Inside Urban Green Modern methods of growing food, foliage or flowers for the millions of us who are not green thumbs

Join Our Mailing List « Future jobs: What Might You Be Doing? « Science So What | Main | Water Archives Conservation: World Water Day, March 22 » Email: October 2016 March 19, 2010 September 2016 August 2016 Go SmartPlanet: Rethinking Agriculture With July 2016 Genetic Engineering June 2016 For Email Newsletters May 2016 you can trust April 2016 February 2016 Search January 2016 December 2015

More...

Recent Posts

A New Way to Deliver WWW Water to Sub-irrigated insideurbangreen.org Planters in the Balcony Pollinator Garden...or Google Search Anywhere Else for that Matter More Information About Pages the No-Drip SIP Pollinator Balcony About Inside Urban Garden Green An Urban Garden to News, Articles & Events Improve the Quality of Life for Bees, Butterflies...and You! Subscribe to this blog's SIP Pollinator Gardens, feed Are we doing a good job of motivating and educating more young women to be Part 3 - Maintaining future Pan Ronald's? From where I sit, I think not. Them Flickr SIP Pollinator Gardens, For the future of our country, let’s hope the Obama administration really does Part 2 - How to Make Flickr: Greenscaper something effective in the way of education reform...and of course...this should Them not be a partisan issue. Google Plus: Pollinator SIP Gardens - Part 1 https://plus.google.com/1178757V6i7a1:2 S53m3a4r8t5P2l2a6n2et The Indoor Desert Many consider genetically engineered food controversial, but to Garden is Now Growing My Sites Pamela Ronald a UC Davis professor, it could be the answer to on the East Coast feeding the world. Twenty five percent of the world's rice is grown Garden State Urban Flickr - Digital Age Farms Helping Again to Plant Set in areas that are very prone to submergence, and after three days rice will die. Ronald's lab has genetically engineered rice to help Fight Obesity and InsideGreenNYC.org Fresh Food Deserts the plant be tolerant to stress and disease. The varieties her team has developed can survive for two weeks underwater and are An Update About the Indoor Desert Garden Categories expected to improve the livelihood of millions of farmers in Growing in Sub- developing countries. irrigated Planters (SIPs) AeroGarden The Stephen Ritz Green My name is Pam Ronald. I'm a professor at the University California Davis and I study the role that genes play in the response to the Bronx Machine Alberta Agriculture Roadshow Will be in environment. Alterrus formerly Toronto Tomorrow Valcent I am very interested in the natural world and very interested in Evening Aquaculture food and the world's food supply so rice is a very important staple Aqualok food for half the people on this planet. 25% of the worlds rice is Categories grown in areas that are very prone to submergence and we think Aquapad sub-irrigation of rice as growing in water which it does but if it's completely AeroGarden Aeroponics Alberta Agriculture submerged for more than 3 days most rice varieties will die. My Alterrus formerly Artificial Lighting laboratory works on tolerance to stress and disease and so we Valcent Aquaculture Bag or Vertical have many different plants in the greenhouse, most of them are Aqualok Aquapad sub- Gardening genetically engineered rice plants that carry different genes that irrigation Aquaponics Artificial Lighting Bag or Balcony gardening we have identified that we believe can help the plant be tolerance Vertical Gardening Bioscience to stress and disease. We use modern molecular approaches to Balcony gardening isolate the gene encoding that trait and then the group in the Bioscience Bonsai Bonsai Philippians used breathing approach to introduce that gene into Botanical Gardens Botanical Gardens BrightFarms