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www.npr.org - January 11, 5:00 PM

Urban Fish Farming: Wave Of The Future?

A Brooklyn researcher says raising fish in city warehouses could be a solution to depleted oceans, chemically raised farm fish and mislabeled seafood. Plus, think of the fertilizer! Would you grow your vegetables in a tank of tilapia?
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www.thisgivesmehope.com - Today, 12:42 AM

#310 Farming Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | This gives me hope

Vancouver’s gritty Downtown Eastside is not the place I would think to look for an urban farm. Yet that is where SOLEfood Farm is training inner-city res...

Via Cathryn Wellner
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www.foodandtechconnect.com - May 26, 3:48 PM

Infographic Create 189k Jobs & Increase Healthy Food Sales $9.5B | Food+Tech Connect

USDA dietary guidelines recommend that 50 percent of our daily food intake should be fruits and vegetables. But there is clearly a disconnect between the guidelines and the mere 2 percent of U.S.
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zeenews.india.com - May 26, 2:16 PM

ICRISAT-ICAR partner to build climate resilient agriculture | Zeenews.com

Hyderabad: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have called to adapt new measures to tackle growing climate related risks and constraints that prevail in rural areas.

Via CGIAR Climate
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www.cafothebook.org - May 26, 2:12 PM

CAFO - The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories

A highly illustrated definitive resource about one of the most important environmental and ethical issues of our time: factory farming.

Via pdjmoo
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www.cityfarmer.info - May 26, 2:09 PM

Webinar featuring Tim Blank, creator of the ... - City Farmer News

The whole family can get involved in growing your own nutrient-rich produce safely and sustainably. Listen to Tim discuss how he came to develop the Tower Garden, and to hear about his dream of making vertical farming a ...
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www.technology-digital.com (via @sleliaert) - May 26, 1:57 PM

5 inexpensive iPhone apps for food-lovers.

The apps offer discounts on food items with great features (RT @iphoneness: 5 inexpensive iPhone apps for food-lovers.)...
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www.treehugger.com - May 26, 1:53 PM

Exciting New Small Farms Bill Could Change the Face of Local Eats

Congresswoman from Maine introduces farm bill to support local, organic, and family farms...
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www.treehugger.com - May 26, 1:44 PM

Pop-Up Gardens, Other 'Urban Interventions' to be Showcased at Venice Architecture Biennale

Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.
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learningenglish.voanews.com (via @GeorgiaBoers) - May 26, 4:31 AM

The Appeal of Urban Farming

Farms in unlikely places are bringing more fresh produce to more Americans | AGRICULTURE REPORT (The Appeal of Urban Farming http://t.co/0Ij81hhK...)...
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www.mnn.com (via @lacultivatrice) - May 26, 4:26 AM

Indianapolis

Mother Nature Network (Urban farm in Indy!?
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jamaicaplaingazette.com - May 26, 4:13 AM

JP residents help urban gardens grow - Jamaica Plain Gazette

JP residents help urban gardens growJamaica Plain GazetteBy Rebeca Oliveira Urban agriculture is blooming in Boston, from backyard vegetable patches to community gardens to for-profit urban farms, and Jamaica Plain residents are involved in nearly...
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smartpei.typepad.com - May 26, 4:07 AM

Why I am Backing Inspired Farmers Urban Farming Project #localfood

I am backing the Inspired Farmers Project - they will start the first demo for Urban Farming in Charlottetown next week. The project is lead by Karen Murchison of the Queen St Commons and her partners at the Murphy ...
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heritage.com (via @dedouble) - May 26, 3:47 AM

YPSILANTI: Local business owner starts CityFARM to encourage urban farming - Ypsilanti Courier - Heritage Newspapers

Heritage Newspapers is your source for all southeast Michigan 24-hour breaking news, local news, sports, entertainment and more. View weather updates, watch videos and photos. Keep up with News and local Sports.
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Urban Farming! I’m doing it!

I couldn’t be happier that my garden is growing like crazy, so I’m going to boast like a proud parent and show off some pictures of the growing bounty. I’m sure there will be mor... (RT @pgmakegravy: Urban Farming!
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www.post-gazette.com - May 26, 3:23 PM

Recycled aquarium water benefits goldfish and seedlings


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www.gizmodo.com.au - May 26, 2:15 PM

This Spinning Indoor Garden Was Built Using NASA Technology

What was once intended to be a garden for outerspace could someday be a garden for your living room.

Via Kalani Kirk Hausman
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www.lowernineurbanfarming.org - May 26, 2:11 PM

Ohio State tours to showcase urban farming on parking lots | Urban ...

Urban Farming : Short on space but big on taste ... He pronounced he hopes to uncover visitors a significance of a good design. “But inlet does bat last, and we're perplexing to figure out how inlet adjusts to flourishing food on ...
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www.youtube.com (via @Moradog) - May 26, 2:00 PM

MAD (Modular Aquaponic Drums)

Aquaponics using a barrel, I converted the fish pond into an aquaponics system. I made a bell siphon for the flood and drain cycle.
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www.naptownchickens.org (via @NapTownChickens) - May 26, 1:56 PM

Nap Town Chickens

Welcome to Nap Town Chickens, an advocacy organization for urban chicken farming in Indianapolis. Our goal is to encourage and educate "city folks" on backyard chicken farming and the benefits and enjoyment that can come of it.
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www.treehugger.com - May 26, 1:51 PM

The Biggest Farm Bill Loser: Cartoon Explains a Corrupt Food System

Food and Water Watch video explains the winners and losers as a result of the US farm bill.
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www.shareable.net - May 26, 1:40 PM

Shareable: Barter-Based School Goes Global [INTERVIEW]

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civilworx.blogspot.fr - May 26, 4:30 AM

Prototype Urban Farm : " DRAGONFLY " - civilworx blog

Apart from housing and offices it will consist of laboratories in ecological engineering and most of all, there will be 28 agricultural fields ( farming spaces ) vertically laid out in 12 several floors cultivated by its own inhabitants.
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www.youtube.com (via @AmadorMelgoza) - May 26, 4:25 AM

Urban Agriculture in Detroit - MSU's Greening Michigan Institute: Dr. Rick Foster

Michigan State University has a Greening Michigan Institute, and it's headed by Dr. Rick Foster. We're talking about urban farming, urban agriculture (metrop...
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grist.org - May 26, 4:08 AM

New Agtivist: Meg Paska runs Brooklyn's first urban farm pop-up | Grist

It's a dreamy combination of hipster clichés: an urban farming-themed pop-up store made of salvaged materials. In Brooklyn. Maybe that's why, when Hayseed's Big City Farm Supply opened at the beginning of April, founder ...
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gothamschools.org - May 26, 3:59 AM

Experiments on Bronx school's green roof taking students far - GothamSchools

GothamSchoolsExperiments on Bronx school's green roof taking students farGothamSchoolsby Nick Pandolfo, Hechinger Report, at 9:53 am Bronx Design and Construction Academy ninth-graders Elton Hollingsworth (left) and Noel Cruz, both 14, stand atop...
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