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05/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Shanghai goes green: District with towering vertical farms may become a reality in the near future

From towering symbols of urbanization, the skyscrapers of Shanghai may soon become agrarian wellsprings. Such is the plan for Sunqiao Urban Agricultural District, a 250-acre district where people will live, work, and shop while surrounded by massive vertical farming systems. Sasaki, the US-based architectural firm behind this bold undertaking, has called Sunqiao “a new approach […]

07/08/2016 / By D. Samuelson

How gardening has actually become an act of defiance against our oppressive political system

“Food is a weapon.” Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, made that statement. The year was 1971, riding the waves of the first “green revolution” exported from the U.S. replete with hybrid seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and farming equipment like tractors and combines. Mr. Butz had determined that food was an important weapon in the fight communism. His words did not reflect a new […]

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