to set up a farmers market there next year.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

November 6

samadamspdxor:

“Probably not as good as Bibi’s (http://t.co/3EuIcEif) but today a couple of wonderful hours in my garden keeps the Kale chips-to-be crop growing.”

October 24

Thank a farm worker for putting food on your table!

An unprecedented number of consumers across America are questioning the system that puts food on their tables. Yet all too often, farm workers are left out of this discussion.

In California, farm workers have literally been paying with their lives when their employers fail to provide shade and drinking water during extreme temperatures. Nationally, farm workers die in workplace incidents five times more often than non-agricultural workers. Agriculture for most farm workers is hardly a sustainable profession.

Yet it should be, as we depend upon farm workers to put the wine, milk, fruits, vegetables and other products on our tables every day.

Today, consumers around the country are celebrating Food Day. Please add our voice to this movement for a healthier, more nutritious, just, humane and sustainable food supply. We ask that you take a moment not only to remember but to thank the workers who are in the fields rain or shine, hot or cold, to make sure our families enjoy the rich bounty of food we have come to expect.

(via itsthemusicpeople)

October 23

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Money and time. “I ride the bus to get to work,” Nicholas says. It takes an hour. “If I could drive, it would take me 10 minutes. I have to catch two buses.” She gets to the bus stop at 6:30 a.m. The bus is supposed to come every 10 or 15 minutes. Sometimes, she says, it comes every 30 minutes.

What could you accomplish with the lost 20 minutes standing there in the rain? Waiting. That’s another cost of poverty. You wait in lines. You wait at bus stops. You wait on the bus as it makes it way up Georgia Avenue, hitting every stop. No sense in trying to hurry when you are poor.

When you are poor, you wait.

The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More (via africansunset)

(via nelsonhoward)

September 5

thedailyfeed:

This farm provides organic food for a farmers market, CSA, and six organic restaurants, has zero carbon footprint, uses rainwater instead of irrigation, keeps chickens & rabbits for manure and nutrients, and uses compost for soil. It’s a closed loop system: everything that goes out can come back.

Where is this 6,000 square foot model organic farm? On a rooftop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Meet The Eagle Street Rooftop Farm.

May 2

davereed:

Spent Saturday helping build a community garden at my brother’s church in Beaverton. Here I am staking down weed barrier for the gravel paths

WOOT!

April 5

Check out the United States of Awesome.

I love positive

(Source: mothernaturenetwork, via flavorpill)

March 22

poptech:

“Is water still running?” is perhaps the most important question when considering water initiatives worldwide, concludes Water for People CEO Ned Breslin. He’s tired of seeing broken hand pumps and taps litter Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These signs of failed projects underscore the critical need to overhaul water aid for real impact.

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