An allotment (British term), or in North America, a community garden, is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing edible plants. Community gardens became popular in the United States during World War I and II, and were then...
BLM: Our Commitment To Change
The recent events in our country have exposed the ongoing injustices that our country’s black population continues to endure. We stand with protestors against police brutality and in recognition of those who have been murdered by the police. We also realize that a...
How COVID-19 Is Changing The Way We Eat
Urban Agriculture and the Benefits of Growing Your Own Food If the Coronavirus has taught us anything, it may be that as a society we are grossly under-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. In the US at least, Government policy and subsidies have for...
Social Distancing and It’s Impact on our Planet
The global pandemic that has recently turned our world upside down, has had a profound effect on our economy, our mental health, our lives and...perhaps the environment. While the coronavirus is clearly not something to celebrate, there is a curious and perhaps...
5 Gardening Projects Made From Recycled Household Items
Did you know that the average American products 1704 pounds of garbage per year? Sad, but true. In an effort to keep more of our trash out of landfill, we've come up with 5 Eco-Friendly Gardening Projects that use recycled household items. #reduce #re-use and...
Soil vs Hydroponic Gardening – Pros and Cons
Things are about to get a little bit dirty here at Urban Leaf, and we wanted to explain why...We’re Going To Be Launching A Range Of Soil-Based Indoor Gardening Kits As some of you will recall, Urban Leaf launched in 2017 via a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter...
Urban Leaf x Farm.One: Announcing our new collaboration with NYC’s most innovative vertical farm
Urban Leaf is excited to announce our new collaboration with Farm.One, a vertical farming company that grows hundreds of specialty crops right here in New York City. Using hydroponics and LED lighting, Farm.One grows hard-to-find produce such as purple basil and...
Earth Day 2018 Special: Part 4 – Packaging
We believe in making sustainability decisions that last longer than we do, which is why the subject of packaging - something that has a useful life of days, but can last hundreds or even thousands of years afterwards, is an important topic to highlight. Plastic...
Earth Day 2018 Special: Part 3 – Food & Waste
Let’s face it; we all waste food. But hopefully it’s something we don’t do too casually or without thought. There are a lot of repercussions when food is not fully utilized, in addition to, as our president likes to say, being “just sad.” Food waste is one of the...
Earth Day 2018 Special: Part 2 – Food & Resources
Did you ever do that experiment in school where you sprout a seed in a petri dish and watch it grow? Your fourth grade teacher probably used it to teach you about what plants need to stay alive. Turns out when you take that concept and scale it up to a scale that...