More than 20 vegetables you can regrow from scraps
There is nothing more satisfying than growing your own produce and eating it. Small-scale urban farming can happen...
Check out Glasir, the tree-shaped urban farming solution
In a bid to revolutionize agriculture, New York City and Bergen-based innovation studio Framlab has proposed...
Kuehn Malvezzi tops a brick office building in Germany with an energy-efficient greenhouse
In the historic center of Oberhausen, Berlin-based architectural firm Kuehn Malvezzi has created a job center topped...
Studio NAB wants to rehab parking lots into energy-producing urban gardens
Paris-based design firm Studio NAB has unveiled a proposal for transforming the traditional asphalt parking lot...
Aquaponic gardens bring life to an unused balcony in an architects’ office
When a young architecture start-up in Vietnam went looking for office space, the Farming Architects team, led...
Farmscape helps communities embrace urban farming
The majority of the world’s population lives in cities, and thanks to the rising monetary and environmental costs...
A “floating” greenhouse is inserted behind a renovated Belgian home
Urban farming can be tough, especially when it’s in the middle of the densely packed Belgian city of Mechelen....
BIG weaves green roofs into a mixed-use development on stilts in Miami
Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled designs for a massive mixed-use development that is elevated into the air on thin...
The LEED Gold-seeking Edible Academy teaches urban farming in NYC
New York-based architecture firm Cooper Robertson and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects (MNLA) recently completed...
HOK designs aquaponics facility to alleviate Kansas City’s food desert
Nonprofit Nile Valley Aquaponics is raising fish in a Kansas City food desert—and they’re creating jobs, providing...
Brooklyn Grange announces a new location — in a former WWII shipyard
Inhabitat is thrilled to announce that New York City urban farming group Brooklyn Grange is launching its first...
Henning Larsen to revitalize Brussels region with rooftop farming and co-housing
A post-industrial region in Brussels will find a new lease on life thanks to the vision of Henning Larsen Architects....
This hexagonal indoor farm grows more food in less space with 90% less water
Hexagro's Living Farming Tree is a groundbreaking indoor garden that uses technology to grow food faster using...
Paris has a new underground – a massive farm for mushrooms and veggies
La Caverne is a unique urban farm that grows mushrooms, herbs and greens beneath the streets of Paris. Located...
This solar-powered floating farm combines agriculture and dining under one roof
As urban farming becomes increasingly popular, people are finding new, unexpected ways of incorporating agriculture...
6 urban farms feeding the world
A bustling city is the last place you'd ever expect to find a farm. But urban agriculture is alive and well, providing...
Green-roofed village shows a more sustainable way to rebuild after disasters
When the 8.0-magnitude Sichuan Earthquake devastated China in 2008, nearly 5 million people were left homeless....
World’s first solar-powered, indoor vertical farm sprouts in Philadelphia
Future-farming experts Metropolis Farms have opened the world's first solar powered, indoor vertical farm in the...
New Orleans golf course transformed into city’s biggest urban farm with an Eco-Campus
A former golf course in New Orleans' City Park has been transformed into the city's biggest urban farm—Grow Dat...
Rooftop farms in Gaza provide a lifeline to the community
Meeting even basic needs can be a challenge for the nearly 2 million people that live in Gaza. An Israeli blockade...
This amazing farm in a box can pop up on any city street
It's sometimes difficult to find fresh, local produce in urban environments. To solve this problem, Finnish enterprise...
Shanghai is planning a massive 100-hectare vertical farm to feed 24 million people
International architecture firm Sasaki just unveiled plans for a spectacular 100-hectare urban farm set amidst...
Sun Commune pavilion teaches urban kids about sustainable farming in China
For a country like China, where one-fifth of the farmland is contaminated, raising awareness about sustainable...
Inside the world’s first airport potato farm at JFK
[gallery_extend] JetBlue launched the T5 Farm in 2015 as an experiment in urban farming that pushes...
Kimbal Musk launches a revolutionary shipping container farm initiative in Brooklyn
[gallery_extend] Square Roots is an interactive campus of sorts, where each entrepreneur accepted to...
America’s first urban ‘agrihood’ feeds 2,000 households for free
When you think of Detroit, 'sustainable' and 'agriculture' may not be the first two words that you think of. But...
Urban farming, food markets and parks replace banks and parking lots in this masterplan for Amsterdam
[gallery_extend] The project offers a solution to some of the issues plaguing the city center which is...
Canadian nonprofit builds North America’s first urban earthship in Calgary
[gallery_extend] Since earthships make use of recycled and reclaimed building materials, they can be...
3D-printed Aquaponic Homes grow their own veggies and fish
[gallery_extend] One of the finalists of Inhabitat's recent Biodesign competition, Aquaponic Future...
9 questions with eco architect William McDonough on the future of agriculture
We’re excited about urban farming here at Inhabitat, and we’ve been following the work of green architect William...
