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The neighborhood already encompasses various urban farms, parks and gardens, including Frogtown Farm, one of the largest urban farms in the country. And later this month, residents will host the Green Gathering, which has become an annual event to network and share information on gardening and ...
Rendering for Los Angeles Unified School District in analyzing the potential redevelopment of the Christensen Science Center for use as a new Magnet Middle School. It would serve approximately 500 students in grades 6th through 9th, with a 21st-Century Port/Marine Technology-focused STEAM ...

More and more Oaklanders want to grow their own food, but many lack adequate access to gardening supplies and information. To fill this gap, Fruitvale's Pollinate Farm & Garden Supply offers residents a place to learn more about setting up their own urban homesteads. Pollinate has a demonstration ...
Infarm founders Osnat Michaeli and the brothers Erez and Guy Galonska have big ambitions for their urban farm model. German urban farming group Infarm aims to expand its network of urban farms to 1,000 locations throughout Europe by 2019. Infarm was founded in 2013 by Osnat Michaeli and the ...
The West Sacramento Urban Farm Program provides land, tools, infrastructure and a mentorship to small scale farmers looking to get started in an urban ... These Urban Farms work with over 600 volunteers per year, grow over 25,000 of pounds of produce per month during peak seasons, donate to food ...
Big Tex Urban Farms is the backbone of a budding southern Dallas food system. Community buy-in is important, and Green is seeing many students who grew up in La Bajada go off to college, get jobs, and return to the neighborhood. “Instead of leaving, they are coming back,” she says. “They think, 'If I ...

The county has proposed separating urban agriculture ventures into two distinct categories: urban farms and community gardens. Under the new regulations, both ventures would be “permitted by-right” in nearly all zones, meaning groups interested in establishing either a community garden or urban farm ...
The urban farms sprouting up and across cities around the world aren't just feeding mouths—they are "critical to survival" and a "necessary adaptation" for developing regions and a changing climate, according to a new study. Urban farms—which include plain ol' allotments, indoor vertical farms and rooftop ...
When residents of prestigious apartment buildings and upscale communities tire of their sophisticated amenities (wine bars, concierges, Olympic-sized pools), they will turn to the simple pleasures of the land. That, at least, is the thinking of residential developers around the world – and one they are banking ...
Two Phoenicians want to transform part of a well-known park into an urban farm. They say people will be able to learn about architecture and even taste what's growing. Against a backdrop of Camelback Mountain, Los Olivos is a popular park. People can play disc golf or soccer. But it may also soon be ...
Shalom Farms has begun work on a new urban farm off Westwood Avenue in Richmond's North Side. The five-acre tract is on property belonging to Union Seminary, according to Shalom Farms. “Like our Powhatan site, the Westwood site will produce hundreds of thousands of servings of fruits and ...
As a result of this partnership, Colony Urban Farm stocks a wide variety of fresh, refrigerated, frozen and packaged food, so that about half of the store is a small market and another area is devoted to urban farming equipment, including chicken coops and beekeeping equipment. The new space also ...
Urban farm flourishes in former Akron tire plant. Vigeo Gardens is growing produce and success inside the BOUNCE ... That magenta glow coming from the third floor of @AccelerateAkron is an urban farm that is flourishing inside the innovation hub. Take a look inside of @VIGEOGARDENS tonight at 11 on ...
Families are invited to honor the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with volunteer service from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15, at The Cannery urban farm in Davis. This is the second year of an event there tying together land, love and justice, says farm coordinator Nicodemus Ford. “We will be holding ...
Instead, the company is looking for something else to round out the North 40 project. “This idea of bungalows in a farm setting seemed perfect,” he said. “Obviously, not everybody agrees with me.” Income from the farm stays would support the higher level of maintenance required for an urban farm, Calkins ...
Alyssa Pointer/TNS Moah's Ark urban farm owner Mo Cahill shows off the eggs her chickens have laid at her house in the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago, Ill. Cahill keeps a few dozen eggs in her front foyer. Neighbors are welcome to buy a carton for $5. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune/TNS).
Chuck Meadows, former executive director of the Atlanta Beltline Partnership, is launching his own farm and restaurant that will honor his great, great uncle, who was an accomplished Georgia farmer. Meadows is opening Jim Adams Farm & Table in Bolton Village, a development in Atlanta's emerging ...

