Ground-Based Uncontrolled
One example of ground-based uncontrolled urban agriculture
What is a Community Garden?
What is Sqaure food garden?
One example of ground-based controlled urban agriculture
What is a Greenhouse?
What is Aquaponics?
One example of Building-Integrated Uncontrolled urban agriculture
What is a Rooftop Farm?
What is a container garden?
A method of growing plants without soil---using water, nutrients, and light
What is Hydroponics?
Main regulatory and economic issues of Urban Agriculture
-zoning, city plans, and building codes
-higher rent rates
-taxation
A social benefit of ground-based uncontrolled urban agriculture
What is community bonding?
What is higher wellbeing?
Fish waste is used for..
What is organic fertilizer
Contamination risks that are avoided
Main components of a vertical farm
What is a power source, water source, light source, nutrient source, climate control, monitoring technology, and harvesting technology?
Socio-cultural Benefits of Urban Agriculture
What is community engagement, health, wellbeing, and education?
An environmental benefit of ground-based uncontrolled urban agriculture
What is more efficient water use?
What is high productivity in small areas?
Closed systems can cause
What is rapid spread of disease?
What is the heat island effect?
A biologically active chemical compound in plants that works to protect plants and the humans who eat them from viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
What are Phytochemicals?
The three highest rated challenges of Urban Farming
What are Profitability, financing, and production costs?
Difficulty of ground-based uncontrolled urban agriculture
What is air pollution from emissions?
What is waterlogging from poor drainage?
What are issues from contaminated soils?
Plants grow 30-50% faster due to optimized nutrients and controlled climate--leading to..
What are higher yields and less food waste?
Drawbacks of such an uncontrolled environment
What is pest and disease spread?
What is extreme weather damage?
What are water access and drainage issues?
-intercropping
-salinity and water stress
-LED tech
-temperature augmentation
What are strategies to improve the bioactive content in plant foods?
Closed-loop model of material reuse- increasing sustainability.
In other cases, a collaborative economic practice sustained by shared and reused materials, nutrients, knowledge, and money, driven by transparency, diversity, and inclusion.
What is a Circular Economy?
Technique that involves planting two or more crops in succession to enjoy multiple harvests from a single patch of ground.
What is a symbiotic cycle?
Covertly cultivating plants in abandoned or neglected urban spaces without formal permission.
What is Stealth or Guerrilla gardening?
Positive Environmental Impacts of
What is biodiversity improvement, lower transportation emissions, and less land development?
Twin goals of urban agriculture
What is equitably increasing access to food, at a lower environmental cost?