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Beyond Urban Agriculture
Choose your environment
Let’s look at what you can grow in your city:
Growing edible plants
With enough heat, light, and water, you can grow your own food plants. The seasonal conditions in your city define whether you have the natural environmental conditions to grow certain plants at different times of the year. Indoors, Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) allows us to create any environmental condition we need to optimize growth, however CEA may require additional electric lighting which should ideally be supplied or offset through renewable energy to avoid adding to the carbon footprint of the urban farm.
Harlem Grown
full shade
full sun
partial shade
low water use
medium water use
high water use
Light
Water
Temperature
Other factors
Plant Data
Climate Data
Growing Profiles sourced from USDA PLANTS Database and the European Commission Plants Database
Some plants require a lot of light, others less. We've mapped a plant's shade tolerance to each city's seasonal solar availability.
Some plants require a lot of water, others less. We've mapped a plant's drought tolerance to the seasonal precipitation in each city.
Each plant prefers a certain temperature range. We've mapped a plant's minimum growing temperatures to each city's seasonal temperature ranges.
There are many other factors what will impact growth:
Growing Method (soil based, aeroponic, or hydroponic), Growing Media Type, Available Nutrients (fertilizers), Relative Humidity, and CO2 availability to name a few.
Climate Data sourced from Climate-Data.org
drought tolerance
shade tolerance
minimum temperature
*C
Indoor Data
solar availability
seasonal rainfall
average temperatures
artificial lighting is a function of intensity and wavelength
mechanical systems regulate and control temperature
watering systems range from hydroponic to aeroponic methods
What factors determine growth?
While there are many factors that go into growing your own plants, the right environment is essential. How have we determined what you can grow in your city? We link plant growing conditions with climate data.
What can I grow: examples of edible plants
A few samples of palatable plants whose growing conditions match your environment.
Introduction
Indoor and Outdoor plant growths are greatly affected by several environmental factors such as light, water, temperature, humidity, and growing methods.
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