Category: Urban Farming

Farmbots to the farms! »

By on Nov 15, 2011 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology, Urban Farming | 0 Comments

Robots for TechTuesday! Bots in the farms is pretty interesting in itself coz, well, they’re robots. Apparently commercial farmers are enamored with robots because they help address the farmers’ perennial problem of labor costs and labor availability. But you have to wonder though the sense of this as world population continues to increase which means [...]

Organic veggie farming in shipping containers »

By on Aug 19, 2011 in Food Security, Hunger and Poverty, Sustainable Agriculture, Technology, Urban Farming | 1 Comment

Here’s a new twist on urban farming -hydroponics basically. An article in FastCo describes a rising business venture that grows organic vegetables in shipping containers using hydroponic farming technology. Awesome!!! Liotta decided to use recycled shipping containers as “grow pods,” which are outfitted with organic hydroponic nutrient solutions; computer-controlled environmental systems to regulate temperature, humidity, [...]

Philippine City offers tax breaks for green roofs »

By on Sep 20, 2009 in News Clippings, Urban Farming | 0 Comments

EcoSunday shares this news bit from BusinessWorld about a new law enacted by the city council of Quezon City, Phlippines “requiring private and government-owned buildings to reserve part of their rooftops for “greening.” New commercial/residential buildings, under the Green Roof Ordinance (Ordinance 1940) signed into law by Mayor Feliciano R. Belmonte, Jr. last September 10, [...]

Chickens in the city »

By on Sep 18, 2009 in Farm Technology, Sustainable Agriculture, Urban Farming | 0 Comments

Well,  hens actually. Roosters are not welcome because of their crowing and they don’t lay eggs and don’t have good meat hehe. Farmfriday brings this interesting article from MSNBC about raising chickens in the city. While this may seem novel in modern western cities, this may not be so in most asian cities. Still its an [...]

Farms on the rooftops »

By on Sep 11, 2009 in Farm Technology, Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, Urban Farming | 0 Comments

Here’s an interesting bit we stumbled upon on MSNBC about urban farming in New York City, USA. As the worldwide trend towards urbanization continues to roll on, the prospects of urban farming becomes more and more evident, if not, a practical necessity.  I like this quote from the rooftop farmer “Food comes from not only [...]