Urban farming is transforming cities into hubs of sustainability, offering innovative ways to grow food, reduce environmental impact, and improve community well-being. For those curious about starting ...

Situated on a previously vacant 2-acre lot, Meacham Urban Farm has transformed a once unused space into a productive green oasis in downtown Tampa. The farm is part of the Encore redevelopment project ...

The leader of the Urban Farming movement took lessons from his Miami and Florida sports careers that still help him today. Will Allen is the head of Milwaukee-based Growing Power Inc., an urban ag ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Charles Madlock wants the Black community to put agriculture before pop culture. “Most people want to be rappers, football players or basketball players, anything but farming, because ...

LOCAL FARMING: Margie Raimondo instructs families on how to grow food as part of her nonprofit urban farm, Urbana Farmstead. Credit: Brian Chilson On a small plot in south Little Rock that was once a ...

A sociology professor at Georgetown University chaired a March 13 panel with a community activist and teenagers involved in sustainable farming, in advance of the release of her new book. In the years ...

Amid what many call a renaissance, where Detroit slowly sheds its reputation for abandon and blight, are reports of big businesses filling in the city’s gaps. On the food scene, exciting new projects ...

Rippling in Wednesday’s wind, a bright yellow banner beside California Hall hangs from a tree, reading, in bright green capital letters, “Farms are for Farming.” Beside it, more than a dozen students ...

En route from the Detroit Free Press' downtown newsroom to my home on Detroit’s east side, past massive buildings and construction sites, the city fades to brownfields, where swaths of vacant land and ...

Raising backyard chickens is an extension of an urban farming movement that has gained popularity nationwide. Home-raised livestock or agriculture avoids the energy usage and carbon emissions ...

Yolanda Young of The Young Family farm, trims greens on beets to sell at their weekly farmers market event on Saturdays. Tammy Ljungblad Tljungblad@kcstar.com Your Guide to KC: Star culture and ...