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06/08/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Foraging wild edibles a growing trend – can it also help fight hunger?

It looks like foraging, a crucial survival skill, can soon be used to help fight food insecurity. Foraging has become a profitable craze, and everyone from chefs to cooks to craft brewers are now harvesting wild and local ingredients. Wild edibles like berries, dandelion greens, mushrooms, and nettles are in demand, and a recent peer-reviewed study […]

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 […]

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