URBAN GARDENS
| Mission: | To green our cities with Urban Gardens and to collaborate and give support to urban garden growers! |
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| Founder: |
 Nicole sorochan,
Victoria |
| Description: | "Urban landscapes are often viewed as barren and cold scenes of concrete, asphalt and glass. They are portrayed as the opposite of the rural pastoral setting, rich in vegetation and greenery. However, in the biggest city, in the tiniest apartment, there exists the possibility to reconnect with the natural world through gardening. Your urban home or apartment does not have to exist as a lifeless box of concrete. Nor do you have to give up the advantages of a big-city metropolitan lifestyle to take pleasure in the joys of gardening. Whether you plant herbs in a window box, maintain a large flower garden in your backyard, or grow veggies in a local community garden, you can garden in the big city. Additionally, the simple act of planting a small flower garden, a tree, or vegetables helps the environment and instills more pride in your community. Even if you aren’t an avid gardener, you can still get involved in local gardening and urban agricultural projects such as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Urban gardening and urban agriculture are ideas that are becoming increasingly important as our world becomes more urbanized and developers transform agriculturally fertile lands and open spaces into sprawling suburbs. This site is dedicated to those environmentally-conscious urban dwellers who want to create a green corner devoted to nature in their own home, or who want to support community-based gardening or agriculture projects in their neighborhood. " (Source: http://www.urbangardeninghelp.com/) |
| Details: | Benefits of community /urban gardens: * Gardens help people to reclaim their neighborhoods turning filth into beauty * Vegetable gardens produce fresh, organic and delicious food * Gardens provide daily recreation and social interaction for retirees * Gardening gives kid and young people a productive, educational and confidence-building activity * Community gardens reflect the cultural identity of the people who create them |
| Tags: | urban city gardening community garden greening |
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Videos
How to Save Water in Your Garden
Howcast | 17 August 2010 Water conservation makes good economic and environmental sense. Here are some ways to save water in your garden....
Connected to: Organic Farming Water Impacts Green Gardening URBAN GARDENS
Howcast | 17 August 2010 Water conservation makes good economic and environmental sense. Here are some ways to save water in your garden....
Connected to: Organic Farming Water Impacts Green Gardening URBAN GARDENS
The $500 Cherry Tomato
EcoPopTV | 06 August 2010 It's National Farmers Market Week so to farmers everywhere, I'd like to thank you for doing what I haven't been able to do: grow enough vegetables for an entire meal....
Connected to: Organic Farming URBAN GARDENS
EcoPopTV | 06 August 2010 It's National Farmers Market Week so to farmers everywhere, I'd like to thank you for doing what I haven't been able to do: grow enough vegetables for an entire meal....
Connected to: Organic Farming URBAN GARDENS
Green Jobs for All: Faces of the new green movement
greenforall | 02 August 2010 ...
Connected to: Organic Farming Ecological Sanitation Pop Culture Campaigns Green Innovation Solar Energy Direct Action Repower America Green Marketing & Messaging Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
greenforall | 02 August 2010 ...
Connected to: Organic Farming Ecological Sanitation Pop Culture Campaigns Green Innovation Solar Energy Direct Action Repower America Green Marketing & Messaging Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
New Zealand Students Bring the Outdoors Inside
NTDTV | 21 July 2010 Innovative students in Wellington, New Zealand teamed up to design something that brings the outdoors inside. They call their brainchild a "Plant Room." Apartment living......
Connected to: Water Impacts Household Power Saving Tips Building and renovating for Sustainable Living Green Innovation Wind energy technologies Sustainable University Movements Green Marketing & Messaging URBAN GARDENS
NTDTV | 21 July 2010 Innovative students in Wellington, New Zealand teamed up to design something that brings the outdoors inside. They call their brainchild a "Plant Room." Apartment living......
