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Property tax breaks aim to help urban farms crop up
Up and down the state, property owners can receive tax breaks for allowing their unused, and often blighted, urban lots to transform into commercial or noncommercial farms under a law that went into effect in 2014. It hasn’t yet resulted in a rash of urban farming, as just four property owners in the state have enrolled so […]
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Urban Farms Continue To Be On The Rise
The New York City urban farm has moved from a scene to a movement. Foodies, growers, chefs, non-profits and artists converge to get ever more creative in how to utilize space in the city for growing fruits and vegetables. Swale by artist Mary Mattingly has taken to putting a farm out on the water. Chicago’s O’Hare airport has […]
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Millennials are getting back to the land — in backyard gardens and urban plots
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Millennials are returning to one of civilizations most ancient traditions – working the land. Whether it’s a business, an urban farm, a plot of land shared by the neighborhood or a garden in their own backyard, the generation that was born after 1980 is planting their hands in soil. According to the […]
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10 Trends in Urban Gardens
In the last year, the urban gardens that have really grabbed people’s attention on Houzz have a number of characteristics in common. All are stylish, contemporary and maximize space for outdoor living. Many have calming color palettes, such as deep green, white and charcoal, and — no surprise — are expertly designed to carve out privacy in […]
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Green City : Vancouver Passive House
With less than four years to go, the likelihood of Vancouver becoming the world’s greenest city by 2020 remains up in the air. A recent development, however, may just be one of the city’s most important environmentally minded initiatives to date: the construction of Canada’s largest “passive house” building, a structure so energy-efficient that experts […]
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