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vertical garden / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Landscaping

Hydroponic bottle gardener launches kickstarter campaign

...vertical hydroponic system. It's easy to operate, takes up less than 1 square foot of space, costs 3¢ a week in electricity and grows greens, herbs and vegetables indoors year-round. Furthermore, it's handmade in Canada using natural, biodegradable and recycled materials. Jesse Herbert’s experience in environmental te...

Food production

Growing food indoors

...vertical garden using blue bottles (as they are harder to find used) may also be on the horizon. Wine lovers may also choose to have their system customized with the empty bottles from their most memorable tastings. Vertical window garden © biocity Now you know about the growing food indoors. Find more...

Healthy indoor air quality

Living walls: what they do and don't do

...vertical garden) is not a cheap feature to add to a home, but it can have a positive function. We live increasingly busy and stressful lives in a sterile environment that is heavily laden with pinging devices; that disconnect from nature can negatively affect your mental and physical well-being. There have been links d...

Wind power

The Zoetrope: DIY vertical wind turbine design

...vertical-axis wind turbine made from common materials. Many of the materials can be found at your local hardware store and the rest can purchased online or made at home, for the truly industrious amongst us. The Zoetrope was conceived when renewable energy advocate, Mike Marohn commissioned Applied Sciences to design ...

Food production

Lasagna gardening: the pros & cons of a lasagna garden

...gardening trick may be viewed as ‘being lazy’ by someone else. If you’re of the opinion that easy is better as far as gardening is concerned – then a lasagna garden may be the perfect fit for you. A Lasagna Garden is an easy way to convert a lawn into food producing garden Lasagne gardening also saves waste, as it ma...

Landscaping

How to make a keyhole raised garden, a DIY guide

...garden throughout the growing season. Mix a keyhole garden with vegetables that grow in the shade, and you've a winning combination for urban gardens! DIY how to build a keyhole raised garden Here is an easy step by step guide to growing food in a keyhole raised garden bed: 1.) Site: Once you have chosen an area larg...

Landscaping

Urban farming turns beautiful gardens into a grocery store!

...gardener would love a sunny backyard or even better some acreage to grow edibles, but that isn't always the case. Some of the more limited spaces would be apartment balconies, but if they are at all facing south you'd be surprised at the yield you can get with a little ingenuity. Repurposed eavestrough in a vertical g...

Food production

Grow food at home: 8 great tips for growing food in small spaces

...vertical gardening are vast and require only some creativity - making productive space out of lost space is the key to maximum productivity in the small urban garden. Lettuce planted on vertical trays, what a great way to brighten up an ugly outside wall in an urban yard Which edibles lend themselves to vertical gard...

Greenhouses and Sunrooms / Solariums

How to build a greenhouse in a cold climate

...gardeners guide to growing vegetables in the shade Growing food in small spaces - apartment and balcony gardens How your diet impacts climate change - which foods have less impact And sign up here for a free Ecohome Membership and reap all the benefits!

Greenhouses and Sunrooms / Solariums

Solariums in cold climates won't heat your home

...vertical glazing surface, creating the sensation of a rather annoying cold breeze.” (read about designing for thermal comfort) In addition, he mentioned the cold windows would draw all the heat radiating from the room (and its occupants) and often make the room quite uncomfortable, not to mention that the solarium cont...

Recycling and composting

Waste management: compost and recycling

...Garden composters are a great way to recycle kitchen waste into next years tasty tomato and zucchini crops Some leaves can be added to vegetable compost, but larger quantities can be composted in a pile of their own. As with vegetable compost, occasionally turning leaves over with a garden fork speeds up the decomposi...