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Want Big Veggies? Pee in Your Fireplace Ashes

Just about anyone will tell you that pee and food don’t mix. The idea of someone urinating on your food before it makes its way onto your plate is probably enough to make you feel a little nauseous – but, surprise! Piss can make veggies grow bigger and tastier, especially when mixed with wood ash.
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Urban Organic Gardener: Self-Watering Fire Escape Garden in NYC

You don’t have to have a lot of outdoor space or cash to start an organic garden – in fact, if you’ve got a fire escape and some plastic containers in your recycling bin, you can grow everything from fresh greens and tomatoes to a wide array of herbs. Just ask Mike Lieberman, who built [...]

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Smart Green Design: Indoor Vertical Gardening for Apartment Dwellers

Sometimes, windows just aren’t enough to grow anything but shade-loving plants. Depending on what side of the building your apartment is on – or whether it’s looking out into an alley or courtyard – you might not get anywhere near enough sun to keep plants alive. So, what’s a wannabe gardening urbanite to do?
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Gardening, Recycling and Nudity, Oh My

So, we’ve heard of gardening nude… a couple was recently in the news for doing and there’s even a World Naked Gardening Day (link NSFW)… but we’ve never seen it used as a marketing tool. Until now.
Woolly Pockets creates these awesome soft-sided gardening containers made from 100% recycled plastic bottles, allowing you to create beautiful [...]

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Mission Seedbomb: Guerilla Gardening on a Massive Scale

Inspired by a story about an America pilot dropping candies instead of bombs into post-World War II Berlin, designer Hwang Jin wook has created a project called ‘Mission Seedbomb’ that would pelt desert land with capsules full of soil and seeds.
Biodegradable plastic ‘bombs’ containing artificial soil and seeds would be dispersed from a bomber aircraft [...]

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The Future of Sustainable Food: Are we on the Edge of a New Era?

Following a huge grassroots effort to get a victory garden reestablished on the White House lawn, Michelle Obama made it official last week: an organic kitchen garden is now in progress near the fountain on the South Lawn. As we had hoped, Mrs. Obama is helping to elevate awareness of healthy, locally and sustainably grown [...]

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