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Supermarket rooftop salad garden in Berlin
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/11/supermarket-salad-rooftop-garden-berlin
Integrating agriculture into European urban landscapes matters: A systematic assessment
“Urban agriculture can supply 28% of the vegetable demand for 190M European residents.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670726003094
City scale study: A large share of Berlin’s vegetable consumption can be produced within the city
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210670722006679
97% Food waste recycling in South Korea, NYC following their model
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260916-new-york-has-a-food-waste-problem-south-korea-has-already-solved-it
If you hit a paywall, try https://archive.ph/rmuNs
Living sea walls – mariculture can be very productive
https://www.bostonharbornow.org/stone-living-lab-living-seawalls-panels-installed-first-in-north-america/
https://stonelivinglab.org/news-article/living-seawalls-one-year-update/
hat tip WCVB Chronicle 9/18/26
“French agrivoltaic trials cut water loss, lift maize yields by 19.6%”
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/18/french-agrivoltaic-trials-cut-water-loss-lift-maize-yields-by-19-6/
Conscious Food Systems Alliance
https://consciousfoodsystems.org/
September 2026 summit
https://consciousfoodsystems.org/bhutan-summit-2026/
China’s agricultural drones
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/09/20/china-agricultural-drones-30-times-us/
Native plants below solar panels can increase insect and especially native bee populations and benefit local agriculture
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minnesota-solar-farms-turned-the-ground-beneath-their-panels-into-habitat-and-native-bee-abundance-rose-more-than-20-fold/36680/
Editorial Comment: this is not agrivoltaics but a solar farm where there are no harvestable crops planted below the solar panels
hat tip to Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social
Solar farms reducing dust pollution in China – again not agrivoltaics but environmental cobenefits nonetheless
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-solar-farms-generate-energy-pollution.html
hat tip @robertferry.bsky.social
Farmers and Climate Change: Agricultural Adaptation in an Age of Rural Polarization by Margiana Petersen-Rockney
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS ISBN-10: 0300282257; ISBN-13: 978-0300282252)
Editorial Comment: Seems like a timely book
NYC’s Lower East Side gardens
https://gardendistrictnyc.greenmap.org/
hat tip Wendy Brawer who has been doing Green Maps for decades now
Editorial Comment: I remember the beginnings of the urban gardening movement in NYC and Boston back in the 1970s. For me, it was a direct outgrowth of the antiwar movement, as were food and other consumer coops.
Rose-colored solar panels for agrivoltaics – “pink houses” go solar as vegetal photosynthesis doesn’t use red light
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/prspeak-worldwide_what-if-a-farm-could-produce-vegetables-and-activity-7512937499065823233-LgRb
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