Are high-tech industrial vertical gardening visions viable? What is the energy equation and how does it square with lower tech (and less costly) options for transition to a more sustainable world?
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Seeds that heal
How restorative justice in urban farming can set people on new paths of pride, responsibility, and prosperity.
Milking it
The return of urban dairies offers myriad opportunities for high quality locally sourced milk products, as well as more urban farming jobs.
Stoking the fire
Urban Agriculture needs clear local markets for its goods beyond grocery stores and farm stands. One of the most robust of those markets is farm-to-fork restaurants and their clientele.
Greenhorns to the rescue!
Allegheny Mountain Institute Fellows and other greenhorn teachers bring farming into areas to grow food and community.
Grow up!
Linoleum block print by Lindsay Curren depicting Mark Risdill Smith’s vertical garden.
