Hoping to get your own urban farm started this year but unsure where to begin? Urban Patches is a website that can help! With interviews from current, economically successful urban farmers, best practices, and guides, Urban Patches hopes to make urban farming a new way of life for city dwellers. With unemployment high and many people looking for fresh, local food, Urban Patches offers a great way to connect with and learn from successful city farmers while getting your own backyard garden going.

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Living walls have been exploding in popularity over the last couple of years, but if you’re baffled about how to create one of your own, Urban Zeal planters are like vertical gardens for dummies. Their planters come in all shapes and sizes and you can customize the look of your green wall with your choice of plants. They even have indoor kits for people who want the look of a living wall but don’t have the outdoor space.

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Two students experimented with a mixture of soil and cement trying to create a brick that would be strong enough to keep its form, but also be porous enough to support plant life. Their idea, dubbed the ‘Earth Bank Living Wall System’, was recently installed on a shipping container at the Eugene Federal Courthouse Garden. The 3-inch thick wall was pre-planted with sedums with the goal of seeing whether or not the seeds would be able to germinate on the vertical concrete/soil environment. To date sedums and succulents are thriving and courthouse visitors and employees are pleased to have this new bit of beautiful greenery.

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