Eric Maundu’s home-aquaponics can grow veggies & fish anywhere by Kirsten Dirksen on June 20, 2020 Eric Maundu wants to put fish farming in every kitchen, or more specifically, he has created a smart aquaponics system …
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. …
Experiments in small space gardening in Mexico City by Kirsten Dirksen on June 15, 2015 In the ruins of an old storage building, young urban farmers in Mexico City’s Roma District are experimenting with how …
Aquaponics home-farm kit could grow food anywhere by Kirsten Dirksen on February 9, 2015 Paul Holowko is an electrical and computer engineer who has turned his technical skills on his garden. About a decade …
Backyard aquaponics as self-sustained farm in (sub)urban LA by Kirsten Dirksen on February 24, 2014 Scott Henley wanted to prove he could turn the backyard of his modest Pasadena (Los Angeles) home into a working …
Shop-in-a-box: container workshop deploys hardware anywhere by Kirsten Dirksen on September 16, 2013 Luke Iseman is a creator: he’s invented automated gardening assistants, built a bike taxi company and designed kilns for Kenyan …
Internet of Farming: Arduino-based, backyard aquaponics by Kirsten Dirksen on June 30, 2013 Rik Kretzinger grew up on a Christmas tree farm and spent his college years studying horticulture, but he found it …
Tiny wattle/daub shed from local dirt in San Francisco by Kirsten Dirksen on October 30, 2012 The tiny wattle-and-daub hut on Ellis Street is likely the only earth-built shelter in downtown San Francisco. Even more impressive, …
Urban forest erupts in San Francisco’s Tenderloin by Kirsten Dirksen on October 28, 2012 The “Tenderloin National Forest” is likely one of the world’s smallest “forests”; it’s just 23 feet wide by 136 feet …
Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland by Kirsten Dirksen on June 25, 2012 The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and …
