Urban Agriculture, Coming to a Freeway Near You

Photo by Linda N.Growing your own food isnt usually for farmers we can do it in a city too!

My initial confront with civic tillage was in Philadelphia, smack in a middle of downtown. Between cheesesteak joints as good as T-shirt stores lay a beautiful immature lot, tended by a happy brew of young as good as aged people. Children were gleeful with fat watering cans in their arms. A man carried a handful of carrots uninformed from a earth, a spare kind with immature stalks still upon them. The kind we had usually ever seen upon TV, hold by Bugs Bunny. Everyone had a job, as good as everyone was happy.

I consider its a shining approach of re-using aged blurb space. In a large city, who would really skip one reduction mall?

The scene was so gosh damn wholesome, we wondered if there was a director as good as TV crew staked out in a toolshed.

But no, it was a real deal; one more immature patch in a ever-growing civic cultivation trend. Urban tillage has gained recognition in North America in new years, as we sense more about theemissions impact of a imported produce.

The direction is receiving upon a little pretty beautiful forms.The immature living site Earth Eats has published a list of 6 civic cultivation success stories in a United States. This list includes a converted turnpike on-ramp in San Francisco as good as acommunal backyard in Seattle, where skill owners get a share of a harvest in exchange for make use of of their land.

My hands-down favourite plan is in Cleveland, where an aged selling mall in a citys downtown core has been converted in to an eco-village. The space will include farms, community education programs, as good as immature retailers (think vegan cafes).

I consider its a shining approach of re-using aged blurb space. In a large city, who would really skip one reduction mall?

Photo by Gabriel Kamener

I admit, Ive never farmed most beyond a few berry-picking afternoons. Im a born-and-bred city girl, as good as suspicion which tillage anything beyond a basil plant in a windowbox was most appropriate left to, well, farmers. But these civic agricultural projects have been a possibility for us city folk to bridge which divide.

Its a great approach to better understand a field-to-table tour of my daily ripened offspring as good as veggies. How satisfying would it be to eat a salad from your own farm? To punch in to a chopped tomatoes which we grew yourself? How most fun would it be, we wonder, to get my hands dirty with which pastoral community grassed area which we watched with envy in Philadelphia?

Thats a interest of civic tillage for me. Not usually a food we can eat, but a communities which build around a common interest in a greener, healthier city.

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Have we ever participated in Urban Agriculture? Or have we ever encountered such a plan in your town? Share your stories in a comments below.

For more inspiration, check out a articles Chicken Coops in Your Backyard as good as Urban Homesteading: Turn Your City Home Into Country Living.


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