Derek Vincent is an urban homesteader, harvesting a diverse selection of nano crops on a rooftop and two balconies in the heart of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood. His mission is to show city dwellers around the world that they can joyfully grow and harvest their own food in even the tightest urban spaces. We sat down with Derek to find out about his gardening projects.
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Living on the Gold Coast is a charmed life for gardener Kim Howell, but it's another love that keeps Kim busy these days. Creating culinary classics!
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Jumble and Stack is lead by Kim Burns, a hospitality expert who loves the challenge of creating high-use and atmospheric spaces that draw a crowd. After gaining years of experience at architectural firms in Europe, Asia and along the Queensland Coast, she now freelances in Brisbane, specialising in commercial and residential design. Plants play an important role in a lot of Kim's commercial projects as they create a sense of homeliness and add a layer of softness that can’t be replicated by any other object or material.
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Colorado native Kay Bathke has been in the electrical engineering game for decades but a few years back got into volunteering at her local Foothills Animal Shelter. She has been deploying Glowpears to grow produce for a range of purposes at the shelter, so we asked her all about what she does there.
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Western Australia based Brady Skevington has always loved the outdoors. He runs a medium sized Perth based landscaping firm, Boutique Timeless Landscaping (BTL), offering medium to high end landscaping solutions all over the city. Brady has been lucky to work on some pretty incredible homes over the years, and he is passionate about greening the city. "Urban gardening is as incredible industry to attack head on," he says. "Every day we are surrounded by concrete, bitumen and paving - how we shade, brighten and green up those spaces is a challenge that we thrive on."
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Ashley Joyce is the owner of Bend Urban Gardens, a foodscaping business in that helps empower aspiring vegetable gardeners in Bend, Central Oregon. Ashley offers on-site consultations, builds raised garden beds and season extenders, creates personalized crop plans, teaches garden lessons, and grows their own plant starts.
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For Geelong local Ash Burke, the feeling of accomplishment from growing his own food and providing for his family sparked a complete change in lifestyle and priorities. What started as a couple of hours here and there outside to try and escape the stressful life as a paramedic, has turned into producing a reliable source of food for his family. Ash is now a cult gardener online too!
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Industrial designer Charles Skender grew up with a strong family dynamic and large backyards full of all kinds of produce - citrus, nuts, herbs, greens, veggies, you name it. Here started Charles' journey to grow food, and his new brand, AMPLE. We caught up recently with Charles to talk about AMPLE.
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Andrew Wallace's connection to the environment stems from his earliest memories spending holidays at his uncle's deer farm. Here they had an extensive garden, which was Andrew's first experience of a sustainable ecosystem. Waste from the farm would help cultivate the gardens with resultant produce grown to eat over dinner, a truly cyclical system.
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Neroli Henderson is an internationally award winning artist who uses fabric, stitch, photography, paint and other mixed media to create art quilts, and Muppety Muffinson her five year old Bichon Frisé. Both love gardening in the clouds!
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