“Tree-like” vertical farms for Brooklyn?
https://www.framlab.com/glasir
https://www.core77.com/posts/94000/Could-These-Tree-Like-Vertical-Farms-Be-the-Future-of-Urban-Farming
Underground parking lot to organic mushroom farm in Paris (the ONLY organic farm in the city – so far)
https://medium.com/fab-city-grand-paris/our-maker-farmers-visit-the-mushroom-urban-farm-in-paris-c653e87c026e
https://lacaverne.co/en/cavern-urban-farm/
How urban trees and hedges help cut air pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/18/plantwatch-how-urban-trees-and-hedges-help-cut-air-pollution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231018308938
Can local food feed an urban world?
https://anthropocenemagazine.org/2016/10/can-local-food-feed-an-urban-world/
Green Concept House – a zero-waste, 100% self-sustaining home, including growing food
https://www.archdaily.com/934277/green-house-yang-design
https://inhabitat.com/a-zero-waste-self-sustaining-home-of-the-future/
Safezone Shelter – air pollution protection using plants in a shelter in Bangkok
https://inhabitat.com/futuristic-safezone-shelter-battles-air-pollution-in-thailand-with-a-green-oasis/
Vertical Oasis – concept for a green solar-powered skyscraper
https://faab.pl/en/vertical-oasis/
https://inhabitat.com/architects-envision-a-green-solar-powered-skyscraper/
12 “agrihoods”
https://charterforcompassion.org/shareable-community-ideas/12-agrihoods-taking-farm-to-table-living-mainstream
Link City – proposed self-sustainable city-forest, using an urban operating system with an AI (Artificial Intelligence)
https://www.lucacurci.com/portfolio/the-link-city.html
https://inhabitat.com/luca-curci-architects-designs-a-zero-energy-smart-city-of-the-future/
City farms underground
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-massive-farms-emerging-beneath-our-cities.html
Green wall made from clay tiles also provides natural cooling
https://inhabitat.com/this-green-wall-uses-upcycled-clay-tiles-for-natural-cooling/
Which trees reduce air pollution best
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200504-which-trees-reduce-air-pollution-best
I’m growing my first garden and I couldn’t be more thrilled!
I’ve planted vegetables: tomatoes, cabbage, zucchini, squash, cucumber, garlic, chives, basil, beans ; and fruits: strawberries, watermelon and cantaloupe.
And flowers: lily of the valley, miniature sunflowers, purple and white lilac, azalea, tulips, tiger lily, hollyhock, wildflower perennial mixture, and milkweed for the butterflies.
Most are watered with an underground drip sprinkler system and songbirds serenade me all day long as they bathe in their water bath.
My daily visitors include squirrels, chipmunks and little bunnies who will soon be feasting on all of the above, I’m sure. 🙂
In the fall, I hope to plant miniature fruit trees : plum, apple and pear and maybe a fig cutting from my botanical guru, Mike Festa!
Good luck with your new garden! The hopes and optimism of a newly-planted garden are one of the few ways we can rejuvenate ourselves in these challenging times.
My wife and I just got ours in last weekend. It seems that planting tomatoes on Memorial Day Weekend is just as much a requirement for New Englanders as moving on July 1 and September 1. Our annual staples are tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, string beans, spinach, lettuce, swiss chard, and cayenne peppers. We planted spices (sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, marjoram, parsley) years ago and they now reseed themselves every year. We also inherited a garlic patch that comes back year after year on a totally volunteer basis, as well as a kale patch.
We’ve used chicken-wire to enclose our garden so that the those cute little bunnies don’t get ALL the goodies. 🙂 We’ve also discovered that we have to drape bird-netting over our bean-frames so that our Kentucky Wonder pole beans have a chance to get their leaves before the local sparrows take them all for their delicious salad course.
My wife and I join you in hoping for a good harvest this year. August gets pretty hectic around here when we have to manage all of the above — especially when the peaches come in (a week or two or hectic harvesting, processing, and of course eating).
May your beans grow tall and plentiful and your tomatoes ripe and red!
Thank you Tom and the same good wishes to you and your wife on your delightful garden.
P.S. And thanks for the tips to fend off at least some of our sweet angel friends. 🙂