Urban Agriculture

Urban Agriculture/Sustainable Farming

Improper Bostonian feature on Urban Farming: In Boston, farm-to-table doesn’t have to leave your street.

Special issue of Planning magazine, focusing on urban agriculture efforts from Vancouver to L.A.

Frog Design’s answer to the issue of local food distribution from farms to urban centers

Sustainable agriculture becomes viable big business by bringing together venture capitalists and urban agriculture startups

Urban Farming on On Point Radio with Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power in Milwaukee, and Novella Carpenter from Berkeley, who started Ghost Town Farm on an abandoned lot next to her home in Oakland.

A rooftop garden in NYC provides fresh produce for Eli Zabar, owner of E.A.T. restaurant and Vinegar Factory

Public Policy

New legislation allows Cleveland to offer a 5% discount to local food businesses bidding for city contracts.

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010: Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln released her “mark” for Child Nutrition Reauthorization. The bill attacks America’s persistent child hunger problem; meeting the needs of low-income children for nutritious meals and snacks is a top priority.

Retired Admirals and Generals, Senator Lugar and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Issue Warning: Childhood Obesity Endangers National Security, Urge Congress to Pass New Legislation To Get Junk Food Out of Schools

Public Health

Too Fat to Serve: How Our Unhealthy Food System Is Undermining the Military: Americans have become so overweight that a large percentage of young people no longer qualify for military service. How did we get here?

The Real Cost of a Healthy Diet: A Community-Based Food Security Project at Boston Medical Center