March 9, 2010. Homegrown Harvest: Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray tend to Brooklyn’s first window farm. This form of urban agriculture is catching on in cities around the world, as downtown farmers go online to share techniques for growing greens indoors.

Window Farming: A Do-It-Yourself Veggie Venture

by Jon Kalish
NPR.org
April 4, 2010

Excerpt:

If you have a green thumb, a window and a serious Do-It-Yourself ethic, you too, can be a farmer … even in your downtown apartment building. Spring is here, and for urban dwellers with no access to soil, hydroponic gardening is a way to grow fresh veggies indoors.

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Forthcoming June 2010

Regionalverband Ruhr
1. Edition 2010, approx. 112 Pages
150 color Illustrations, Hard cover
German, English
The volume editor, the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR; Ruhr Regional Association), is an alliance of the communes of the Ruhr region.

Agricultural areas in industrial and urban regions will in the future no longer be seen merely as functional space but rather as “islands of the beautiful and the useful.” In the extremely densely built Ruhr region, two projects explore the space between postindustrial forest landscape and useful agricultural landscape: the Industrial Forest of Rhine-Elbe and the Ornamental Farm of Mechtenberg.

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