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Culture
Nonprofit Spotlight: Farming in the Heart of a City
Located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, Jones Valley Urban Farm offers fresh vegetables and health education to an area known for its food deserts.
Business
Help Design Brooklyn's New Public Market
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.
Lifestyle
Can City Farmers Make a Living? Activist Eli Zigas on the Challenges of Urban Agriculture
Will urban agriculture become a major part of the food system in San Francisco?
Lifestyle
Forget Urban Farms. We Need a Wal-Mart
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.
Cities
Windowfarms Let Urban Apartment Dwellers Grow Their Own Food
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.
Lifestyle
Legalize Urban Produce, Says San Francisco Mayor
A new ordinance will allow urban farmers to sell the food they grow.
Cities
Can We Farm in Skyscrapers? Dickson Despommier's New Book Says Yes
In his new book, the Columbia University professor argues that "vertical farms" can efficiently feed the cities of the future. Is it wishful thinking?
Lifestyle
Video: In Detroit, Where Trance Meets Urban Farming
Disaster tourists have long been flocking to Detroit's decayed infrastructure in search of ruin porn. Is all this attention a good thing?
Design
Truck Farm Wins Nau's $10,000 Grant for Change
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...
Business
Can Urban Farms Translate Popularity into Profitability?
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...
Culture
Denver Busts Urban Farming’s Yuppie Stereotype
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...
Hayes Valley: A Former Freeway Turns into a Farm
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake left many of San Francisco's urban freeways structurally unsound. (Back then, there were many, carving up the...
Lifestyle
Post of the week: Feb. 27-Mar. 5, 2010
Bunny rabbits and some inappropriate laughter sparked discussion on this week's top post. Adam Starr's Backyard Bunnies Are the New Urban Chicken...
Design
Farming the Front Lawn
Spending an extended period of time around dirt, explains artist/activist/architect Fritz Haeg, is a deviant act. “In our society we are not...
Environment
Backyard Bunnies Are the New Urban Chickens
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...
Cities
How to Grow an Edible, Vertical Garden in Five Steps
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....
Environment
Making Urban Farming Scalable With Fish
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....
Lifestyle
Novella Carpenter, Urban Cowgirl
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...
