Urban Farming Blog

It’s hard to overstate the importance of good soil.  Tomatoes with rotten bottoms, plants with yellow leaves, and stunted growth are all symptoms of nutrient-deprived soil.  Fortunately, with the right organic fertilizers these problems can be easily remedied.  What is more troublesome are the soil problems that don’t affect the […]

Kale is a fabulous cool weather crop, one that actually tastes SWEETER when the weather turns cold, losing the bitter taste it can have when grown in warmer months. And unless you’re installing cold frames on your garden this week or next, a crop that you should harvest before the […]

… Of lettuce? As counter-intuitive as it may feel, thinning is an extremely important step in urban farming and will actually improve yield when working in small spaces. Less really is more! Thinning determines the space a plant is allowed to grow. Root crops such as carrots, beets and radishes, […]

Green City Growers can’t wait to begin the March Urban Farming Course, where we get to help you gain the skills you need to plan, plant, harvest and maintain gardens at home and in your community. Think you’ve seen it all? We are also going to spend some time teaching you how […]

Don’t let plastic touch your food, really? EVER? Why? HOW? If you caught the On Point segment “The Safety of Plastics, Beyond B.P.A.” with Tom Ashbrook this week, you heard the strong warnings from Mariah Blake, the reporter for Mother Jones on “The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics,” and […]

If Russia can turn Sochi, a summer resort village, into a Winter Olympic host city, why can’t we also flip the seasons and make a successful growing season out of our cold New England winter (without the environmental impact of refrigerating 710,000 cubic meters of snow through the summer to […]

Honey bees account for the necessary pollination of one third of everything we eat. One third! The increase in use of lawn chemicals, pesticides on crops and in gardens, and chemicals in the home is in large part to blame for the decimation of our bees… And there is something we […]

America’s urban neighborhoods may be vibrant, teeming-with-life, cornucopias of activity, but all too often they are also food deserts. What is a food desert? A food desert is a geographic area, generally in poor urban areas, where affordable & healthy food is difficult to obtain, particularly for those without access […]

Today, the first Friday in February, is the American Heart Association Go Red For Women Day. The staff at Green City Growers is 75% women, so we’re celebrating! We realize it takes more than one day of wearing red to end heart disease, the number one killer of women in America. Why […]