Urban Gardening: Grow Your Green Oasis in the City

Transforming concrete jungles into vibrant green spaces is easier than you think! Our urban gardening archive explores everything from small-scale container gardening to ambitious rooftop farms. Learn about sustainable practices, discover inspiring projects, and find practical advice to help you cultivate your own urban oasis. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a complete beginner, you’ll find plenty of resources to get started and grow your own food, no matter how limited your space. Browse our collection of articles and let’s cultivate a greener city together!

Urban Farming: Roof-Top Garden in Berlin

The urban farming project Himmelbeet (sky patch) is currently planning an extensive roof-top garden over Berlin! On the top of a former multi-storey car park in Berlin-Wedding, the nonprofit project is going to open an open gardening zone as from May 2013… In addition to the crops a beekeeper will supervise beehives. Workshops, cultural events and a coffee shop will revive the environment. We take a stand for maintaining of regional varieties, and want to grow organically and by the principles of permaculture. Gardening will take place in mobile raised beds. In addition to the community garden space, it will be possible to lease an own bed for a season. (loosely translated) ...

Urban Micro Gardens, Hidden Shops, Amazing Murals & Awesome Tape Art

It’s been a long time, since the last Urban Art Link-Tips literary came into the world… the latest are from back in December 2011. Nevertheless, I really like the idea of giving a short overview about things that happened during the last weeks and didn’t made it into the Urban Art Core stream! Here we go… - **Ever**, one of the best young muralists in South America, just posted that pretty [video of his recent trip to Mexico](http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/07/video-ever-in-mexico/). - [Urban artist **Vinz**](/usual-misdeeds-vinz-austria/) recently created this very nice [*Don’t Be Afraid*](http://urbanshit.de/?p=8934) mural in his home-town Valencia... …and also my French friend Shaka put up a new mural in Melun, France! ...

Urban Gardening: Pop-Up Park Chicago

I’m pretty sure, some of you already heard about the international Park(ing) Day, right?! The idea behind this interventional project is the create temporary parks throughout the cities around the world, but of course you can build those parks whenever you like… …like Joe Baldwin together with the Altgeld Sawyer Corner Farm did in Chicago back in 2011. For a few hours, he turned nearly an entire Logan Square street block into a 280 square meters urban park: ...