urban agriculture
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Cherry guy will do his part to keep Brooklyn bees from turning red
The owner of a maraschino cherry factory is going to do what he can to keep neighborhood bees out of the sticky-sweet corn syrup they love too much.
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At Youth Farm, kids learn where food comes from and how to enjoy it [VIDEO]
In honor of Congress finally voting on the long-awaited, yet disappointing Childhood Nutrition Reauthorization act, here's a look at a much more effective way to get kids to eat kale and other vegetables.
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Postcard from the first annual Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference
About 500 black farmers from the South, urban growers from the North, and food activists from all over gathered recently at Brooklyn College to discuss historical and lingering discrimination, food sovereignty, and more.
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Weeks 23 & 24: Some unsavory choices
Local, seasonal CSA produce is autumnal cornucopia. It's time for the Urbivore to get roasting -- but what happens when she can't take a turnip and finds her sense of wonder wounded by a worm?
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Food justice: It's not black and white in Detroit
I recently spent two weeks in Detroit, working at Brother Nature Produce farm and watching how the city’s food-justice groups handle race and privilege.
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Urban agriculture in West Oakland gets a $4 million boost
City Slicker Farms gets $4 million from the state to buy land for an "urban farm park" that will not only grow food for residents, but provide a safe place to play and hang out.
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Even city chickens want rooftop gardens on their coops
You can keep your mother cluckers cooped up -- while you raise the roof with raised garden beds -- with this chicken coop that doubles as a garden.
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Hitting the Big Apple's food-justice buffet
New York City is jam-packed with urban farms, community gardens, and food-justice projects. Not all of them are what they seem, I've discovered, but one has stolen my heart.
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The future of urban agriculture is not about the 10-mile diet
Urban agriculture is a movement in transition. Agriculture has a vital role to play in cities, but it must be done in a way that keeps the urban fabric intact.