Detroit

1/8 credit: Michael Hanson
Students milking a goat in the barn that they helped build at the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit, Mich.

Santa Cruz

2/8 credit: Michael Hanson
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.

Denver

3/8 credit: Michael Hanson
At the East Thirteenth Street Garden in Denver, Colo., two Somali Bantu youth enjoy mangoes on a stick.

New Orleans

4/8 credit: Michael Hanson
Backyard farmers in the Versailles Community in New Orleans, La.

Chicago

5/8 credit: Michael Hanson
Melvin Price at Growing Home in Chicago, Ill.

Seattle

6/8 credit: Michael Hanson
Seattle, Washington's Interbay P-Patch is a 30-year-old site in a busy residential area.

Grayslake, Ill.

7/8 credit: Michael Hanson
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.

New Orleans

8/8 credit: Michael Hanson
Trung Tran harvest greens growing along her backyard fence in the Versailles Community in New Orleans, La.
       

Breaking Through Concrete [SLIDESHOW]

By Grist staff

For their new book, Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival, brothers David and Michael Hanson and crew traveled the nation visiting and documenting urban farms. Read more about the tour here.

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