Urban agriculture

young adults make hot sauce

In Camden, a hot sauce is helping young urban entrepreneurs fight poverty

Food

Eco Interns, a teen-focused entrepreneurial program in New Jersey, offers job training and education in community gardens and farmers’ markets for an underserved urban community.

A woman stands next to rows of tidy plants on a rooftop farm

A Boston hospital promotes patient health with its own rooftop farm

Health & Medicine
young people laugh around a table

Black churches, powerful cultural forces, set their sights on food security

Food
A mountain of grain in a Chinese warehouse. China is importing more of its supply of thirsty and land-intensive crops like corn and soy, often from leased or purchased land that guarantees a supply outside of the regular international market.

Guaranteed lunch? China’s food ‘pipeline’

Environment

Urban farming grows in Ottawa

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A farm in a pickup truck

Two documentary filmmakers plant vegetables in the back of a pickup truck to show that food can be grown just about anywhere.

Closing the health food gap

In New York, many low-income neighborhoods that lack access to fresh and affordable fruits and vegetables now have help.

Skyscraper greenhouses could be farms of future

Vertical farms could help solve environmental problems associated with agriculture in order to make cities more sustainable.

Are vertical farms the future of city food?

Environment

To preserve the earth from climate change, some think people should start growing food in vertical farms.

Foraged lunch: harvesting urban food crops as a hedge against food insecurity

Environment

Efforts to make better use of food resources growing within the city are taking root in Seattle. It’s part of a movement to bring urban foraging from the margins to the mainstream as a hedge against food insecurity and climate change.

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