Urban Agriculture

Whether through community gardening or high-tech "vertical farms" interest is growing in urban agriculture.

Urban gardening is spreading to Mexico City, resurrecting an ancient history of growing produce in the city.

In industrial West Oakland, backyard farming is flourishing, with more than 80 farms sprouting up with organic produce and a local bent.

Katie and Sabrina Lewis of Clayton, CA have inadvertently gotten tied up in a political mess of zoning and commercial uses by selling produce from their family garden at a stand in front of their house.

Cal Poly students, working with nonprofit Urban Farming, are creating 'edible walls' for low-income residents in L.A.

Dickson Despommier, a professor at Columbia, says that global climate change will require us to reconsider growing food indoors, and proposes that farming go vertical.

Thanks to industrialized agriculture, there’s a wide gulf between those who produce food and those who consume it. Too many city-dwellers lack access to nutritious, non-processed foods. Dave Steel thinks that urban agriculture is the key.