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- Cuba’s Urban Agrarians Flourish
- Growing in Seattle: Food aid from the home front
- I Tractor Farm: art from urban agrarians
- Even Seattle hospitals are full of sustainable, local food…
- Rocket Science – An edible rooftop garden in Portland
- One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal
- Anna Lappé, Maverick Farms, and the next generation of farmers
- Southeast Regional Farm to School Conference
- Urban agriculture meets the Jetsons: Some wacky and some plausible ideas for the future of feeding cities
- Montréal Closes 167 Urban Garden Plots Due to Soil Contamination
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Articles and Studies
- Agriculture in Middle Eastern cities: Commonalities and contrasts
- Are urban gardens an efficient use of resources?
- Change We Can Stomach
- Chicago Green Action Guide
- Does Urban Agriculture Help Prevent Malnutrition? Evidence from Kampala
- Edens Lost & Found: Philadelphia Action Plan
- Edens Lost and Found
- Farming Inside Cities: Entrepreneurial Urban Agriculture in the United States
- Food and Energy – Strategies for Sustainable Development
- Food Failures and Futures
- Food For Growth: A Community Food System Plan for Buffalo’s West Side
- From Basketball to Urban Farming
- From the Desk of Jac Smit – “Urban Agriculture”
- Green Seattle Guide
- Growing a beautiful edible landscape in an urban neighborhood
- Growing urban farms provide useful greens and earnings for poor, but reforms could boost supplies
- Healthy Cities (IDRC)
- Involving Children In Children’s Gardens Farm In The City: St. Paul, Minnesota
- Los Angeles Action Guide
- New report shows edible cities are the future
- Placing the food system on the urban agenda: The role of municipal institutions in food systems planning
- Rising Food Prices: What should be done?
- The newly recognized importance of urban agriculture
- Urban Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United States: Farming from the City Center to the Urban Fringe
- Urban Agriculture: A Guide to Container Gardening
- Urban Agriculture: The Potential of Rooftop Gardening
- Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security
- What Would the World be Like in the 21st Century if Cities Were Nutritionally Self-Reliant?
Blogs
- Agrowth
- Daily Prandium
- Ffenyx Rising
- Homegrown Evolution
- LOCAL CHOICES
- Local Foods Research Project
- Media and the Environment
- One Straw: Be The Change
- Rooftop Vegetable Farming
- Rooted in Community Blog
- Sleepy Cat Hollow
- Suzie-Q
- Terroncito’s Thoughts
- The Apartment Farm
- Urban Ministry Community Garden Blog
Business
Crazy Cool Architecture
- Cascadia Region Green Building Council
- Escaper (Evolo design)
- Evolo Skyscraper Competition and Designs
- Foster + Partners Eco Tower
- Futurama Farming in New York
- Hot Summer of Urban Farming
- Mithun Architects’ Vertical Farm for Seattle
- Prosthetic Gardens
- Retrofitting our Skyscrapers For Food and Power
- Sky Farm Proposed for Downtown Toronto
- Surface/Subsurface
- Symbiotic Interlock
- The Vertical Farm Project
- Urban Bypass (Evolo design)
- Urban Cactus
- Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYC
- Wayback Machine 1984: The Future of Agriculture
eBooks
- Agropolis
- Cities Farming for the Future: Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities
- Cities Feeding People: An Examination of Urban Agriculture in East Africa
- For Hunger-Proof Cities
- Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development
- Urban Agriculture: Food Jobs and Sustainable Cities
Edible Gardening
Education
Events
farm bill
- 2008 Farm Bill?
- Ag Observatory: Farm Bill Page
- America’s Second Harvest Applauds House Override Of President’s Veto
- Breakdown of Farm Bill Programs
- Crunch time for the farm bill: The legislation isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than extending the 2002 bill
- EDITORIAL: A Disgraceful Farm Bill
- Farm bill still stuck in rut
- Food Fight: The 2007 Farm Bill by Dan Imhoff
- House overrides Bush veto of U.S. farm bill
- Hungry Americans Still Waiting for a Farm Bill
- Long-Delayed Farm Bill Conference Begins
- Mixup negates House override of farm bill veto
- New US Farm Bill will anger the world
- Senate set to join House on override of farm bill veto
- Siding with the Bushies?
