
Located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, Jones Valley Urban Farm offers fresh vegetables and health education to an area known for its food deserts.

Dekalb Market will be a sustainable, community hub for art, food, farming, and small business. Submit your pitches for stalls now and win free rent.

Will urban agriculture become a major part of the food system in San Francisco?

Plans for urban farms in Detroit get a lot press. But the author argues that they aren't going to come close to fixing the city's food desert.

Want to grow your own food but don't have a plot of land? The Windowfarms Project makes kits for modular, hydroponic "farms" that hang in your window.

A new ordinance will allow urban farmers to sell the food they grow.
In his new book, the Columbia University professor argues that "vertical farms" can efficiently feed the cities of the future. Is it wishful thinking?

Disaster tourists have long been flocking to Detroit's decayed infrastructure in search of ruin porn. Is all this attention a good thing?

A month ago, we encouraged our readers to vote for the winner of Nau's annual Grant for Change. Out of 124 nominees who proposed projects that...
The following is an excerpt from a piece by Sena Christian from the Earth Island Journal's Spring 2010 issue. City farms are sprouting in all...
When we were still in Seattle, preparing for this project, a few friends asked if this was a tour of "yuppie urban farm projects." Isn't that...
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake left many of San Francisco's urban freeways structurally unsound. (Back then, there were many, carving up the...
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Spending an extended period of time around dirt, explains artist/activist/architect Fritz Haeg, is a deviant act. “In our society we are not...
Why rabbit is the most sustainable meat for the city farmer. (Plus: How to cook it, and how to raise your own.) By now we...
It’s hard to believe but, yes, spring is on its way. And with it all kinds of wonderful green things like arugula, celery, and cherry tomatoes....
Why aquaponics may be the future of urban farming, and one solution to our local food problem. The majority of Americans live in urban environs....
My parents were back-to-the-land hippies; they were of that generation in the late 1960s that decided to reject cities and move to the country. I...