Container gardening

Another untraditional form of gardening or farming, apart from urban farming, is container gardening or vertical gardening. There are many initiatives and some are less sustainable than they seem, as is shown in the Low-tech Magazine. But on this blog, the Belgian honorary professor Willem Van Cothem, who is a specialist in desertification, poverty and dryland gardening, tries to collect all kinds of interesting and useful information on container gardening.

Urban Farming examples

Source: Potage-Toit

New York with its more than 600 projects, is leader in the field of urban farming. Jan Vannoppen, managing director of VELT, the Flemish organisation for ecological living and gardening, was in NY from Octobre 3-7 to visit some of these projects. He blogged about his visit on MO (in Dutch).
More information on urban farming projects (mainly in the US) can be found on the website of Urban Farming.
Examples of window farming can be found here. Examples of urban farming in Belgium can be found on the website of Greenmarx or in the blog of Potage-Toit (in French and Dutch) about an urban farming project in the centre of Brussels.

How to save food without using a fridge?

Source: Savefoodfromthefridge

The Korean designer Jihyun Riyou is inspired by the traditional oral knowledge of saving food without using a fridge, knowledge that has been used in her country in the past. She designed a whole system to save fruit, potatoes, herbs, vegetables, ...without using a fridge. All details can be found on her site. She also keeps a blog to share her ideas and where she asks everyone to share his/her knowledge.

Window farms or how to grow food in your apartment

Britta Riley tells in a TED talk 'A garden in my apartment' her experiences with growing food in her apartment and how she and her friends from all over the world researched, tested and tweaked the system using social media. They call it R&DIY! If you are interested in their experiences, have a look at their blog rndiy.org.

Wanna know your food footprint?

Our Western food consumption has a high environmental impact. You want to know your own food footprint and what to do to improve it?
Take a look at the Food Carbon Footprint Calculator (UK) or the Voedselafdruk (NL)