Students milking a goat in the barn that they helped build at the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit, Mich.

Trainees, interns, and farm staff work together on farm tasks and share lunch each day, another part of the healthy-living training program the Homeless Garden Project in Santa Cruz, Calif., has developed.

At the East Thirteenth Street Garden in Denver, Colo., two Somali Bantu youth enjoy mangoes on a stick.

Backyard farmers in the Versailles Community in New Orleans, La.

Melvin Price at Growing Home in Chicago, Ill.

Seattle, Washington's Interbay P-Patch is a 30-year-old site in a busy residential area.

Matt and Peg Sheaffer in front of their silos. Instead of storing commodity crops, as they would on many Illinois' large farms, these silos hold the tools and equipment used to produce the wide range of crops grown at Prairie Crossing in Grayslake, Ill.

Trung Tran harvest greens growing along her backyard fence in the Versailles Community in New Orleans, La.