Growing Underground: The farm six feet under
33 meters below ground level, Richard Ballard is growing his vegetables by hydroponic and vertical cultivation, supplied with renewable energy. A taste of the future.
# Agriculture urbaine
How to make a wormery in the midst of concrete buildings
A collective of English gardener-artists set up a cooperative at Somerset House and are growing vegetables between concrete and tarmac. In order to counter this hostile environment, nothing beats good compost.
Our maker-farmers visit the mushroom urban farm in Paris
Théo Champagnat et Jean-Noël Gertz grow mushrooms in a disused underground car park. We sent our future maker-farmers on the first official visit of the only organic farm in Paris.
“Learning aquaponics is easier than it looks”
At Green Lab in London, we attended a workshop to create an aquaponic system. In order to be an aquaponist, you need to know a bit of everything: chemistry, design, plumbing, maths...
In London, the first Green Lab shoots
In London, the Green Lab has been exploring agritech and urban agriculture for six months. We took part in an aquaponics workshop to meet them.
Aquapioneers, the aquaponics kit to cut out in a fablab
Conceived at the Green Fab Lab in Barcelona and currently in crowdfunding, Aquapioneers is an aquaponics kit for all pioneers of agriculture above ground.
Urban acupuncture and maker resilience in Taipei
Taiwan is renovating its military-industrial heritage. The ex-military base of Treasure Hill was turned into an artistic village where the OpenLab Taipei is blossoming.
Ikea goes on the open source offensive
Space10, supported by Ikea, released files under an open licence of the Growroom, a DIY urban garden kit. A new strategy for the Swedish company?
4 million euros to grow organic strawberries in town
Agricool recycles containers into organic strawberry tanks in town. And it works: the start-up has just raised €4 million.
Why a Paris suburb is replacing an urban farm with a parking lot
The city of Colombes, near Paris, is tearing down the local farm R-Urban… in order to make way for a parking lot. Report at Agrocité.
With AKER, fabricate your urban farm
AKER proposes open source kits for urban agriculture and hopes to contribute to the growth of Open farming movement.