This is the first of a series of posts by Alex describing his BOSP Summer Seminar experience. Look for the second post next week.    There’s always something burning in Arusha, Tanzania. Waste management is at best inconsistent—some might say nonexistent—so garbage burns in piles on the roadsides. Two-seater motorcycle [...]

After Zach Yohannes’ initial frenzied weeks of constructing and setting up Gro-Mart, accompanied by a series of problems that needed solving and were solved, a sort of routine has emerged. Zach is prototyping indoor, vertical agriculture in an old packing shed on his family’s farm, trying to determine what works [...]

Urban agriculture is hot.  You don’t have to look very hard to find an article or study or friend touting the many benefits of urban farming, from combating obesity to vanquishing food deserts, from reducing stormwater runoff to preventing crime. Rebecca Solnit in, “Revolutionary Plots” a recent article in Orion [...]

This time, we’re checking in on the recent day-by-day progress of Zach Yohannes’ Gro-Mart prototype.  Gro-Mart is a “ revolutionary sustainable food production model that produces a poly-culture of crops utilizing advanced soilless growing methods. It will consist of a system of multi-story buildings that serve as both the growing [...]

Early on the morning of June 18th  before the heat had set in, Zach Yohannes arrived at the old cold storage facility on his family’s farm near Visalia, California.  This large building once stored and refrigerated produce, but since the farm has moved its packing elsewhere and it has been [...]

The blog was featured in Eucalyptus Magazine’s  recent round up of Green Bloggers.  The article begins: The Internet is abuzz with bloggers of varying pursuits and passions, some aiming to create a written forum for connecting with others, others hoping to carve out a space for affecting change. Among those [...]