880: Rachel Opio on Farming, Healing Soil and Growing Communities. Little Lighthouse Farm’s Big Impact. In This Podcast: In this heartfelt interview, Rachel Opio shares her journey from a career in HR tech to becoming the founder of Little Lighthouse Farm, an urban farm in Phoenix. She discusses her background in data analytics, her mother’s…
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Estimated reading time: 14 minutes Do you want to grow a vegetable garden, but you’re worried about all the shade in your yard? Then I have some good news! There are many vegetables that grow well in shady areas. If your entire yard is covered in shade all day long, then there’s not much you…
Secondly – yay for the new BART train cars! Yesterday I made the trek from San Francisco to El Cerrito Del Norte Station (my grandparents’ old station) to see the new “Fleet of the Future”. Although the new train did not move it moved the soul of this here transit advocate and enthusiast. I arrived…
The view looking down into the park from the entrance above. Updated April 2025 The scent of aromatic plants wafted in the air as I climbed the steps near the Place de la Bastille to reach the world’s first elevated park hidden in plain sight in the middle of Paris. Paris has no shortage of…
Discover the right time and method to water plants so they stay cool and hydrated all day. Ever felt like your plants were giving you the “help me, mama” look at high noon? Don’t worry — we’ve all been there. One minute, your kangkong looks perky; the next, it’s floppier than last night’s leftover fries….
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img { border: 5px solid #FFFFFF; } Here’s a quick contribution to the #30DayMapChallenge, day 2 ‘Lines’: a quick reproducible example showing how to use the r5r package to estimate cycling, walking and driving routes in R. In this example, we generate the cycling, walking and driving routes from 2 thousand random locations to the…
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Growers, Researchers, and Industry Pros Come Together September 9-10 to Share Ideas, Spark Connections, Move CEA Forward DANVILLE, VIRGINIA — The Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Summit East will return to the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) in Danville, Virginia on September 9-10, 2025 for its fourth edition. Co-hosted by Indoor Ag-Con and the CEA Innovation Center, a partnership between IALR and Virginia Tech, the 2025 event will…
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This post was originally published in The Urban Condition by Aushaf Widisto (aka Oswald / Oz), who is an aspiring Urbanist, Writer, and Cultural Researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. It’s a great introduction for urban planning, whether you’re already in the industry or not. “A city is more than a place in space, it is…
Editor’s note: This is the seventh post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Michael Carriere On December 3, 2008, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appeared at a day-long symposium on “concentrated poverty” in America, held at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. Barrett told…
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Wall to Wall Festival, Australia’s most beloved regional street art celebration, returns this April for a vibrant weekend of colour, creativity, and community. Curated and produced by the renowned Juddy Roller—the team behind landmark projects like the Silo Art Trail and Collingwood Housing Project—this year’s event will see Mordi Village in Mordialloctransformed into a spectacular…
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