While many people think of rural landscapes as agricultural hubs, more and more people are realizing the benefits of growing food, flowers, and fiber in urban spaces. Urban cores and peri-urban spaces ...

NFSC PhD student Qingyue Zeng (left), first author of the paper, and undergraduate student Derek Konsen collecting soil cores in an amended plot at a local urban farm. Urban soils often contain ...

In urban settings, where soil fertility and water access can be limited, urine has gained quiet traction among permaculturists and eco-conscious gardeners. Once seen as taboo, human urine is quietly ...

Vertical farming is like growing plants in tall buildings or stacked layers, kind of like a skyscraper for veggies! Instead ...

On a busy corner in West Sacramento, surrounded by high-density housing and railroad tracks, sits a 1-half acre oasis of soil and green shoots. A group of young people tend to organized rows of ...

For youth volunteers at Glenway Farm in Dorchester, the protocol for weeding and harvesting garlic in extreme weather conditions is clear cut: get in and get out. There are few buildings or shaded ...

SPRINGFIELD — Workers at Gardening the Community brag they grow the best collard greens in the region. They raise 14 varieties of hot peppers and sell fresh okra. And their compost can’t be beat.

Basil and salad greens are growing at FarmWild’s urban, indoor aquaponic farm Sept. 16 in Bellingham. Bellingham is now home to its first urban indoor aquaponics farm, bringing a hyperlocal and ...

The Conservation Fund is working to revive and sustain Chicago metropolitan area farms through its Farms Fund program. This is the last in a series spotlighting its work with farmers in the south ...