Construct a Mini Smart Farm
Check out this DIY smart farm that will keep all of your home grown vegetables and plants watered and healthy.
urban farming
Green Bronx Machine Blends Science, Food, and Learning
The Green Bronx Machine is about more than growing food… it’s about growing minds!
Greening Cities with Snap-together DIY Farming Kits
The designs for these snap-together farming kits are open source and community designed.
Make Your Own Maps: DIY on GIS Day
Today’s the 15th annual GIS Day, “the annual salute to geospatial technology and its power to transform and better our lives” with over 700 events around the world. For example, in Indiana, drone-heads will collect GIS data with UAVs. WTH is GIS, you ask? GIS stands for Geographic Information System, or sometimes people call it geospatial information studies. It’s your […]
Homegrown Village: Food, Farming, and More
The Homegrown Village at Maker Faire celebrates the fact that farmers and food makers are the original makers. After all, the earliest examples of tool-making and innovation is for the making, hunting, and growing of food. Homegrown Village is back for the 5th year running, and you can still be part of it as a maker, presenter, demonstrator, and, of course, visitor.
Food Makers: Live and Online Nov. 7 at 2pm PST/5pm EST
This week on Food Makers, a weekly Google+ hangout on air, I’ll be talking to members of Re:Farm the City. Re: Farm is an international collective started by Spain’s Hernani Dias. Members develop open source hardware and software for urban farmers.
An Urban Farm in a Concrete Jungle
While New York City is known more for its “Silicon Alley” start-ups, showrooms for just about every major technology company, and of course the boogie-woogie lights of Broadway and Times Square, there’s another – older and often unseen – side to the city of five boroughs.
