Window Farms

Hopefully, in the not so distant future, when I finally attain my dream, downtown loft condo, this is the the first thing I am going to invest in!

Window Farms for the urban dweller - grow your own food, eat healthy and rely less on the industrial food system. "Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials."

Create some edible window art in your own apartment! Check out some images and a video of an experiment in urban agriculture.

To Feed a City

As more people around the globe are moving into cities each year, the Western diet is becoming more readily apparent - a diet that is not necessarily healthy nor sustainable.

How we produce our food and feed our cities is an escalating problem. Agriculture and cities are bound together and are dependent on eachother. The modern food system has distanced us from nature. Rather than importing food from far-off, massive monoculture fields we need to produce more food within the cities we reside.

For more information, listen to Carolyn Steel talk about "How food shapes our cities" on TED Talks.

"It's All About the Soil..."

...as agriculturalist Will Allen continually repeated throughout his urban agriculture lecture in Madison on 17 September. He convinced the overcrowded room of people that you simply do not need a green thumb, or a rural farm for that matter, to grow local, fresh, organic, delicious food. Rather, all you need is good soil, community engagement and a little direction.

He has been building sustainable food systems in urban environments for over 20 years and has initiated projects all over the world through his non-profit Growing Power Inc based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

For the first time in history, more than half of the world's population resides in cities, yet very little food is actually produced in cities to support this population. Will Allen educates people on the importance of urban agriculture and local food supplies.