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Goats to trim the grass
A major international airport like Chicago’s O’Hare needs a large staff to take care of everything from security to maintenance, and now the major aviation hub is looking to hire some four-legged...
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Fresh Food for All
Local farmers could revolutionize how millions of New Yorkers eat. Never have so many individuals, nonprofits, and local politicians been so intent on connecting the bounty of small and medium-size...
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Mexico City’s rooftop gardens
In a program begun five years ago, Mexico City’s municipal government has given grants to 3,080 families to build gardens on their rooftops, sometimes sheltered by simple greenhouses to protect from...
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The Iskashitaa Harvesting Project
When Barbara Eiswerth came back from Africa, all she saw was waste. Walking the streets of Tucson, she found sidewalks littered with oranges, figs and pomegranates—the unharvested yield of people’s...
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Up on the Farm
Everyone knows that New York is full of foodies, but few realize that it is also full of farmers. City farmsteads are cropping up all over, and New York has more of them—and more on rooftops—than...
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Shanghai Organic Farm Made From 78 Recycled Shipping Containers
Tony’s Farm is more than just an agricultural operation; it is also a major tourist attraction. Chinese organic farming pioneer Tony Zhang created the farm in 2004, taking a plot of chemically damaged...
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Growing up, growing food: A teenage farmer to watch
Think you don’t regret all those high school afternoons wasted at the mall or the skate park? Just wait till you meet Sophia Vartanian, a Vancouver, B.C.-based urban farmer. At 16 years old, her...
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Time Circus Builds a Floating Vegetable Garden on an Abandoned Ship Crane in...
Antwerp’s MAS Museum lent the people at Time Circus an old unused crane on which the collective built their cool green space. Anchored at Bonapartedok, the experimental space is designed to engage...
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