Category: agriculture
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Sky Vegetables
Have you noticed sometimes how you have to spend a good amount of time squeezing the smallest bits of information out of some sites…? I’m not sure how this is. One example of this is the site for Sky Vegetables, and the companion blog site which seems nigh impossible to extract even the slightest bit…
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Digging in with SO-IL
This one caught my attention today by combining the love of urban agriculture and rooftop gardening in one visually stimulating package. Spotted via Dezeen: “Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have designed a rooftop landscape of allotments to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York City.” :: images…
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Sky Farm Replay
It’s interesting to see how trends seem to hone in on one person that becomes the locus of most of the attention around a subject. Patrick Blanc and vertical gardens, Fritz Haeg with the ‘revolutionary’ idea of tearing up the lawn and planting vegetables, Michale Pollan and well, everything related to food – and now…
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‘Agriculture’
This old(er) post from Tropolism offers some great maps of the US in relation to agricultural production. Linked from radical cartography (a great site!), this work by Bill Rankin: “Where does our food come from? (And where should we expect to find the “meat lobby”?) But notice the marked discontinuity in soybean production between the…
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Stupid Plant Tricks
This site features a lot of great, inventive ways to use landscape materials in urban areas. On the flip side, there are a lot of very, very strange ways to use plants as well. Read on for a summary of some of the more ‘odd’ varieties of plant manipulations I’ve gleaned. Grass ‘photographs’ at Wimbledon,…
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Urban Ag: The Pulse
It’s been a while since I’ve done a significant post on urban agriculture. This is somewhat purposeful – for one everywhere you look the topic has caught fire. A quick summary shows recent articles in the LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, American City, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe & Mail, Granville, Dwell, Slate…
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PS1 Public Farm Grows
It’s been a well covered and wonderful example of some ephemeral architecture installation with an urban ag twist – the Public Farm at PS1 is now up and running – and it’s an interesting transformation from idea to reality. Seen on Treehugger, the project now has it’s own website at Public Farm 1, showing construction…
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Urbanarbolismo
It’s a mouthful, and en espanol – so it’s taken a bit of time to parse the goals and specifics – but was pleasantly surprised by what was found. Apologies for the bad translations via Google – with a bit of editing on my part for clarity (oh how I wish my spanish were better)…
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North Dakota Topography
Having grown up in the flat-ness of North Dakota, and spending 20 winters or so there through the height of the Cold War, I just had to share the recent post from Pruned that outlined an amazing landscape-art/homeland security from an anti-ballistic missile complex. The project stems from an installation for the Safeguard Program –…
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Local Aquaculture
The decentralization of agriculture offers a range of potential options for food production, but usually we think of this. City Farmer featured a home-scaled aquaculture as a means to produce high amounts of food, in this case 2000 lbs in a year (38 lbs per week). :: image via City Farmer Tilapia is a common…