Center for varieties that are favored by farmers in Bangladesh and India. So Urban Greenscaping BrightFarms those new varieties that were developed survive for 2 weeks under Clay pots , Coco Center for Urban water and this is very important and it's expected to affect the Peat Community Greenscaping livelihood of millions of farmers in these areas. We certainly need Gardening Company Gardens Composting Clay pots to radically rethink agriculture as it is today. We are still using too many toxic inputs and we still do not have fantastic ways of Container Coir, Coco Peat controlling losses to diseases, pests, and stresses so really the Gardening Community Gardening future of food is to provide seeds and farming practices to those Contaminated Soil Company Gardens Controlled Environment farmers that are going to be feeding the world. Agriculture CEA Composting Counterculturalism Cut Container Gardening Posted by Greenscaper on March 19, 2010 at 12:05 AM inE ducation, Urban Agriculture, Urban Flowers D.I.Y. Sub- Food Supply, Urban Future | Permalink irrigation Daily Drain Contaminated Soil Hole Report Diet and Controlled Nutrition Digital Age Environment Garden Centers Drench Agriculture CEA & Drain Watering Drip Comments System Drought Counterculturalism Drought Tolerant Plants Cut Flowers littlefish said... EarthBox EarthTainer Ebb & Flow D.I.Y. Sub-irrigation speaking of rice, SIPs be a great way to grow rice, yes? Irrigation aka Sub- Daily Drain Hole Report irrigation Economy you always make sure there's never too much water Editorial Comment Diet and Nutrition through a strategic placement of the overflow hole. Education Enabled Digital Age Garden Gardening EPA Factory Centers Reply March 23, 2010 at 12:10 Farming Farm 1 at P.S1 Drench & Drain PM FARM:shop Ferrocement (aka ferrocrete) Watering Fertililzer, Nutrients Drip System Ficus benjamina Field Sub-irrigation Fire Drought Escape "Farming" Drought Tolerant Comments on this post are closed. Flowers Food Plants Distribution Garden Patch Grow Box Garden EarthBox State Urban Farms EarthTainer Gleaning Google Garden Green Buildings Green Ebb & Flow Irrigation Business Green aka Sub-irrigation Colleges Green Gadgets Economy Green Homes Green Editorial Comment Jobs Green roofs Green Roofs Green Walls Education Greenhouses Growing Enabled Gardening Connection, The Growing Media EPA Horticultural Therapy Horticulture Education Factory Farming Hortitainment Farm 1 at P.S1 Hydroculture FARM:shop Hydroponics - Raft Ferrocement (aka Hydroponics NFT Hydroponics, Simplified ferrocrete) SH Indoor Air Quality Fertililzer, Nutrients Indoor Edible Gardening Indoor Light Gardens Ficus benjamina Indoor Plants Indoor Field Sub-irrigation Plants aka Fire Escape "Farming" Houseplants Inside Plants Science Lab Flowers Interior Plantscaping Food Distribution Keyhole Raised Bed Gardens Kids Garden Patch Grow Box Gardening L.E.D. Garden State Urban Lighting Lead Poisoning Farms Light Garden Lighting for Plants Living Walls Gleaning Local Food Marijuana, Google Garden Cannabis Marketing McGill Edible Campus Green Buildings NatureMill Obesity Green Business Office Design - Plants OLED Lighting Organic Green Colleges Growing Pallet Planters Green Gadgets Parklets Patrick Blanc - Felt Living Walls Green Homes People's Gardens Peri- Green Jobs urban Agriculture Permaculture, Green roofs Permaculturist Personal Green Roofs Food Production Pest Management Plant Green Walls disease Plant Furniture Greenhouses Plant pests Plant Science Growing Connection, Plastics PONG Portable The Micro Garden (PMG) Portable Micro Growing Media Gardens/Farms Propagation PS 133, Horticultural Therapy Brooklyn PS 39, Horticulture Education Brooklyn PS102 Hortitainment Rainwater collection Raised beds Hydroculture Recirculating Farms Recycled