BELTSVILLE, Md. — The University of the District of Columbia is aiming to tackle a number of urban environmental and health challenges through agriculture education targeting for small city spaces.

a plant biologist and head of the Urban Farming Group at Harper Adams University in the UK. "There's no organic matter, there's nothing else for the plant to compete with or to extract the water ...

Farmhouse at Roger’s Gardens Chef Rich Mead joined eight other chefs in creating an outdoor feast from locally ... $300,000 to help Solutions for Urban Agriculture’s efforts to fight food ...

During the apprenticeship, she enrolled in Purdue University Extension’s 6-month urban agriculture course that taught participants how to start a farm. While taking the course, Guerin began ...

A new study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than conventionally grown produce. A new University of ...

Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture as Green Infrastructure (UP-AGrI) project, the 3-year-long project that IIHS worked on in collaboration with the University of East Anglia, IIT Madras, The Open ...

However, mere adoption of currently available growing solutions from traditional outdoor farming ... the need for indoor urban farming solutions, the National University of Singapore (NUS ...

Brad McNamara, a co-founder of Freight Farms, graduated from Clark University in Worcester in 2013 and later helped bring one of the company’s containers to the school. Freight Farm’s Greenery ...

but the whole city could be fed by also farming land within a short distance of the urban area. Matt Boyd of Adapt Research Ltd, New Zealand, and Nick Wilson of the University of Otago ...

A new University of Michigan-led international ... "The exceptions revealed by our study suggest that urban agriculture practitioners can reduce their climate impacts by cultivating crops that ...