Terreform, a nonprofit architecture collective transforms the rooftop of a building in downtown Brooklyn into a shelter and farm for urban refugees- people displaced by the mortgage crisis. Their two-week project, called Terrefarm, used only materials found in the building, and involved students and teachers from around the world.

TerreFarm 2010

TerreFarm Lab runs from:
July 12th – 30th, 2010

Summer Lab for students, architects, scientists, artists, and individuals of all backgrounds to explore the larger framework of urban agriculture and its effects on the architecture and urban design of NYC.

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Union Baptist Church garden

By Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan
The Herald Sun
Apr 14, 2010

DURHAM — A new urban farm has been planted in a vacant lot in Durham as the community garden trend spreads throughout the city. Triscuit crackers, the nonprofit Urban Farming and Union Baptist Church joined together Tuesday morning to break ground on a vegetable and herb garden next to the church and its school on Corporation Street.

Funded by Triscuit, Urban Farming is helping to plant 50 urban farms across the country. Urban Farming founder Taja Sevelle said she uses the word “farming” rather than “garden” to foster the feeling of being down home and getting back to the days of people growing their own food. Gardening is more of a hobby, she said.

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Bomb crater, blitzed gardens 1942

London. M/S of Westminster cathedral, the camera pans across to a bomb crater near it which has been turned into a garden. M/S of Mr Hayes who has grown and tended the flowers and vegetables. Various shots of him in the garden.

Various shots as girls of the National Fire Force walk into a big allotment with their gardening tools. The garden has been grown where rubble used to be and now boasts a variety of vegetables. Various shots as the girls tend the garden. C/U’s of little tomatoes and apples. M/S as cabbages are gathered.

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Mary Gazetas of the Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Program stands at Terra Nova rural park, where farming classes are held. She says there’s ‘a renaissance’ of people wanting to connect with the land again.
Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG, Vancouver Sun

Budding farmers can learn from the ground up at Richmond farm school

By Kelly Sinoski,
Vancouver Sun
April 14, 2010

Excerpt:

Most of its farmland was paved over decades ago, but the City of Richmond has found new ground to support a growing resurgence of the community gardener.

The city this week finalized a three-year agreement with the Richmond Food Security Society, giving the group a one-time $15,000 grant to run the city’s four community gardens as well as the $8,000 it collects annually from the gardens.

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Garden to be demolished this year due to redevelopment in the area

Inspired By The East Harlem Community Gardens And In Celebration Of The 40th Anniversary Of Earth Day At The Somniac Gallery

New York – Oliver Rios, founder of Orios Designs Co. , brings you The Magic Garden (TMG), an exhibit inspired by a community garden in East Harlem. TMG was founded in 1991 by Lydia Roman (Oliver’s mother). After 15 years of its prominent existence in the neighborhood, the community garden, located at 118th St. and Park Ave., will be demolished due to redevelopment. Through this exhibit, Oliver hopes to raise awareness on the importance of gardens in urban communities and also to motivate residents in supporting those gardens that are still in existence.

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