Connected to: Water Impacts Household Power Saving Tips Building and renovating for Sustainable Living Green Innovation Wind energy technologies Sustainable University Movements Green Marketing & Messaging URBAN GARDENS
Skinny Bitch Author Rory Freedman Interview on Going Vegan
official peta | 08 July 2010 A self-described former fast-food junkie, Rory explains how going vegan changed her life for the better and gives us the "skinny" on why it's the best possible thing......
Connected to: Organic Farming Direct Action Green Marketing & Messaging Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement URBAN GARDENS
official peta | 08 July 2010 A self-described former fast-food junkie, Rory explains how going vegan changed her life for the better and gives us the "skinny" on why it's the best possible thing......
Connected to: Organic Farming Direct Action Green Marketing & Messaging Fired Up Media Rainforest Protests: World Rainforest Movement URBAN GARDENS
The GOOD Outdoors: Crop Mob
The GOOD Outdoors: Crop Mob From: GOOD Magazine | 10 June 2010 | 4,661 views Clearing fields. Planting. Harvesting by hand. Small, sustainable farms require lots of backbreaking work and farmers......
Connected to: Organic Farming Water Impacts Green Innovation Direct Action Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
The GOOD Outdoors: Crop Mob From: GOOD Magazine | 10 June 2010 | 4,661 views Clearing fields. Planting. Harvesting by hand. Small, sustainable farms require lots of backbreaking work and farmers......
Connected to: Organic Farming Water Impacts Green Innovation Direct Action Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
Eco-justice & Urban Activism: Adrienne Maree Brown on the US Social Forum, Detroit and Octavia Butler
Democracy Now!' 23 June 2010 | 10 minutes Adrienne Maree Brown on the US Social Forum, Detroit and Octavia Butler Thousands of activists and organizers have come from around the world for the......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Emperilled Ecosystems Limiting E-Waste: Technology Recycling Urban Recycling Green Innovation Direct Action Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
Democracy Now!' 23 June 2010 | 10 minutes Adrienne Maree Brown on the US Social Forum, Detroit and Octavia Butler Thousands of activists and organizers have come from around the world for the......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases Emperilled Ecosystems Limiting E-Waste: Technology Recycling Urban Recycling Green Innovation Direct Action Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
Tomatoes 101 with William Moss
GardenGirltv — 27 May 2010 — Master Gardener William Moss from CBS This Morning, gives us the run down on tomatoes, America's most popular home grown vegetable. Visit......
Connected to: Composting Green Gardening Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
GardenGirltv — 27 May 2010 — Master Gardener William Moss from CBS This Morning, gives us the run down on tomatoes, America's most popular home grown vegetable. Visit......
Connected to: Composting Green Gardening Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
Gambling on Hunger: big-time investors make a bundle while the world starves
stopgamblingonhunger — 03 November 2009 — Find out more at: www.stopgamblingonhunger.com Remember when gas was over $4 a gallon? Remember the global food crisis that resulted in dozens of......
Connected to: Emperilled Ecosystems Pop Culture Campaigns Direct Action Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS Endangered Species
stopgamblingonhunger — 03 November 2009 — Find out more at: www.stopgamblingonhunger.com Remember when gas was over $4 a gallon? Remember the global food crisis that resulted in dozens of......
Connected to: Emperilled Ecosystems Pop Culture Campaigns Direct Action Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS Endangered Species
Urban Gardening: How to Test Your Garden Soil's pH Level
GardenGirltv — 09 May 2010 — In this video, Patti Moreno, the Garden GIrl shows you how to test the pH level of your garden soil using a Soil Stick. To purchase a Soil Stick visit......
Connected to: Organic Farming Green Gardening Buying Green Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
GardenGirltv — 09 May 2010 — In this video, Patti Moreno, the Garden GIrl shows you how to test the pH level of your garden soil using a Soil Stick. To purchase a Soil Stick visit......
Connected to: Organic Farming Green Gardening Buying Green Fired Up Media URBAN GARDENS
