Urban Gardening.
BIG IDEA: What is it? Future Growing LLC. Examples of Container Gardening, Raised Bed Garden, Vertical Tower Garden at the Great Park. Brand New Windowfarms- Vertical Food Gardens by The Windowfarms Project. Beehive Tower is a Honeycomb Inspired Vertical Farm for London. The aim of the Beehive Tower is to provide the Canary Wharf community of city dwellers a place to garden and live.
The tower’s hexagonal mega structural lattice contains greenhouse spaces that also serve as a place for people to meet and socialize. Each hexagon is 8 stories high and contains 8 duplex apartments. A number of the hex cavities are dedicated to gardening and face in different directions so that each element gets a fair share of sun. Atop the tower, fourteen Quiet Revolution QR12 turbines collect enough wind to generate 420,000kWh a year. In addition, rainwater collection and permaculture systems would make the watering needs of the tower sustainable.
Via CTBUH Images © CTBUH. Gardening Tips ‘n Ideas. A DIY Vertical Garden Example Ever since coming across Patrick Blanc’s vertical garden I’ve been interested to observe how this technology might transform the home gardening scene.
I mean, it’s only a matter of time before we begin running out room for gardens to grow on a horizontal plane. Yet vertical – that’s another dimension altogether. For most home gardeners the concept isn’t a new one. We’ve been staking tomato plants, espaliering fruit trees and training creepers to grow over undesirable fences for aeons. The reason: Whereas all our other vertical gardening exploits centred around plants being grounded in the soil, the vertical garden has absolutely no dependency on the ground. But for most home gardeners, Patrick Blanc and his artworks are far beyond the comprehension and resources available to them. However, as we have already experienced with increasing gas prices our conservative views of the world may need to change.
Facebook. VERTICAL VEGETABLES: "Grow up" in a small garden and confound the cats! Bottle Garden Part2. Gutter Gardens Grow Produce Without Taking Up Space. A Vertical Garden Feeds 10,000+ Visitors to Chicago O'Hare Airport. Growing Your Greens/Video screen capture John of Growing Your Greens has been busy in Chicago.
No sooner does he post a video of an old meat packing plant morphing into a gigantic vertical farm and food processing facility, than we also get a visit to an urban garden that is bang in the middle of Chicago O'Hare airport. Using an aeroponic Tower Garden growing system, the garden is growing lettuce, greens and herbs for airport restaurants with an almost zero transportation footprint. There is always a significant energy footprint involved with growing food indoors. As John notes, the lighting alone is likely to be sucking up a considerable amount of energy. The educational and entertainment aspect of this project alone make it worthwhile in my book. But this is definitely a step in the right direction. Vertical Gardening. The Rise of Urban Farming and Other Varieties of Sustainable Ag. My newest buzzword for 2011 is CSA.
I'd never heard the term until recently, but now it seems to be popping up all over, as is interest in sustainable agriculture and urban farming. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture -- the practice of signing up with a local farm for weekly produce and, in some cases, meat and dairy. I first read about CSA in Kristin Kimball's recent memoir, "The Dirty Life," which is justly attracting rave reviews on Amazon. A Manhattan writer who gave up the city for love, she has been farming an organic spread, Essex Farm, in upstate New York since 2003, with her husband, Mark. Essex Farm provides a complete sustainable diet for its 150 members.
Kimball's book is an engrossing depiction of the back-breaking work and edible rewards of CSA. Urban farming is also on the rise. Urban farming comes in a variety of models. A vision of urban and vertical farming.