Right now, where you live, in your neighborhood and around your home, you can make a difference, by adapting your lifestyle one step at a time, to become more sustainable. Get the neighborhood involved if you can, inspire a sense of community, as you turn every patch of earth around your hood into an edible […]
Many people wonder what organic gardening is. The answer is that organic gardeners do not use chemical based/synthetic fertilizers or pesticides on their plants. Gardening organically is much more than what you don’t do. When you garden organically, you think of your plants as part of a whole system within the environment that starts in […]
Building an ecosystem doesn’t have to take a lot of money, but it does take time. Use what you have or is available in your area. (Most people complain that it costs money to have plants, propagate your own. When fancy plants die due to the wrong growing conditions, one could become discouraged to continue […]
Who said you can’t be a farmer in the middle of the city? More and more people are trying their hand at growing various edibles on balcony gardens, rooftop gardens, sidewalk gardens and vertical gardens in, above and around the bricks and pipes and fences of our city-scapes. Urban Farming, a way for city dwellers […]
The purpose of Urban Agriculture: • Urban Food Security – ensures that good quality fresh food is freely available to city dwellers at a fair price by producing it as near to the points-of-sale as possible. • Reduces the carbon footprint by eliminating the logistics of supplying fresh produce markets from sources lying great distances […]