Vertical Farming in British Columbia
Forwarding Dallas - Hill-Filled Design | Inhabitat
“Fowarding Dallas,” by Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, is a hillside-inspired design that consists of a series of peaks and valleys, runs completely on renewable energy, is covered in vegetation, and can even grow its own food. The coolest part? This mixed-use eco-community won’t just a concept – it will actually be constructed in Dallas in 2011”
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Urban Agriculture
City Farm, Chicago, Illinois
Urban Agriculture reconnects city residents with their food sources, shortens the distance food has to travel, reduces transportation costs and increases green space in urban areas. Many urban food projects are small-scale neighborhood programs that convert vacant lots into private gardens. City Farm operates on a larger scale; the sustainable, organic farm uses large, vacant properties to grow vegetables and make compost. The farm produces 20 varieties of tomatoes as well as other fruits and vegetables that are sold to local restaurants and the public. The Resource Center operates City Farm to create jobs. Center founder Ken Dunn notes, “We found that by planning and planting carefully, you can create a job for an individual on about 10,000 square feet, or about four lots.”
Smarter Cities: Vertical Farming Could Ease World’s Agricultural Woes | Inhabitat.com
pictured: Plantagon Vertical Farm
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Omega Hydroponic Garden Gets Five Times As Much Food Per Watt : TreeHugger
“We often wonder about the benefits of indoor hydroponic gardening, given that the sun is free. After all, Illegal hydroponic installations are often discovered by their abnormally high electricity use. Can Omega Garden system make high tech urban gardening economically feasible and actually more energy efficient than growing outdoors?
Vancouver based Omega Garden’s Carousel system rotates the plants around the bulb. They claim that it yields three to five times the weight of plant per watt of electricity used, compared to conventional flat systems. Their commercial carousel system produces as much as a 1500 square foot greenhouse in only 150 square feet, and their LED system just sips electricity.”
The Edible House | Landscape + Urbanism
This concept house of the future “… has a garden façade that includes chickpeas, tomatoes and other plants. The plants also provide shade and cooling. A rooftop reservoir collects water and keeps the building cool.”
Indeed, such a facade would require more maintenance and attention than what most houses have now, but as people are increasingly looking for clever ways to cut expenses in new and ‘green’ ways, we are hoping to see many examples of this put into practice in the future. Also, if the homeowner keeps a garden anyway, the synthesis of the garden into the home facade might actually result in less work than if they were separate.
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Philips Biotower Puts Farming in the Kitchen (With Style) - Gizmodo
The Philips BioTower is a self-contained farm that produces hundreds of calories of various food sources a day, cascading nutrients from the top to the bottom. Its five-level design breaks down like this:
Levels 1 and 2: Plants
Level 3: Algae
Level 4: Fish and Shrimp
Level 5: Organic Waste
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Philips Biotower Puts Farming in the Kitchen (With Style) - Gizmodo
The Philips BioTower is a self-contained farm that produces hundreds of calories of various food sources a day, cascading nutrients from the top to the bottom. Its five-level design breaks down like this:
- Levels 1 and 2: Plants
- Level 3: Algae
- Level 4: Fish and Shrimp
- Level 5: Organic Waste
[h/t crazyfishor]
Truck Farm by Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney
Growing a garden in the bed of a truck, in Brooklyn. Definitely an interesting idea.
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Omlet Beehaus - a Synthetic Beehive for the Urban Conservationist
Because as you already know, you can’t have healthy plant life without healthy insect populations to sustain it.
Urban Agriculture: A Guide to Container Gardens
With inexpensive containers and suitable soil mix, you can create an urban garden virtually anywhere - on roof tops, vacant city lots, brown fields, and unused portion of parking lots.
“This is a roof of a warehouse in Greenpoint, which is now covered with 200,000 pounds of soil, 1,000 earthworms, and an abundance of vegetables, herbs, and flowers.”
“Husband-and-wife green roof architects Chris and Lisa Goode starting planning this rooftop garden atop a warehouse in Greenpoint last December, enlisting the help of an aspiring urban farmer and a planting specialist from the New York Botanical Garden along the way. Corn, radishes, lettuce and peppers have all been planted, and the yield thus far is being snapped up by such locavore-friendly restaurants like Marlow & Sons and Anella.”
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Photo by Lucas Foglia
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“XERO Project, a proposal for an ‘X’ of greenways and zero-energy building design in downtown Dallas, earned one of three first-place prizes in the Re:Vision Dallas design competition on May 28, 2009.”
from City Farmer News
GreenMarket urban agriculture, UAE » City Farmer News
“The GreenMarket utilizes BrightFarm Systems pioneering rooftop and facade mounted, sustainable greenhouse designs, to integrate hydroponic food production into civic buildings. The layers of vegetation encased in the walls of the building provide shade for the building interior.”
