Vertical Harvest in Jackson is North America’s first vertical hydroponic farm. Because of its success, it is opening a 51,000-square-foot vertical farming facility in Maine and will break ground on another in Detroit.

Carrot City is a research initiative that explores how design can enable the production of food in cities. You will find a comprehensive repository of the Carrot City initiative and is intended as a research tool for anyone who is interested in the links between design and food in today's cities.

In addition to not feeding the masses, vertical farming could have grave environmental and economic consequences

Nature Cities - Urban agriculture is intuitively appealing, but its carbon footprint is unclear. This analysis of case studies in the United States and northern Europe finds that food from urban...

Europe’s energy crisis is forcing companies to switch strategies or close down. The industry’s future hangs in the balance.

If the electricity for a vertical farm is supplied by solar panels, the energy production takes up at least as much space as the vertical farm saves.

Plants and architecture: two seemingly opposite elements. How can we combine them to plan future cities that are closer to nature? What synergies can we explore? HORTITECTURE seeks to discover the creative and construction potentials of vital plant material, and explores its applications in ecosystem services and urban food production. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2P6EPhg

With an increasing interest in quality of nutrition and health, urban food production has begun to occur inside the growing cities worldwide and risks to compete with other urban needs. The book introduces typologies, tools, evaluation methods and strategies, and shows the practical applications of the methods. Multiple projects illustrate solutions that augment quality via the insertion of food production entities into the urban realm.

Carrot City is a research initiative that explores how design can enable the production of food in cities. You will find a comprehensive repository of the Carrot City initiative and is intended as a research tool for anyone who is interested in the links between design and food in today's cities.

The Soil Will Save Us book. Read 147 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices - ...

Lux is an important light meausrement but how beneficial is it for plants? Here's what you should know about lux for plants!

Vertical farms grow more food but use much more energy, so let's consider other kinds of urban agriculture.

ECF Aquaponics Farm Systems | Producing cost-efficient and resource-friendly food of the highest quality.

Sprouting up in what used to be horizontal farmland, this is wrong on so many levels.

The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world. It is a much-needed reality check that explains why certain trends we take for granted are historical anomalies.

A map of the best contemporary landscape architecture projects from around the world.

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I sometimes find myself making negative comments about vertical farming. This happened again today, and the facebook friend to whom I responded replied very ope

In addition to not feeding the masses, vertical farming could have grave environmental and economic consequences

If we were to divide the total global surface area of arable land by the number of people living on the planet, each person would get 2000m².

Stan Cox has another run at the vertical farm

As the urban agriculture movement has become more mainstream in recent years, so has the amount of content and ideas about it as well…

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Roca London Gallery’s latest exhibition explores real-life projects and products helping city buildings grow food and reuse waste

UrbanFood.org is the research website of Nathan McClintock, PhD, Associate Professor of Urban Studies & Planning at Portland State University.

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