URBAN GARDENS
| Mission: | To green our cities with Urban Gardens and to collaborate and give support to urban garden growers! |
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| Founder: |
 Nicole sorochan,
Victoria |
| Description: | "Urban landscapes are often viewed as barren and cold scenes of concrete, asphalt and glass. They are portrayed as the opposite of the rural pastoral setting, rich in vegetation and greenery. However, in the biggest city, in the tiniest apartment, there exists the possibility to reconnect with the natural world through gardening. Your urban home or apartment does not have to exist as a lifeless box of concrete. Nor do you have to give up the advantages of a big-city metropolitan lifestyle to take pleasure in the joys of gardening. Whether you plant herbs in a window box, maintain a large flower garden in your backyard, or grow veggies in a local community garden, you can garden in the big city. Additionally, the simple act of planting a small flower garden, a tree, or vegetables helps the environment and instills more pride in your community. Even if you aren’t an avid gardener, you can still get involved in local gardening and urban agricultural projects such as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Urban gardening and urban agriculture are ideas that are becoming increasingly important as our world becomes more urbanized and developers transform agriculturally fertile lands and open spaces into sprawling suburbs. This site is dedicated to those environmentally-conscious urban dwellers who want to create a green corner devoted to nature in their own home, or who want to support community-based gardening or agriculture projects in their neighborhood. " (Source: http://www.urbangardeninghelp.com/) |
| Details: | Benefits of community /urban gardens: * Gardens help people to reclaim their neighborhoods turning filth into beauty * Vegetable gardens produce fresh, organic and delicious food * Gardens provide daily recreation and social interaction for retirees * Gardening gives kid and young people a productive, educational and confidence-building activity * Community gardens reflect the cultural identity of the people who create them |
| Tags: | urban city gardening community garden greening |
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Videos
Belgian Farmers Oppose Genetically Modified Potatoes
March 9 (Bloomber) -- Bloomberg's Chris Burns reports on the backlash against the European Commission's decision to approve BASF SE's genetically modified Amflora potato. The Amflora potato can now......
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March 9 (Bloomber) -- Bloomberg's Chris Burns reports on the backlash against the European Commission's decision to approve BASF SE's genetically modified Amflora potato. The Amflora potato can now......
Connected to: Organic Farming URBAN GARDENS
Organic Gardening Science: How to Brew Compost Tea
Compost tea is a solution that improves the health of soil, which in turn improves the health of the plants that grow in that soil. Scott LaFleur, of the New England Wild Flower Society, shows Dave......
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Compost tea is a solution that improves the health of soil, which in turn improves the health of the plants that grow in that soil. Scott LaFleur, of the New England Wild Flower Society, shows Dave......
Connected to: Organic Farming Green Gardening URBAN GARDENS
The Codex Alimentarius threat and the big pharmaceutical industry
Monsanto and Big Pharma KILLING natural farming & KILLING US...
Connected to: Organic Farming Water Impacts URBAN GARDENS
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Earth Focus: Technology and the Environment
More at http://www.linktv.org/earthfocus. In this episode of Earth Focus, see how Google Earth helps Brazil's Surui people preserve their culture and protect the Amazon rainforest. Chinese......
Connected to: Organic Farming Emperilled Ecosystems Green Innovation Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement URBAN GARDENS Endangered Species
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Backwards Beekeepers TV: How To Make Starter Strips
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Backwards Beekeeper Kirk Anderson (aka Kirkobeeo) shows how to make starter strips and put them in your hive frames. Starter strips are the Backwards Beekeepers' alternative to the wax foundation......
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How to Make a Worm Compost
This video was for my cousin's science project which he asked me to film and edit. He's such a funny little kid. :) So if you've ever wondered how to make a worm compost, after watching this, you'll......
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This video was for my cousin's science project which he asked me to film and edit. He's such a funny little kid. :) So if you've ever wondered how to make a worm compost, after watching this, you'll......
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Chef Annie Somerville on cooking organic beets
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Chef Annie Somerville in the Green Restaurant's kitchen with Sierra Club's Orli Cotel cooking up some tasty organic beets. ...
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Guerilla Gardening Seed Bombs on Market Kitchen
Richard Reynolds talks about guerrilla gardening and makes some seed bombs on Good Food's Market Kitchen TV show ...
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Richard Reynolds talks about guerrilla gardening and makes some seed bombs on Good Food's Market Kitchen TV show ...
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A Small Victory Against Monsanto & GMOs!
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Factory Farming: Antibiotics and Food Supply
More than 80 years after the discovery of penicillin, Katie Couric previews an upcoming CBS News investigation on antibiotics in factory farming and the effect on future resistance in humans. ...
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More than 80 years after the discovery of penicillin, Katie Couric previews an upcoming CBS News investigation on antibiotics in factory farming and the effect on future resistance in humans. ...
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