"Translucent ‘ghost plant’ that resembles dead flesh found in Great Smoky Mountains": https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article231925218.html
"Translucent ‘ghost plant’ that resembles dead flesh found in Great Smoky Mountains": https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article231925218.html
"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.
@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
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
"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
"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
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
Berlin opens Europe's largest urban aquaponics farm: http://www.ecf-farm.de/
"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."
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.htm
Singapore'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.
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
"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
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:
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3014678/urban-farming-plants-seed-sustainability #Garden #Regenerative
"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”.
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
Cultivate Personal Produce with SproutsIO, an automated indoor growing system:
https://www.sprouts.io/ #Regenerative #Garden #Technology
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
Permaculture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture