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From School Veggie Patch to Wholesale Marketing. Australian School Contribute to Food Fight!
STEM education and its vocational benefits to students has been all the rage, but another less-noticed initiative has been quietly taking...
Urban Green Farms
Apr 11, 20192 min read


Food trends & urban farming. You can make a difference to your life.
It all starts with agriculture, where our food comes from—and that's about to change dramatically. By 2050, the world’s population will...
Urban Green Farms
Oct 11, 20182 min read


2018 Food Trends and Farming. Plant based everything & soil-less food production...
It all starts with agriculture, where our food comes from. And that's about to change - dramatically! #foodsupply #foodproduction...
Urban Green Farms
Oct 9, 20181 min read


For the love of food! How can we reduce waste and save resources?
Reducing food waste is something that we need to work on globally. Not only benefiting our future but the world to. We need to reduce our...
Urban Green Farms
Sep 27, 20181 min read


Aquaponics is a mashup of hydroponics and aquaculture
Aquaponics is a mashup of hydroponics and aquaculture. It is the practice of using fish wastewater as fertiliser for plants, whose roots...
Urban Green Farms
Sep 14, 20181 min read


A long fuse: ‘The Population Bomb’ is still ticking 50 years after its publication, read this book!
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Stanford biologist and ecologist Paul Erhlich declared on the first page of his 1968...
Urban Green Farms
Aug 28, 20181 min read


5 BENEFITS OF VERTICAL FARMING: THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE?
Farming, an activity usually reserved for rural areas, might soon take to the cities ““ vertically. By the year 2050, the world’s...
Urban Green Farms
Aug 23, 20182 min read


Urban Farms: Feeding 1 home at a time...
Large-scale urban agriculture is on the rise globally, with more and more farms appearing in our cities. A far cry from allotments and...
Urban Green Farms
Aug 21, 20182 min read


Food for thought: Considered growing your own?
We currently rely on shipping large amounts of food across the world, leaving us remarkably vulnerable to disruption from wars, climate...
Urban Green Farms
Aug 9, 20181 min read


Why it’s time to curb widespread use of pesticides!
Panting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. corn belt is drawing to a close. As they plant, farmers are participating in what is...
Urban Green Farms
Aug 2, 20183 min read


Aquaponics - Getting More out of Less!
Charlie Price from the social enterprise Aquaponics UK, explores the role aquaponics can play in the future of our collective food...
Urban Green Farms
Jul 24, 20181 min read


How a rooftop farm feeds a city!
TED X talk on rooftop farming and how you can feed a city! Future farms are here. #foodsupply #melbournefood #rooftopfarming...
Urban Green Farms
Jul 17, 20181 min read


Why We Should Be Urban Farming..watch this!
We are running out of space for farmland and a third of all food that is produced is wasted. Source: Repost only. #foodsupply...
Urban Green Farms
Jul 12, 20181 min read


City food bowls are increasingly at risk. What's next?
Our project has previously highlighted risks from urban sprawl, climate change, water scarcity and high levels of food waste. Melbourne’s...
Urban Green Farms
Jul 5, 20182 min read
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