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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo. Two years ago, after a grueling search in Oahu’s tight real estate market, the cousins landed on a residential property in Kahaluu, on the island’s windward coast. Photography by author.

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Re-envisioning New York City’s Green Spaces With Qiana Mickie

Civil Eats

She came across an opening for pruning and weeding school gardens and other green spaces across New York City’s five boroughs. She points to food forests—diverse, edible gardens that mirror natural ecosystems, free to harvest—as an example of innovation in soil-based urban farming that she’d like to further explore.

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