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Links of general interest
City Farmer News:
"News stories from 'Urban Agriculture News' "
Community Food
Security Coalition, Portland, OR
Their 2002 report, "Urban Agriculture and Community Food
Security in the United States: Farming from the Center City to the Urban
Fringe" includes a section on
overcoming challenges to urban agriculture.
Mecklenburg County Community Gardens
These are rental spaces for community. Rents are $25 for 20x20 plots at Reedy Creek Park, and $15 for 10x15 plots at Fraizer, Hoskins, Huntingtowne, McAlpine Creek and Winget Parks.
Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign, the public service program of the Garden Writers Association Foundation launched in 1995.
"To provide the Charlotte region a place to connect, reclaiming food sources and palatial growth. Supporting food that is Good, Clean & Fair."
Programs elsewhere with educational components
City Slicker Farms, Oakland, Calif.
Since 2001, the nonprofit has created five plots, at least one bought at a tax sale in the distressed neighborhood. Since 2005 it has helped residents build backyard plots, and allowed them to barter their excess produce at community markets it runs.
A
Wall Street Journal story says the nonprofit had a 2008 budget of
$150,000.
Growing
Home, Chicago, Ill.
Growing Power, Milwaukee, Wis.
The nonprofit created in 1999 by a former NBA player supports sustainable urban growing practices and training programs.
Here is a background story in
Progress Illinois.
Jones Valley Urban Farm Project, Birmingham, Ala.
Heifer's Urban Agriculture projects
These items are listed by U.S. region.
Red Hook Community Farm, Brooklyn NY
Red Hook works with teens to encourage new leaders. It
operates school-year and summer education programs, has a 2.75-acre urban
farm on an old playground, operates two farmers markets and has
revenue-generating partnerships with two restaurants.