- Soaring Food and Fuel Prices Create Urgent Need for a Farm Bill
- The 2007 Farm Bill Gets More Attention Than Any Other in History
- The White House Official Farm Bill Veto Message
- USDA Farm Bill Website
- We’ll reap what we sow by Daniel Imhoff
Fishies
Food Crisis
Food Security
- American’s Second Harvest
- Are urban gardens an efficient use of resources?
- Center for Food and Justice
- Center for Food Safety
- City Harvest: Rescuing food for New York’s Hungry
- Community Alliance with Family Farmers
- Community Food Security Coalition
- Does Urban Agriculture Help Prevent Malnutrition? Evidence from Kampala
- Food First
- Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy
- Food For Thought
- How secure is our food supply?
- International Food Policy Research Institute
- Northeast Regional Anti-Hunger Network
- Organic UK
- Urban Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United States: Farming from the City Center to the Urban Fringe
- Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security
- World Hunger Year
Forums
International
Listserves
Local Foods
News
Policy
Practical Gardening
Projects
- Center for Informed Food Choices
- Edens Lost and Found
- Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
- From Basketball to Urban Farming
- Grassroots Gardens of Buffalo
- Heart Beet Gardening
- Heifer International’s Urban Agriculture Projects
- Involving Children In Children’s Gardens Farm In The City: St. Paul, Minnesota
- Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP): Buffalo, NY
- New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
- Queen City Farm
- Rochester Roots
- Sustainable Table
- The Food Project
- Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee – Growing Power
- Urban Poverty and Environment Program
Rooftops and Containers
- A Simple Solution
- An Urban Rooftop Integrated Microfarm For Mt.Gravatt’s Commercial Buildings
- Cascadia Region Green Building Council
- Evaluating the Potential of Green Roof Agriculture
- GreenRoofs Australia
- Rooftop Vegetable Farming
- The Vinegar Factory Rooftop Agricultural Greenhouse
- Urban Agriculture: A Guide to Container Gardening
- Urban Agriculture: The Potential of Rooftop Gardening
Sustainable Agriculture
UK
Urban Development
- Best practices database in improving the living environment
- Edens Lost & Found: Philadelphia Action Plan
- Food and Energy – Strategies for Sustainable Development
- Healthy Cities (IDRC)
- New report shows edible cities are the future
- Placing the food system on the urban agenda: The role of municipal institutions in food systems planning
- Urban Poverty and Environment Program
Videos, photos, radio articles...
- Bioneers Digital Media
- Cooking Up a Story Videos (Really Good!!)
- Edible Yard Farms in Colorado
- Expose Urban Solutions Photos
- Food Love: Greenhouse Growing (Part 1 of 3)
- Green Planet Films
- Growing Power Food Love: Aquaculture/Secret to Success (Part 3 of 3)
- Growing Power Food Love: Vermicompost (Part 2 of 3)
- HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION – Radical Change Taking Root (One of my favorites!)
- How to Set Up a Low Maintenance Garden : What is Vertical Gardening?
- It’s Easy Eating Green
- Lets Grow Buffalo! Urban agriculture in Buffalo, NY
- Making a vertical garden – Part 2
- More Square Foot Gardening with Mel (if you feel like getting yelled at)
- Path to Freedom – City Chickens
- Path To Freedom – Getting Started Growing Food
- Path To Freedom’s YouTube Video Channel
- Peak Moment: How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
- Peak Moment: Self-sufficient Small Farms
- The Meatrix
- The Urban Homesteaders YouTube Channel
- Treehugger TV YouTube Video Channel
- Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee – Growing Power
- Videos I Recommend on YouTube
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