Detroit indoor farming could boost local food, jobs & community by Kirsten Dirksen on March 22, 2020 In 2015 Jeff Adams bought an abandoned warehouse in his Detroit neighborhood and installed hydroponic racks 5-levels high to grow …
Ski town turns car park into vertical farm for local jobs/food by Kirsten Dirksen on November 11, 2018 For most of the year the soil in Jackson, Wyoming is iced over and the town’s produce is trucked in. …
Using containers to stack high yield farms for urban produce by Kirsten Dirksen on October 22, 2017 As a business school student Maarten Vandecruys became fascinated by robotized plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs). Just a few …
More than work: Tokyo office grows own food in vertical farm by Kirsten Dirksen on January 24, 2016 In a country with very little arable land (only 12% compared with 20% in the US), in one of the …
Farm-to-table organic produce growing in dense Hong Kong by Kirsten Dirksen on March 23, 2015 Hong Kong is one of the densest cities in the world (in some parts there are 400,000 people living in …
LA ecovillage: self-reliance in car-free urban homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on June 16, 2014 In urban Los Angeles, about 3 miles west of downtown, 500 people live on 11 acres priority is given to …
Biointensive mini-farming: grow more food in less space by Kirsten Dirksen on November 13, 2012 With just one-tenth of an acre of space, it’s possible to grow your entire diet, claims a Northern California gardening …
Urban goats for organic raw milk in a San Francisco backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on December 5, 2011 Heidi Kooy lives in a fairly dense part of San Francisco- her row house touches her neighbors’- with just 1000 …
Rooftop hydroponics on NYC: serving produce from upstairs by Kirsten Dirksen on June 20, 2011 Chef John Mooney believes so strongly in local food that for his latest restaurant in Manhattan’s West Village, most of his …
Refarm the city: open source tools for urban farmers by Kirsten Dirksen on May 24, 2011 We’re becoming an urban planet – more than half of us live in cities – so if we want local food, …
