urban farming Archives

Jordan has spent much of his life writing about his many geeky pastimes. He's particularly passionate about indie game design and Japanese art, but loves interacting with creators from all walks of life.

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February 20th, 2018February 16th, 2018

Check out this DIY smart farm that will keep all of your home grown vegetables and plants watered and healthy.

Green Bronx Machine Blends Science, Food, and Learning

By Stephen Ritz

Stephen Ritz

Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx educator / administrator who believes that students shouldn’t have to leave their community to live, learn, and earn in a better one. Moving generations of students into spheres of personal and academic successes which they had never imagined — while reclaiming and rebuilding the Bronx — Stephen’s extended student and community family have grown more than 40,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance.

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September 30th, 2016September 29th, 2016

The Green Bronx Machine is about more than growing food… it’s about growing minds!

Greening Cities with Snap-together DIY Farming Kits

By Bilal Ghalib

Bilal Ghalib

Good human :)

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By Michael Floyd

Michael Floyd

Michael Floyd is a creative director and sustainability consultant. As Marketing Lead for Autodesk's Making for Impact program, his work supports and amplifies the positive environmental and social impact of the global maker community. Originally from the US, he has been a Londoner for seven years

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December 5th, 2015December 4th, 2015

The designs for these snap-together farming kits are open source and community designed.

Make Your Own Maps: DIY on GIS Day

By Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka

Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka

Michelle, or Binka, makes . While at Maker Media, she oversaw publications, outreach, and programming for kids, families, and schools. Before joining Maker Media in 2007, she worked at the Exploratorium, in Mitchel Resnick’s Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, and as a curriculum designer for various publishers and educational researchers. When she’s not supporting future makers, including her two young sons, Binka does some making of her own, most often as a visual artist.

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November 19th, 2014November 11th, 2015

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

By Karen Tanenbaum

Karen Tanenbaum

I am a technology researcher and designer; a Steampunk prop maker and costumer; a writer of both academic papers and blog posts; a voracious reader/watcher of science fiction. I am currently contributing to MAKE by writing about the Maker Faire. You can contact me via karen@makermedia.com

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March 21st, 2013 0

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

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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November 6th, 2012 4

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

By Nick Normal

Nick Normal

I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!

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February 16th, 2012 0

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.

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