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City Agriculture - June 19, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-19
In Kenya, a law against sharing indigenous seeds and a village choir raising their voices against it
https://globalvoices.org/2025/05/10/kenya-outlawed-the-sharing-of-indigenous-seeds-an-village-choir-is-fighting-back/
HS student creates an app for an online farmers' market
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/high-school-student-creates-an-online-farmers-market-with-app/69-dea24a69-9172-46e4-aaaa-b23822098006
Vertical farms in cities to alleviate food insecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/13/food-insecurity-vertical-farms-startups-cities
If you hit a paywall, try
https://archive.ph/zOMxS
Schools planting green spaces
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/16/la-schools-green-spaces
Lorain, OH [population 65,000] is beginning a "comprehensive initiative to turn underutilized spaces into thriving centers of food production, education, and opportunity” with the help of a USDA grant
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/urban-farming-lorains-next-frontier-for-innovation-and-growth
Editorial Comment: I wonder if they still have that grant under Trmp and DOGE
LA’s Front Lawn Farm Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We1qoSDfUJE
Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58 hat tip to
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/23/maybe-theres-hope-for-a-hopeless-time/
Gasometer tower to hydroponic production - from relic technology to a future
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/reclaiming-the-industrial-past-for-a-greener-future-jabha-biotower-nam-earns-international-recognition
Indigenous ancient lagoon water management system of Ecuador
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/13/ecuador-indigenous-map-pre-inca-myths-ancient-lagoon-water-drought-
New advances in growing spirulina algae in vertical farms
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/18/a-new-wave-of-algae-is-perking-up-the-vertical-farming-industry/
Food Twin Map - Discover where food is produced and how it travels around the world by selecting any region.
https://foodtwin.theplotline.org/
Explanatory article
https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/a-new-app-details-where-your-food-comes-from-and-just-how-fragile-the-global-food-system-really-is/
Respyre - bioreceptive concrete cladding and a specialised moss gel making it easy to create green facades that purify the air, sequester carbon, and cool buildings
https://www.gorespyre.com/
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