urban farming

Josh O'Conner is a Senior Editor for the Urban Times an online magazine. He's a planner by trade and an advocate for community-oriented urbanism. When he's off the clock, Josh STILL likes urban planning. But he also fills his time with small-scale agriculture, ecology, and sociology. He does all that with his wife and daughters in...[read more]

guerrilla garden

In every bio-region one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists, so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature.[read more]

urban farming

With the continuing onset of urbanization, urban poverty continues to grow and so does the importance of food security. The subsequent response to this has been the emergence of community gardening and locally produced foods.[read more]

urban farming and community

What started as an effort to bring public art and more green space to the community is now a thriving vegetable farm run by volunteers who donate all of their harvest, about 10-15 lbs per week, to local families in need.[read more]

aquaponics

 

Such systems, if properly managed, can produce very high yields relative to conventional farming – especially precious when land is limited. They must have a role in local production within cities, too.[read more]

urban agriculture

San Agustín, a parish in Caracas is known for open plots of land where the hillside is too steep for habitation. A group of activists has started building garden plots to help reduce the burden of an extremely high cost of living.[read more]

urban farming

Design Trust put together a metrics framework that measured the associated activities of urban agriculture with the known benefits derived from various studies to convince city officials of urban farming's positive impacts.[read more]

urban farming

A look at how the extensive lawn irrigation system in Phoenix could be used to grow vegetables instead of grass lawns and ultimately offer “a way for regular people to be able to feed themselves regularly.”[read more]

urban farming

The aptly-named Higher Ground Farm will open this spring on the roof of the Boston Design Center, taking up an amazing 55,000 square feet, or a little over an acre, on top of the Design Center’s renovated old warehouse, just across Boston Harbor from Logan Airport.[read more]

At the National Building Museum, a controversial set of two new photography exhibits asks us to consider whether a city can die, whether districts of ruined, abandoned buildings reverting back to nature can define a city that still has a population of 700,000 people. The answer is no: Detroit is still alive, but perhaps shamed by its...[read more]

As we start 2013, many people will be thinking about plans and promises to improve their diet and health. But we think a broader collection of farmers, policy-makers, and eaters need new, bigger resolutions for fixing the food system – real changes with long-term impacts in fields, boardrooms, and on plates all over the world.[read more]

A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.“To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.” – City of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger...[read more]