The Urban Farmer

• Author : Curtis Allen Stone
• Publisher : New Society Publishers
• Release : 14 December 2015

There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement. The

• Author : Annette Cottrell,Joshua McNichols
• Publisher : Skipstone Press
• Release : 31 March 2023

CLICK HEREto download the chapter on "Growing Strategies to Maximize Garden Space" fromThe Urban Farm Handbook * More than 150 sustainable resources for the Pacific Northwest * More than 90 basic home-production recipes * 75 black-and-white and 35 full color photographs * Up-to-date information on Seattle-area urban farming permits and policy Is that . . . a goat in your garage?! It might be if you've been readingThe Urban Farm Handbook: City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat. In this comprehensive guide for city-dwellers on how

• Author : Tamara Thompson
• Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
• Release : 08 August 2014

This edition includes a variety of articles on urban agriculture. Articles discuss urban agriculture as a viable solution to food insecurities; the economic sustainability of urban agriculture; the impact of urban agriculture on specific groups, such as women in developing countries; and the future of urban farming. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.

• Author : Thomas Fox
• Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
• Release : 14 November 2018

Comprehensive Guide to the Urban Farm Movement It doesn’t take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Thanks to the burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don’t have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Urban Farming 2nd Edition walks every city and suburban dweller down the path of self-sustainability. It offers practical advice and inspiration for gardening and farming from a high-rise apartment, participating in a community garden, vertical farming, and converting

• Author : Angus Stewart,Simon Leake
• Publisher : Allen & Unwin
• Release : 25 October 2017

Urban environments require specific techniques to optimise growing conditions for plants. Two leading experts in horticulture and soil science teach the reader how to grow their own food-from the ground up-in this authoritative, accessible, generously photographed guide. Grow Your Own provides simple step-by-step methods and information enabling the average city dweller to grow food plants at whatever scale their time and resources permit and no matter their location, be it suburban backyard or apartment balcony. Some of the many topics

• Author : Jantje Halberstadt,Jorge Marx Gómez,Jean Greyling,Tulimevava Kaunapawa Mufeti,Helmut Faasch
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 27 September 2021

This book is based on the work of the YEEES Research Centre, an international network of scientists from partner universities in Germany, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa. It presents inter- and transdisciplinary research that explores different ways of understanding resilience, an essential characteristic for systems, organizations and people – providing them with strength in the face of attacks and challenges, and both enabling and fostering constant adaptation and improvement. Building resilience to face today’s ever-changing societal and environmental realities requires

• Author : Jennifer Cockrall-King
• Publisher : Prometheus Books
• Release : 14 February 2012

A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands—and in our cities. This book examines alternative food systems in cities around the globe that are shortening their food chains, growing food within their city limits, and taking their "food security" into their own hands. The author, an award-winning food journalist, sought out leaders in the urban-agriculture movement and visited cities successfully dealing with "food deserts." What she found was not

• Author : John Smith
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release : 30 March 2016

Curtis grew as many as 70 different types of crops in much even bigger pieces of plots. Due to this, the amount of man hours needed to ensure that everything worked out as required was high. We see from the article that, the author had to figure out why he was getting very little profits than expected. He had to plan again on the crops to grow as some were bringing high profit levels (80% of total income). He also planned on

• Author : Sanya Ojo
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 2023

This case highlights the activities of an urban farmer, Banji, who was "pushed" into vegetable farming in a city suburb to earn a living. Banji's engagement in farming activities proves to be an eye-opener to the huge opportunities embedded in the agriculture sector that he is determined to fully explore. Yet, there are problems such as finance, proficiency, and environmental issues that farmers like him will have to navigate. Urban farmers have the potential not only to help secure the

• Author : Jeremy N. Smith
• Publisher : Skyhorse
• Release : 21 October 2014

Fifteen people—plus a class of first graders—tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community . . . and how they can change yours, too. Urban Farming Handbook includes: • Fifteen first-person stories of personal and civic transformation from a range of individuals, including farmers and community garden members, a low-income senior and a troubled teen, a foodie, a food bank officer, and many more • Seven in-depth “How It Works” sections on student farms, community gardens, community-supported agriculture (

• Author : Vincent Bronson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 12 March 2021

Urban agriculture is often confused with community gardening, homesteading or subsistence farming. We're happy to be thought of in such fine company but the fact is that they are very different animals. What distinguishes us is that urban agriculture assumes a level of commerce, the growing of product to be sold as opposed to being grown for personal consumption or sharing. In community gardening, there is no such commercial activity.You don't have to be a corporation to be an

• Author : Carey Clouse
• Publisher : Chronicle Books
• Release : 27 May 2014

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba found itself solely responsible for feeding a nation that had grown dependent on imports and trade subsidies. With fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides disappearing overnight, citizens began growing their own organic produce anywhere they could find space— on rooftops, balconies, vacant lots, and even school playgrounds. By 1998 there were more than 8,000 urban farms in Havana producing nearly half of the country's vegetables. What began as a grassroots initiative had,

• Author : David Hackett (J.),University of Manchester. School of Environment and Development
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 1995

• Author : Michael Ableman
• Publisher : New Society Publishers
• Release : 14 April 2020

Farm the City is an introduction to the principles, methods, and realities of starting an urban farm derived from the success of Sole Food Street Farms, one of the largest urban agricultural enterprises in North America. Covers navigating regulations and finding land, to crop planning, fundraising, marketing, and more.

• Author : Stefanie Schumann
• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• Release : 18 April 2011

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Intercultural Management), course: Cultural Policy and International Cultural Cooperation, language: English, abstract: The term urban farming or agriculture recently pops up in the media. It is mainly applied regarding city development in third world countries, but as well it becomes more often a phenomena taking place in cities of industrial countries. After examining the general characteristics of urban farming, I am going