Agriculture

Crop Prices Urge Farmers to Reconsider Golf Course

As crop prices rise, Iowa land formerly thought useless for farming is being tilled and planted.
4 January 2012 - 7:00am
The New York Times

Revive Farming, Revive Haiti

After the earthquake, Haiti's recovery has not been in rebuilding the center city, but through decentralization and the development of farming. But even this plan, reports Randal Archibald, is fraught with challenges.
26 December 2011 - 11:00am
The New York Times

Africa's Urban Harvest

Faced with climate change and poverty, Africans are focusing on a new farming frontier: the cities.
28 November 2011 - 2:00pm
OnEarth

Farm Chic is the Latest Trend in Housing Developments

In the '00s, housing built around golf courses was all the rage. Stephanie Simon reports that today's consumer wants to live next to an organic farm, vineyard or other micro-rural setting.
14 September 2011 - 2:00pm
The Wall St. Journal

Sprawl vs. Farms

Jonathan Lerner reports from Fresno, where sprawling development has clashed with agriculture, the region's bread and butter. A new regional plan hopes to preserve farmland and ease tensions.
11 September 2011 - 9:00am
Miller-McCune

Lake Erie Is Dying (Again)

Deadly algae and invasive species are choking the life out of Lake Erie. It recovered from near-death 40 years ago, but the regulations that helped save it last time are under increasing attack.
1 September 2011 - 11:00am
OnEarth

Which is Greener: Urban Farms or Urban Density?

Edward Glaeser adds "large-scale metropolitan farming" to a list -- which also includes historic preservation -- of barriers to densifying urban development patterns. His argument is that the latter is the greener of the two.
21 June 2011 - 2:00pm
Boston Globe

The Food System's Negative Impact on Communities

In this food-focused installment of a series on "great places", Grist's Tom Philpott argues that food system as currently structured creates the opposite of great places.
4 June 2011 - 9:00am
Grist

Dwindling Small Towns Fight Back

Census data shows that Lacrosse, WA (pop. 315) and other small, rural towns are getting smaller. Some blame the Conservation Reserve Program. But Lacrosse and many others aren't going quietly - they're fighting to hang on.
17 March 2011 - 12:00pm
The Spokesman-Review

Farming the Subdivision

Agricultural spaces are increasingly being included in housing developments.
10 February 2011 - 8:00am
Landscape Architecture Magazine

The 40 Tools You Need to Build Your Own Civilization

The Global Village Construction Set is a group of farmers and engineers who are developing an set of open-source designs for the forty tools one would need to create a self-sufficient life living off of the land.
7 February 2011 - 1:00pm
Fast Company

A Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan

A new project is seeking to create the first citywide, comprehensive urban agriculture plan for New York City.
24 January 2011 - 8:00am
Urban Omnibus

Widening Waistlines Weigh on Developing Cities

Cities across the developing world are dealing more with rising obesity rates as urbanization occurs, reports TheCityFix's Jonna McKone.
13 January 2011 - 7:00am
TheCityFix

Troubles Persist in California's Delta

The process of re-designing California's Delta to protect endangered species, feed the state's farms and serve freshwater to its residents has become further complicated.
15 December 2010 - 1:00pm
The New York Times

Cattle vs. Subdivisions

Arizona's long-standing open range laws allow cattle to roam freely, but the state is now reconsidering the laws as residents of the West's suburban subdivisions are growing more frustrated by encounters with roaming cattle.
12 October 2010 - 1:00pm
New York Times

New Report Proposes Ways to Combat L.A.'s "Food Deserts"

A new report from The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force calls for the government to take steps to increase accessibility to local, healthy food in urban areas.
6 October 2010 - 1:00pm
Good

Cities, Not Farms, At Fault For Bay Pollution

Cities, not the agriculture heavy Central Valley, are the source of most of the runoff and pollution that enters the San Francisco Bay, according to a new report.
6 October 2010 - 11:00am
San Francisco Chronicle

Irrigation Project Spurs Protests in Peru

A proposed irrigation project near the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru that would divert water away from small villages has sparked violent protests.
22 September 2010 - 7:00am
Guardian

Food Farms Become Solar Farms

Decommissioned farms and fields in California are being scouted as possible sited for renewable energy production.
12 August 2010 - 7:00am
The New York Times

The Past and Future of Urban Agriculture

Urban agriculture is not a new idea. Grist's Tom Philpott says the renewed interest in the idea should look for good ideas from its past.
10 August 2010 - 8:00am
Grist
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