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"Translucent ‘ghost plant’ that resembles dead flesh found in Great Smoky Mountains": https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article231925218.html
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"Ant farmers boost plant nutrition with their feces, offering clues for future food security": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190624204755.htm
Humans began cultivating crops about 12,000 years ago. Ants have been at it rather longer. Leafcutter ants, the best-known insect farmers, belong to a lineage of insects that have been running fungus farms based on chopped-up vegetable matter for over 50 million years. The ant farming of flowering plants, however, started more recently, about 3 million years ago in the Fiji Islands.
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@theCCCuk has called for an increase in UK woodland cover to 17% by 2050. This would require a planting rate of 30,000 hectares a year: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/ #Garden #Regenerative
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New England Is Losing Its Native Plants. Researchers Say It’s Time To Stop And Smell The Wildflowers: https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2019/06/06/new-england-wildflower-declines #Garden #Regenerative
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"In just 30 years, India has lost large forests to 23,716 industrial projects - India’s forests now cover only 21.34% of the country": https://scroll.in/article/809286/in-just-30-years-india-has-lost-large-forests-to-23716-industrial-projects #Garden #ClimateChange
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"Digital farm business coaching: Small Robot Company offers its robots through a Farming as a Service (FaaS) model, which is both a hardware and a software service for farmers": https://www.smallrobotcompany.com/press-releases/2019/6/26/small-robots-launch-farm-ambition-blueprint-and-100-club-groundswellaguk-gw19 #ML #Robot #Garden
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Zadruga Urbana (Urban Cooperative in English) embodies the idea of an urban-agrarian platform that aims to connect collectives and individuals in order to improve self-sufficiency through direct action: https://en.squat.net/tag/community-garden/ #Garden #Regenerative
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Berlin opens Europe's largest urban aquaponics farm: http://www.ecf-farm.de/
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"How Baltimore is saving urban forests – and its city": https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2019/0610/How-Baltimore-is-saving-urban-forests-and-its-city #Urban #Garden #Regenerative
"The words “city” and “forest” don’t usually go together. But urban forests can bring striking benefits, from lower crime rates to higher home values."
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Singapore’s Sky Farms Are Transforming The Agriculture Sector:
https://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/113327/20190606/singapore-s-sky-farms-are-transforming-the-agriculture-sector.htmSingapore's cost-efficient sky farms are changing the way people in the city-state view farming and agriculture as a whole. Lab-grown and in-building products are being promoted to help achieve the ultimate goal of producing 30 percent of Singapore's total food by 2030.
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First round of 15 winners of Reinventing Cities competition announced: https://www.climate-kic.org/news/15-winners-of-reinventing-cities-announced/ #Regenerative #Urban #Garden
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"Living Melbourne: A look under the canopy of the Metropolitan Urban Forest Strategy": http://www.100resilientcities.org/living-melbourne-look-canopy-metropolitan-urban-forest-strategy/ Melbourne has a "Chief Resilience Officer". Report: "Living Melbourne: our metropolitan urban forest": https://resilientmelbourne.com.au/living-melbourne/ #Regenerative #Urban #Garden #Politics
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Farm Container Resources:
- Food Server: https://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/t/food-server-documentation-shipping-container-farms/930
- Farm in a Box: http://seedstock.com/2016/05/01/off-grid-farming-kits-deliver-2-acre-farms-in-shipping-containers/
- Farm from a box: https://www.farmfromabox.com/approach
- Making your Own Urban Farm out of Shipping Container:
- http://www.homegrown.org/profiles/blogs/making-your-own-urban-farm-out-of-shipping-container
- PodPonics: https://cityfarmer.info/podponics-uses-shipping-containers-to-grow-food-downtown/
- Agricool: https://agricool.co http://www.climatechange.ie/startup-to-grow-fresh-super-local-food-out-of-recycled-shipping-containers-in-paris/
- Squarerootsgrow: https://squarerootsgrow.com/
- Cubescircle: https://www.cubescircle.de/de/home/
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Urban farming plants seed of sustainability - The benefits of healthier produce and the social and economic impact are such that more people should embrace the practice:
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"Can planting billions of trees save the planet?": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/19/planting-billions-trees-save-planet?
“We have to make it as natural to give back to nature as it is to take nature for granted,” Dubois says, musing on the need to “shift from a consumer species to a restorer species”.
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By 2030, Paris wants to have 50 percent of the city covered by fully porous, planted areas, including anything from new parkland to green roofs: https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/06/paris-trees-famous-landmarks-garden-park-urban-forest-design/591835/ #Regenerative #ClimateChange #Garden
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Cultivate Personal Produce with SproutsIO, an automated indoor growing system:
https://www.sprouts.io/ #Regenerative #Garden #Technology
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Growbotics AI Vision: https://medium.com/growbotics-ai-blog/growbotics-ai-vision-3f79a9e245f9
"As it turns out water leak is a harder problem to solve than learn how to use RL."
Vertical gardening, aeroponics, artificial intelligence, robotics and blockchain - all in one project: https://medium.com/growbotics-ai-blog/vertical-gardening-aeroponics-artificial-intelligence-robotics-and-blockchain-all-in-one-5d7536e2a0db
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Permaculture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Links
- http://blog.biobizz.com/green-trends/permaculture-join-the-revolution/
- Modern Farmer. Permaculture: You’ve Head of It But What the Heck Is It? https://modernfarmer.com/2016/04/permaculture/
- Never Finding Food. Permaculture. http://www.neverendingfood.org/b-what-is-permaculture
- One Green Planet. 4 Easy Ways To Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Life. https://goo.gl/T7XZ4u
- Organic Life. 5 Ways Your Garden Can Support The Local Wildlife. https://goo.gl/VXUz5a
- Permaculture Principle. Free Downloads. https://permacultureprinciples.com/resources/free-downloads/
