Rooftop farm grows on award-winning Denizen Bushwick building
After five years of design and construction, ODA New York has completed Denizen Bushwick, a 1.2-million-square-foot...
Check out Glasir, the tree-shaped urban farming solution
In a bid to revolutionize agriculture, New York City and Bergen-based innovation studio Framlab has proposed...
Sherpa Light for indoor farming wins CES 2020 Innovation Award
Developed with the tagline "Grow whatever your heart desires, wherever you are," Sherpa Light is a tunable artificial...
Old bus is converted into a mobile greenhouse to teach students about sustainable eating habits
Sometimes, a little hands-on education goes a very long way when it comes to instilling sustainable and healthy...
Interview: Activist lives off food that he grows and forages for an entire year
Rob Greenfield is a self-described “adventurer, environmental activist, humanitarian and dude making a difference.”...
A massive urban vineyard will envelop a new research center in Milan
International design and innovation firm Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has won first place in the C40 Cities Climate...
SCAD students fight food insecurity in Georgia with organic farming and beekeeping
For a break from schoolwork, students at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) have been swapping their...
MVRDV-designed market in Taiwan will grow food on a massive green roof
Hot on the heels of its bold “Times Square” proposal for Taiwan’s capital, MVRDV has broken ground on another...
SUPERFARM design envisions an urban vertical farm that is energy self-sufficient
French design practice Studio NAB has proposed a large-scale vertical farm as a sustainable solution to urban population...
This Garden Planner makes urban gardening easy
Gardening can seem like a daunting task. When do you plant? What should you plant in your area? How can you effectively...
This high-tech LED lighting could grow veggies in space
Move over, freeze-dried foods and Tang. The astronauts of tomorrow may be growing veggies in their spacecraft or...
How to grow a lush garden in your tiny kitchen windowsill
Envision a garden — you probably picture rows of corn neatly spaced across a field or lettuce coming to life...
Peek inside the BIG-designed garden village for one of the world's best restaurants
After over three years of planning, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed the new home for Noma, an award-winning,...
An urban farm and restaurant flourishes in Utrecht’s “circular” pavilion
A new restaurant celebrating sustainability has opened in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Designed by Dutch architecture...
UN Environment and Yale present a sustainable tiny home in NYC
U.N. Environment and Yale University’s School of Architecture has unveiled an innovative tiny home that explores...
HOK designs aquaponics facility to alleviate Kansas City’s food desert
Nonprofit Nile Valley Aquaponics is raising fish in a Kansas City food desert—and they’re creating jobs, providing...
How are millennials’ preferences changing the food industry?
Millennials are dramatically disrupting the way food is produced, packaged, marketed and served. As a highly vocal...
Can vertical farming feed the world and change the agriculture industry?
Year after year, cities expand and pristine natural habitats are turned into farms and pastures to support the...
Brooklyn Grange announces a new location — in a former WWII shipyard
Inhabitat is thrilled to announce that New York City urban farming group Brooklyn Grange is launching its first...
This hexagonal indoor farm grows more food in less space with 90% less water
Hexagro's Living Farming Tree is a groundbreaking indoor garden that uses technology to grow food faster using...
Space10 is taking on fast food with bug-based burgers and meatballs
Space10 is re-inventing our favorite fast food dishes in a delicious and sustainable way. We've all heard that...
NYC's Farm One delivers rare, ultra-fresh produce in just 30 minutes
The farm-to-table movement has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years - and now NYC chefs can pick up...
INTERVIEW: Model Summer Rayne Oakes turned her Brooklyn apartment into a greenhouse filled with 200+ plants
When she's not busy enacting change in the garment industry or making the latest sustainable fashions look amazing,...
One of the last remaining communities still farming like the Aztecs
The village of?San Gregorio Atlapulco is one of the only remaining communities that farms in the Aztec agricultural...
INTERVIEW: Dorothy Neagle of the Good Food Jobs "gastro-job" search tool
In 2004, friends Dorothy Neagle and Taylor Cocalis Suazez created Good Food Jobs, an innovative "gastro-job" search...
Vacant lots are being transformed into urban bee farms in Detroit
"Work hard, stay bumble," is the motto of Detroit nonprofit Detroit Hives. The organization aims to conserve honeybees...
DIY: Sweet plantable valentines made from recycled paper
Share your love this Valentine's Day by gifting tiny plantable paper hearts made with recycled materials! Come...
6 places where soil-less farming is revolutionizing how we grow food
If it seems like "hydroponic systems" are everywhere, that's because they are. Hydroponic farming is one efficient...
The world's first vertical forest for low-income housing is coming to the Netherlands
Stefano Boeri has designed and built vertical forests across the globe, but his latest project, slated for Eindhoven...
Hanoi's koi cafe has a thriving ecosystem complete with an aquaponic garden
From the outside, this café in Hanoi, Vietnam looks fairly traditional with a tile fa?ade that resembles fish...