While many people think of rural landscapes as agricultural hubs, more and more people are realizing the benefits of growing food, flowers, and fiber in urban spaces. Urban cores and peri-urban spaces ...

Urban agriculture is emerging as a key player in the search to develop sustainable cities, offering not just fresh produce but a portfolio of ecosystem services that can extend far beyond the farm and ...

There’s a new movement cropping up in city governments across America. It’s apolitical enough that it can avoid the polarization that comes with other climate initiatives. And it’s easy to incorporate ...

On a busy corner in West Sacramento, surrounded by high-density housing and railroad tracks, sits a 1-half acre oasis of soil and green shoots. A group of young people tend to organized rows of ...

Urban agriculture is expected to be an important feature of 21st century sustainability and can have many benefits for communities and cities, including providing fresh produce in neighborhoods with ...

"Work hard, stay bumble" is their nonprofit motto. Run by Gotham Greens, which first launched greenhouses in New York (this is its fourth!), the massive farm sits atop a soap factory on Chicago’s ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) accounts for over one-tenth of the global population, approximately 800 million people, practicing urban agriculture worldwide. In the United States, ...

Imagine walking through your local grocery store where fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs grow right before your eyes in towering glass structures. This isn’t science fiction – it’s vertical farming, ...

One year after Philadelphia released its first plan for support urban gardening and farming, city officials emphasized the importance of urban agriculture and called for new investments during a City ...

TACKLE FOOD INSECURITY IN THE CITY. AS WEST LOUISVILLE CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF THE CITIES, FOOD DESERTS, THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE IS TAKING A NEW APPROACH TO ADDRESSING THE INJUSTICE THIS PROJECT ...

Urban farm day is a free, self-guided tour that features 18 urban farms. This is the fourth year that this event will take place thanks to hosts Gardens Buffalo Niagara. Urban Farm Day is a great way ...

LOWELL — Nestled in a corner of Pawtucketville, and accessed via a one-lane dirt path barely visible between towering pine trees, sits an urban oasis called the Big Urban Farm. The four-acre space — ...