Urban Agriculture News

Concerns grow over Fort Lauderdale plans

2012-06-30T23:03:00.002-07:00

Concerns crop up as Fort Lauderdale plans urban farming ordinance

The City Commission is set to vote July 10 on an urban agriculture ordinance allowing urban farms and community gardens in the city. Some advocates of urban farming say the city's plan won't work. It also concerns residents who don't want to see a ...

Masirewa all for Urban Agriculture

URBAN agriculture could be an ideal solution to addressing food sustainability issues for urban households. Nausori Town Council special administrator Napolioni ...

A Moveable Feast - Urban Farm Online
ou don’t have to wake up early on Saturday mornings to buy locally grown foods. Creative farmers have found a way to bring their produce to you....

Community Gardens Help Ethiopia's Urban Poor Grow

Since 2008 in Ethiopia, the Urban Gardens Program has strived to improve the general health and incomes of women, orphans and vulnerable children ...

Mill City Farmers Market: A Love Story
One of my very favorite things is the Mill City Farmer’s Market in downtown Minneapolis. Tucked behind the Mill Ruins along the Mississippi River, Mill City ...

Future of Food Production

2012-06-17T18:12:00.004-07:00

Enthusiasm for urban agriculture is growing in Montreal

It seems Montrealers want some soil of their own, and maybe the odd chicken ...

Parks Commission to Take on Urban Farming Goals in Albany
Albany's Parks & Recreation Commission will discuss to the future of urban farming in in Albany, including the Gill Tract ...

The Future of Food Production
Adam Shaw and Saima Moshin, journalists with the Horizons program on BBC World News, produced a documentary that examines innovative solutions for feeding an urban population ...

MSU opens Urban-Agriculture Research Center
While traditionally a mecca in the worldwide automotive industry, the city of Detroit, may be adding another facet to its fundamental structure: global recognition as an important city in the field of urban-agriculture research ...

Urban farm raising greens, jobs
Farming in the city doesn't need a lot of land — and sometimes not even arable land. On a South Baltimore parking lot, inside six plastic-covered greenhouses, a handful of urban farmers are raising a cornucopia of greens in a thin layer of imported soil ...

Urban Agriculture Takes Root with ZinCo's New 'Urban Rooftop ...

ZinCo USA, a recognized leader in extensive and intensive green roof products, announced the release of a new green roof ...

Urban Orchards

2012-05-17T17:46:00.000-07:00

Urban Agriculture Coming of Age

When the Institute of Urban Homesteading was started in 2008, urban agriculture was a marginal activity practiced by a handful of intrepid individuals. Now ...

Mapping Urban Farming

A Geographical Information System (GIS) is being used to map vegetable production in the greater Bangkok region, analyzing how urban urban agriculture contributes to food security in the city ...

Farmers want Understanding of City Folk

City folk just do not understand farmers. So says the National Farmers' Federation's (NFF) Blueprint for Australian Agriculture ...

Urban OrchardResidents of the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle came up with a plan to transform an unused tract of land into an urban food forest.
Despite robust community support, ...

'Edible Gardening Initiative' Wins Support

Planning commission unanimously passes draft proposal to allow sales of home-grown produce; initiative now goes to city council ...

Urban Farm Plan for Detroit's Near East Side Hopes to Reel in Cash — TILAPIA

Where most people would look at these wide expanses of Detroit blight and see dark despair, Gary Wozniak sees nothing but gleaming possibilities.

Detroit et al

2012-04-20T12:41:00.002-07:00

Grant gives $1M boost to group's plans for urban agriculture
A group that wants to incorporate urban agriculture, fish farming, new businesses and housing in a Detroit redevelopment effort is getting a $1 million boost. The RecoveryPark project announced Thursday that it was getting the grant from ...

Brooklyn getting 100000-square foot rooftop farm
The future is looking bright for a rooftop farm in Brooklyn. The borough is in line to become the home to a project that will grow a million pounds of produce a year.

Santiago City revitalizes production of native hogs, fowls
Amid the rampant importation of frozen meat that keeps local hogs and poultry raisers crying foul, the Santiago City government maintains its strong advocacy on backyard production of native hogs and fowls.

Montreal's Urban Seedling offers all-inclusive vegetable gardening service
Tereska Gesing and Shawn Manning’s teeny-tiny Verdun backyard, there’s an urban gardening revolution afoot. Since early spring, the founders of Urban Seedling have been seeding.

City Refocuses Its Vision on Urban Farms
The words hit with the force of a hoe bashed upside his head. After all the work his soil-stained hands had done to transform a derelict city lot into a bountiful urban farm.