The growing need for food has led to a rising demand for fertilizers—especially nitrogen. But making nitrogen fertilizers ...

Farmers and gardeners at 73 urban agriculture sites in France, Germany, Poland, the UK and the US participated as citizen scientists in the research led by scientists at the University of Michigan ...

an environmental scientist at Lancaster University and lead author of the study, published today in AGU's journal Earth's Future. The new study compiles studies on urban agriculture from 53 ...

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.

Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, has proposed “vertical farming”: growing food—including fish and poultry—in urban buildings as tall ...

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 ...

As urban populations grow ... Unlike the unpredictable weather of outdoor farming, growing indoors allows farmers to tailor conditions to maximize growth. With the proper technology, farming ...

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 ...

Orlando Science Center is partnering with 4Roots Farm to host a series of summer camps on urban farming, sustainability, ...

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 hawk, a live oak and a squirrel were the center of the world for a brief moment at the Medical University of South Carolina's Urban Farm on a mid-September morning. Volunteers, groundcrews and ...

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 ...