Estimated reading time: 16 minutes If you’ve been waiting to grow your own vegetables until you have a large backyard, your wait is over. You can successfully grow veggies for your family in containers, and the best part is that those containers do not have to be fancy or expensive. Five-gallon buckets work very well….
Talk of a 2nd Transbay Rail Crossing has gained a bit of a bump in the last few weeks due to a few new things: BART’s announcement that it will reduce service in the Transbay Tube for several months (VERIFY DETAILS) to seismically upgrade the tunnel. The UC Berkeley Transportation Studio presented its findings on…
Via Unsplash. In Japanese culture, cherry blossoms symbolize the transient nature of life, a reflection of the Buddhist concept known as “mono no aware,” which recognizes that there is both beauty and mortality in life. I was born to American parents in Japan during cherry blossom season. Like the celebrated flower whose bloom is spectacular…
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What gardening teaches us about the deeper meaning of Holy Week Holy Week has always felt different — the streets are quiet, the air is still, and time seems to slow down. Whether you observe it with processions, family traditions, or quiet prayer, Holy Week invites us to pause, reflect, and renew. As a gardener,…
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img { border: 5px solid #FFFFFF; } The topic of day 5 in the #30DayMapChallenge is ‘OpenStreetMap’. So here is a quick reproducible example showing how one can use OpenStreetMap data and the r5r package to calculate travel times. options(java.parameters = "-Xmx4G") library(r5r) library(geobr) library(sf) library(ggplot2) library(here) library(osmextract) library(data.table) library(magrittr) # create subdirectories "data" and…
Banker plants provide an alternative food source, habitat and often a reproduction site for natural pest enemies. Banker plants can be particularly useful during periods of high nitrogen boosted growth i.e. when the apices are actively growing like the tomatoes above. Even though we operate in controlled environments, working with the natural ecosystem in a…
Photo by Sandy Ravaloniaina on Unsplash Call for participants Democracy Studio & for Cities collaborating with Traveling Circus of Urbanism on urban exploration trip in Africa from October 2021 to July 2022 The African continent will host one-third of the world population in the next generation and went these last years through social, economical, and…
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Editor’s note: This is the third post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Gitonga Njeru Phillip Kilemia, aged 63, was born and raised in Nakuru. The businessman has seen the city grow to what it has become today. “Faced with myriad challenges, it…
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Sugar snap peas on a Freyr trellis. We often quote our book “Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard” and say that fresh snap peas are a reason unto themselves to have your own garden. I’ve never eaten a pea that has tasted as good as the ones I grow in my home garden, and I…
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Become A Member When the City of San Francisco inducted Marcus Books into its famed preservation registry, Dr. Jasmine Johnson considered it less of a historical marker than a historical erasure. “All…