As more people move to cities, urban farms now produce a fifth of the globe's food. In the United States, urban farms are blossoming in ...
In food circles, Northeast Portland's Cully neighborhood might be best known for two things: it's patchwork of urban farms, and the unlikely ...
There could be more urban farms, rooftop gardens and solar panels sprouting up across Singapore, as city planners redouble efforts to make ...
Innovations from Cleveland's urban farms are taking root around the .... Kearns says refugees are the perfect employees for an urban farm.
Urban farms and communal rooftop food gardens might soon be a more common sight in Singapore, with the enhancement of an urban ...
One in five American children suffer from “food insecurity,” meaning an individual does not have reliable access to food. Cities across the ...
I co-founded GrowUp Urban Farms with my business partner Kate Hofman in May 2013. Our vision is to contribute to a more sustainable food ...
Architect Vincent Callebaut recently unveiled plans to rebuild war-torn Mosul as a sustainable, self-sufficient city. Callebaut's proposal includes ...
Englewood garage space gathered for urban farm concept ... “The idea is to provide a place to grow food in an urban farm year-round, and then ...
Fayetteville officials hope to find a qualified applicant to operate a working urban farm near the historic Woolsey farmstead. A request for ...
EAST HARLEM, NY — The New York City Housing Authority will bring two urban farms to public housing developments in 2017, continuing a ...
An urban farm stand is providing fresh produce to Brooklyn residents, but it's also giving them an opportunity to gain work experience.
Just off the banks of the parched Santa Cruz River in Tucson, Arizona, gardeners at Las Milpitas de Cottonwood Community Farm are ...
California is home to 5.4 million food insecure people, meaning millions of Californians have uncertain access to food. Of those 5.4 million, 2.3 ...
CITY HALL -- An urban farm is coming to one of two Staten Island public housing developments, officials announced on Thursday. The farm will ...
Big Tex Urban Farms is growing the State Fair of Texas tradition. The mobile farm grows thousands of produce on the concrete parking lot of ...
For instance, Truly Living Well is an urban farm with sites in the West End, East Point and Southwest Atlanta. The nonprofit grows more than ...
... a vegan and a meat smoker all walk onto an urban farm. ... It's the lineup for the cooking contest Sprout Urban Farms is hosting Saturday in ...
When you think of a farmer, does an old, white man on a John Deere tractor come to mind? The image of farming in the United States has been ...
AMARILLO - An urban farm in Amarillo is continuing to grow to help the San Jacinto community. For the last several months, Square Mile ...
being home to the largest urban farm in the county fits tidily into the city's role as a nationwide leader in sustainability, environmental ...
The Hilltop Urban Farm embodies a trend in cities across America's Rust ... A common concern with urban farms is their reliance on grants that ...
Storey said the Woodlawn High School Urban Farm is one of JVTF's ... to Atlanta, where they visited other urban farms, the Center for Civil and ...
A 23-acre urban farm project named the Hilltop Urban Farm is set to ... Urban farms and farming projects are of course nothing new — they can ...
Before you commit your life and paycheck to Whole Foods, we wanted to take the time to highlight Black-owned urban farms who have been in ...
Avery Neilson, left, and College Hill student Logan Barnett pick corn at the farm stand on Friday morning. Students in the Urban Farm program ...
Nation's Largest Urban Farm Planned for Pittsburgh ... Pittsburgh's St. Clair neighborhood is being transformed into a massive urban farm.
... stages of becoming one of the largest urban farms in the country. ... The preparation of the soil at the Hilltop Urban Farm has begun, and an ...
The Urban Farm is excited to announce the 18th annual Urban Farm Fruit Tree Education Program in the Valley of the Sun. The Urban Farm ...
A new urban farm has sprouted on the east side in a most unlikely setting. Surrounded by industry, the 7-acre farm is in The Finish Line's ...
“First ribbon-cutting for a farm in probably 100 years in the City of Pittsburgh,” quipped Mayor Bill Peduto at the future site of Hilltop Urban Farm, ...
“First ribbon-cutting for a farm in probably 100 years in the City of Pittsburgh,” quipped Mayor Bill Peduto at the future site of Hilltop Urban Farm, ...
Urban farms are not to be located in a required interior side yard. Outdoor growing associated with an urban farm shall be exempt from the ...


 

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