Urban Farming

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Urban Ag Activists Up In Arms About New Study

Researchers looked at the carbon footprint of urban farming versus conventional, and the results were surprising.

March 5, 2024 - Business Insider

View of field of produce and hoop house on urban farm, with a line of multistory buildings in the background.

New Tax Credit for Urban Farming in Missouri

Urban farmers in Missouri can receive up to $5,000 in tax credits to establish or expand their operations.

December 31, 2023 - St. Louis Public Radio

Roadside city limit sign for Santa Clara, California.

‘Agrihood:’ An Urban Farm With Affordable Housing

California’s largest urban farm also provides 165 units of affordable housing for seniors and veterans.

September 25, 2023 - ABC 7 News

Chicken Run

Ordinance Would Limit Chickens, Livestock in Chicago Residential Neighborhoods

Noise and smeall are the common complaints as more residents of urban areas bring animals to their home to live more sustainably.

October 16, 2019 - Chicago Tribune

Shipping Container Housing

Shipping Container Farms Growing in the U.S.

Hydroponic farming company Square Roots will expand thanks to a partnership with Gordon Foods.

March 12, 2019 - Curbed

Philadelphia Urban Farm

Minnesota Grants May Bolster Urban Farming's Legitimacy

For the first time, the state of Minnesota is offering money specifically for urban agriculture, in a win for urban farmers who want to challenge the notion that agriculture is necessarily a rural enterprise.

October 10, 2018 - MinnPost

Big Tex Urban Farms Hydroponic Tank

A Thriving Dallas Farm Feeds and Educates Year Round

A hydroponic farm on the grounds of the Texas State Fair helps residents in the food deserts of South Dallas.

September 24, 2018 - The Dallas Morning News

Chicago Community Garden

Chicago Zoning Standing in the Way of Some Urban Gardens

It can be easier for Chicago's urban gardeners to grow produce than to sell it.

May 16, 2018 - Southside Weekly

Battery Urban Farm

Long Beach Urban Farming Initiative Targets Vacant Lots

A California policy lets cities offer tax incentives to landowners who put vacant lots to use as urban farms or gardens. Long Beach is the latest comer, but the uptake has been sluggish elsewhere.

December 16, 2017 - Next City

Detroit Streetcar

Detroit's Rebirth: Beyond the Headlines

John Gallagher takes a look at some of the civic factors and organizations that have worked behind the scenes to pull Detroit through.

November 26, 2017 - Detroit Free Press

Bhaji Bazaar

'Community Supported Kitchen' Idea Seeking Support in Portland

A crowdfunding campaign recently launched to support a new kind of commissary kitchen in Portland.

November 23, 2017 - The Oregonian

Pittsburgh to Gain a 23-Acre, $10 Million Urban Farm

The Hilltop Urban Farm project is moving along in Pittsburgh. Few, if any, community gardens have been built on this scale before.

August 29, 2017 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Battery Urban Farm

New York Could Launch an Urban Agriculture Plan, Zoning Overhaul

New York's ability to feed itself with locally grown urban agriculture is only being partially realized. Better planning, specific to urban agriculture, would help.

July 23, 2017 - The Wall Street Journal

Swale

A Floating Food Forest In New York City

New York's 'barge-to-table' floating farm gives city residents without access to farmland the opportunity to pick their own food.

July 4, 2017 - Modern Cities

Tomatoes

A New Urban Garden to Feed Dallas' Homeless

A new state-of-the-art urban garden is for the 400 daily residents of a Dallas homeless shelter to maintain and enjoy.

June 26, 2017 - The Dallas Morning News

Chicken Run

Legalizing Chickens in St. Louis

If passed, St. Louis's new zoning regulations will allow residents of St. Louis to keep up to eight rabbits or chickens, among other animals.

June 20, 2017 - Next City

Chicago Argriculture

Only High Cost Premiums Can Make Urban Farming Pencil Out

Throwing cold water on the latest "techno-optimism" for indoor, urban agriculture.

June 1, 2017 - City Observatory

Glenwood Green Acres, Philadelphia

The Future of Farming is Millennials

An aging population of farmers may give way to a generation of young entrepreneurs who see the value and values of growing food.

April 14, 2017 - Fortune

North view

Is This a Way Forward for Urban Farming?

Pulling in community members and a network of local nonprofits, Phoenix's "Spaces of Opportunity" is an attempt to make urban farming something more than a catchphrase.

February 7, 2017 - The Architect's Newspaper

North view

Guidebook: Lowering Barriers to Urban Farming

Urban agriculture has long been a staple of sustainable urbanism—in theory. Can policy changes help it become much more than that? This guidebook offers tactics and policies that planners can use to promote urban farms.

November 15, 2015 - APA-FIG

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