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fromCulture Trip
1 day ago

The Berlin Airport Gardens Creating Community And Sustainability

Each day is different at Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld - the largest inner-city open space in the world, which has become a treasured symbol of community and environmental connection in the heart of the German capital. The seemingly endless expanse was an airport until 2008, but today, it is rollerbladers, skaters and cyclists who take advantage of the fine asphalt runways within hundreds of acres of public green space.
Berlin
fromThe Oaklandside
2 weeks ago

Dahlias are in full bloom at The Gardens at Lake Merritt

It's a sweltering Thursday afternoon at The Gardens at Lake Merritt, where longtime dahlia growers Chris Dix and Curtis Maxwell are tending to the colorful perennials adjacent to the Lakeside Park Garden Center. Dix and Maxwell are members of the San Leandro Dahlia Society who are currently preparing for the upcoming competition show at the center on Saturday, Aug. 30 and Sunday, Aug. 31.
East Bay (California)
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Digested week: Allotment folly, the trolley problem and gen Z bedtimes | Lucy Mangan

Councils' ability to sell allotments for funds is criticized for undermining communal gardening.
#urban-agriculture
#food-sovereignty
fromDwell
1 month ago
Food & drink

A South Bronx Garden Offers a Place for New York's Immigrant Communities to Keep Traditions Alive

fromDwell
1 month ago
Food & drink

A South Bronx Garden Offers a Place for New York's Immigrant Communities to Keep Traditions Alive

Agriculture
fromEarth911
2 months ago

Neighborhood Nourishment: How To Form a Community Garden

Growing your own food provides financial savings and avoids harmful chemicals while enabling environmental benefits.
fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community - High Country News

Urban agricultural spaces—neighborhood gardens—can reduce local temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and trees can lower the 'real feel' temperature by up to 30 degrees.
Agriculture
fromwww.hamhigh.co.uk
2 months ago

The secret garden where you can share seeds and learn to grow veg

This two-acre secret garden, once a derelict nursery, has transformed into the UK's first center for food, ecology, and creativity, fostering community engagement.
London politics
Brooklyn
fromRemodelista
3 months ago

Quick Takes With: Junior Schouten - Remodelista

Brooklyn Grange specializes in creating sustainable rooftop gardens to connect urban dwellers with nature.
Brooklyn
fromBKReader
4 months ago

Bed-Stuy Blossoms With Upgraded Community Garden

The Lefferts Place Community Garden renovations symbolize community collaboration and sustainability efforts in enhancing urban green spaces.
fromTruthout
4 months ago

Trump Guts Farm-to-School Grants, Undermining "Make America Healthy Again" Plan

"They're mending the soil one week, and then the next week they're going to start to see these little seedlings pop through the soil, because they're healthy and they're happy and they have sunshine, and they've watered them."
SF food
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