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The Back Garden Project: Nothing Gold Can Stay
This is the 14th and final post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a...
Culture
The Back Garden Project: Metal Workers Wanted!
This is the 13th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...
Cities
The Back Garden Project: Surviving Summer
This is the 13th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...
Lifestyle
Windowfarms, Now Available to Order
We first heard about the Windowfarms project in May of last year. The idea was to crowdsource a practical design for modular hydroponic units...
Cities
The Back Garden Project: The Knotweed Strikes Back
This is the 12th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...
Cities
The Back Garden Project: Produce Report
This is the 11th post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...
Cities
Home Grow Micro Farms: A Farm That Fits in Your Life
Let's face it: Maintaining a productive garden can be hard, especially if you don't have spare time or space. But there's still a way to grow...
Environment
Shared Earth Re-imagines Share Cropping for the Modern World
So you want to be a gardener but lack any hint of a green thumb? Have excess available land in need of a nurturing gardener to till the area?...
Cities
The Back Garden Project: The Best Laid Plans
This is the fourth post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...
Environment
Five Innovative Urban Gardening Programs in Los Angeles
For the first time in the history of the United States, children have lower life expectancies than their parents. This is bad news. Here is some...
Cities
The Back Garden Project: An Introduction
When I moved in to my current apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, a run-down but decent-sized 1.5 bedroom on Dekalb Avenue, one of the biggest...
Environment
Growing Power
Everybody seems to be talking about urban farming these days, from Michelle Obama to my kale-growing neighbors to New Urbanist developer Andres...
Environment
Growing an Urban Farm
Little City Gardens is a blossoming urban farming business located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Farmers Brooke Budner and Caitlyn...
Lifestyle
Bring the Land to the People
The complete antithesis of the rural idyll that many might associate with farming, the 4-1/2 acre Alemany Farm is located just off the decidedly...
Design
Watch Your Garden Grow
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. If you believe the...