Buildings Hydroponics Recycling/Repurposing Hydroponics - Raft Restaurant Gardens Retail Food Distribution Hydroponics NFT Rolling Rack Garden Rooftop Farming Hydroponics, Simplified Rooftop Garden SH Rooftop Garden Project - Indoor Air Quality Montreal Rooftop Gardening Sack Indoor Edible Gardening/Farming Gardening School Gardening Indoor Light Gardens Science & Technology Search Engines Seed Indoor Plants starting Senior Indoor Plants aka Gardening SIP Auto Houseplants Irrigation SIP Barrels SIP Beds & Boxes SIP Inside Plants Science Buckets SIP City Pickers Lab SIP Corrugated Drain Pipe Interior Plantscaping (CDP) SIP Gardens To Go SIP Patio Pickers SIP Keyhole Raised Bed Pollinator Gardens SIP Gardens Rain Gutter System SIP Recycled Glass Bottles Kids Gardening SIP Recycled Soda L.E.D. Lighting Bottles SIP Service Lead Poisoning SIP Sub- Light Garden Lighting for Plants Irrigated Living Walls Local Food Planter aka Marijuana, Cannabis incorrectly as Marketing "self- McGill Edible Campus watering" SIP NatureMill Tote Boxes Small Obesity Business Smart Home, Office Design - Plants Museum of Science & Industry Social Good OLED Lighting Soil & Growing Media Organic Growing Soil Contamination Soil Moisture Spathiphyllum - Pallet Planters Peace Lily Square Foot Parklets Gardening STEM in Horticulture Sub- Patrick Blanc - Felt irrigation Sub-irrigation Living Walls History Sub-irrigation in People's Gardens the Greenhouse Sub- irrigation: Bubble SIP Peri-urban Agriculture Technology The Growing Permaculture, Connection & UN FAO Permaculturist Tomato Success Kit Tools & Materials Trellis Personal Food UN - FAO Upcycling Production Urban Pest Management Agriculture Plant disease Urban Food Plant Furniture Supply Urban Plant pests Future Urban Plant Science Gardening Urban Plastics Greenscaping PONG Urbanization USDA & Ext Master Gardener Program Portable Micro Garden USDA & Extension (PMG) Vegetable Growing Vermiculture Vertical Portable Micro Farming Vertical Farms Gardens/Farms Vertical Gardens Victory Propagation Gardens Wading Pool PS 133, Brooklyn Gardening Water Conservation Water PS 39, Brooklyn Storage Watering in the PS102 Zone Waterpod Website Reviews White House Rainwater collection White Roofs Wick - Cloth Raised beds Wicking Beds & Boxes Recirculating Farms Window Box SIPs World Food Supply World Recycled Buildings Hunger Recycling/Repurposing Restaurant Gardens Retail Food Distribution Rolling Rack Garden Rooftop Farming Rooftop Garden Rooftop Garden Project - Montreal Rooftop Gardening Sack Gardening/Farming School Gardening Science & Technology Search Engines Seed starting Senior Gardening SIP Auto Irrigation SIP Barrels SIP Beds & Boxes SIP Buckets SIP City Pickers SIP Corrugated Drain Pipe (CDP) SIP Gardens To Go SIP Patio Pickers SIP Pollinator Gardens SIP Rain Gutter System SIP Recycled Glass Bottles SIP Recycled Soda Bottles SIP Service SIP Sub-Irrigated Planter aka incorrectly as "self-watering" SIP Tote Boxes Small Business Smart Home, Museum of Science & Industry Social Good Soil & Growing Media Soil Contamination Soil Moisture Spathiphyllum - Peace Lily Square Foot Gardening STEM in Horticulture Sub-irrigation Sub-irrigation History Sub-irrigation in the Greenhouse Sub-irrigation: Bubble SIP Technology The Growing Connection & UN FAO Tomato Success Kit Tools & Materials Trellis UN - FAO Upcycling Urban Agriculture Urban Food Supply Urban Future Urban Gardening Urban Greenscaping Urbanization USDA & Ext Master Gardener Program USDA & Extension Vegetable Growing Vermiculture Vertical Farms Vertical Gardens Victory Gardens Wading Pool Gardening Water Conservation Water Storage Watering in the Zone Waterpod Website Reviews White House White Roofs Wick - Cloth Wicking Beds & Boxes Window Box SIPs World Food Supply World Hunger