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LibraryFarm: Check out a Garden Plot With Your Books

The LibraryFarm, in a small community library in upstate New York, is helping teach food literacy.

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How To: Build a DIY, Pop-Up Seed Swapping Station

Hawaii-based Eating in Public has designed this simple guide to building your own local seed swap station.

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Room with a View: Window Shutter As Micro Urban Garden

Two French designers created a device that can turn any old window into a site for urban gardening

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A Crowdfunded Farm Brings Traditional Mexican Flavors to New York

Staten Island's El Poblano Farm, and its epazote and popalo, aim to bring the Big Apple out of the Mexican food backwaters.

Bananas in Paris? Maybe, With This Stylish Greenhouse

A French architecture firm wants to bring a vertical banana plantation into the city's center.

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Farmscape Brings Urban Agriculture to Los Angeles

Farmscape is bringing farms to the homes and businesses of Los Angeles. Oh, and the company is also trying to run for mayor of the city.

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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky

A design for a geodesic dome could allow for affordable rooftop aquaponics.

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In New York City, Growing Greens As Art and Local Food

Artist Jenna Spevack has converted everyday objects into minifarms.

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GOOD Ideas for Cities: Encouraging Local Food Production

How to get a city that's surrounded by farmland to eat locally? Grow what local residents want to eat in convenient neighborhood gardens.

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Rebranding the Food Movement to Broaden Its Appeal

A health food corner store in Atlanta eschews the local food movement's idealization of agricultural labor, opting for a vintage-train vibe.

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Is Cyber-Gardening the New Urban Gardening?

At an experimental algae farm, technology, biology, and architecture unite to educate the public.

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Urban Beehives Get a Redesign

A new design competition will have you buzzing.

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The Future of Food, Sprouting Under LED Lights

LED Lights, sensors, and mathematical models could spell the future of sustainable agriculture.