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The five-story Vertical Farm will expand Growing Powers greenhouse and aquaponics operations currently spread over a two-acre site in the City of Milwaukee.

The Good Food Revolution Goes Vertical

March 6, 2013by Sven 17 Comments

This is a story about something that is right in this world. It’s a story of inspiration and real world solutions, a down to earth celebration of the most basic […]

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cities, community, soil

We’re planning the future here!

April 24, 2012by Sven 2 Comments

File this in the category of occupying-the-land-with-things-that-were-meant-to-be-on-it-in-the-first-place. As some of you may have heard, a couple of days ago a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists took […]

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justice, soil

Movement in the Bottoms: Operation Canned Spinach!

January 31, 2011by Sven 8 Comments

Starting a grassroots urban farm with little means on a small plot of industrial wasteland with soil so toxic you can’t put any seeds in the ground is no small […]

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cities, justice, photo essay, soil
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Pigs in Oakland…?

June 29, 2009by Sven 2 Comments

Farm City – The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter Penguin Press . There are people — in fact, the vast majority of Homo sapiens — who see […]

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reviews, soil

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