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SCAD students fight food insecurity in Georgia with organic farming and beekeeping

For a break from schoolwork, students at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) have been swapping their...

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This apartment building in Staten Island has a 5,000-square-foot urban farm

Along the waterfront on New York’s north shore, Staten Island Urby sits overlooking the Statue of Liberty and...

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MVRDV-designed market in Taiwan will grow food on a massive green roof

Hot on the heels of its bold “Times Square” proposal for Taiwan’s capital, MVRDV has broken ground on another...

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Peek inside the BIG-designed garden village for one of the world’s best restaurants

After over three years of planning, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed the new home for Noma, an award-winning,...

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An urban farm and restaurant flourishes in Utrecht’s “circular” pavilion

A new restaurant celebrating sustainability has opened in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Designed by Dutch architecture...

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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...

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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...

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America’s largest urban farm to be planted in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, once a site of heavy industry, could soon be home to the biggest urban farm in the United States. The...

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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...

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Inspiring urban farm teaches kids how to grow their own organic food

A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but an amazing urban farm flourishes on Governors Island. An inspiring GrowNYC initiative...

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SPACE10 creates an open-source Growroom you can build at home

SPACE10, a future-living lab and exhibition space in Copenhagen, wants to change the modern food industry. In September,...

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Incredible rooftop farm takes over Israel’s oldest mall to grow thousands of organic vegetables

An amazing farm has sprouted in an unlikely place—the rooftop of Israel’s oldest mall in the heart of Tel Aviv....

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Massive rooftop farm in Tel Aviv grows 10,000 heads of lettuce every month

On top of a shopping mall in Israel, a sprawling rooftop farm produces fresh vegetables and greens for thousands...

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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...

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Canadian nonprofit builds North America’s first urban earthship in Calgary

Since earthships make use of recycled and reclaimed building materials, they can be constructed at a very low cost....

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Science Barge floating farm gets decked out in new solar electric system

The Science Barge is a fully functioning off-grid urban farm and environmental education center on the Hudson...

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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...

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Futuristic Japanese indoor vertical farm produces 12,000 heads of lettuce a day with LED lighting

Philips Lighting has launched the latest in its indoor vertical farming experiments, with trials at two Japanese...

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Trendy Urby waterfront community is the first in NY with its own farm, bodega and urban beehive

The first thing you're probably wondering about Urby is what the commute is like. Our tour began at the Staten...

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Top 10 cities in the U.S. for urban farming

Image via Flickr 1. Austin, Texas With a YWCA community garden dating back to 1975 and a Sustainable Food...

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Seattle embraces urban farming at ten acre Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands

What was once a tree nursery is now home to Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands (RBUFW), Seattle’s largest...

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Detroit’s largest urban farm to grow 60 acres of fresh produce

Urban farming is big in Detroit, and it’s about to get even bigger. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced the addition...

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Flatpack hydroponic garden delivers 538-square-feet of fresh food to cities

Urban farming is challenging. Limited space is one of the biggest barriers to growing fresh food as a city dweller...

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Temporary Urban Farm pops up at Oslo’s Øya music festival

Multidisciplinary design studio Growlab Oslo created a four-day urban farm for Oslo’s Øya music festival, an...

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Tokyo subways sprout underground farms

Under the streets of Tokyo, there is a hidden secret that most people would never imagine - and it’s delicious....

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OpenFarm’s community-created guides help you learn to grow anything

Backyard gardens and home-scale farms are popping up all over the world as people re-develop an interest in cultivating...

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World’s largest indoor vertical farm will produce 2 million pounds of soil-free food in Newark

The multimillion-dollar deal was developed by AeroFarms in partnership with property management firm RBH Group,...

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Help the Food is Free Project transform your community

Have you heard about the Food is Free Project yet? If not, it's worth looking into! It began in 2012 as a way for...

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Japanese man invents 3D-printed gardens that can grow in any shape

The list of things that can be 3D printed keeps growing and growing, and Yuichiro Takeuchi recently added gardens...

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NYC’s Design Trust for Public Space Launches Urban Agriculture Data Collection Portal

Some people still criticize the urban agriculture movement as a cute idea with little potential to feed urban populations,...

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