Posts tagged with: urban farming

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Get Started With Spin Farming

By Linda Borghi / April 2, 2011

Calling all aspiring farmers. If you have a calling to farm but you have no land, no money and no farming experience. No problem. Be a SPIN farmer! My name is Linda Borghi, and I am a SPIN farmer in Walker Valley New York. SPIN stands for Small Plot INtensive. It’s an organic-based production system…

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Aeroponics: a piece of the urban farming jigsaw puzzle?

By Aaron Munzer / October 3, 2010

Ed Harwood is willing to concede that many folks think of urban farming as raised beds on vacant lots. But he also thinks there’s another way to grow vegetables in cities that’s just as promising, and it uses a new stackable, modular hydroponics technology called aeroponics, that his company AeroFarms has refined and now offers…

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