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Urban Farming Takes Root in Arizona: Download the Workbook: Farmer’s markets, community gardens, composting, container farms and home-grown food are just a handful of the ways that urban farming is making a resurgence in Arizona and around the country. Like the food being produced as a result, the list of urban agriculture innovations seems to grow daily. Catch up on all of the latest… Continue reading

WorkBook: Urban Farming (July 2017): The Urban Farming WorkBook provides an overview of key concepts and innovations, as well as resources and toolkits. Topics covered range from starting an urban agriculture enterprise to the community benefits of urban farms.

Build It, Teach It, Change It: “Building new supermarkets in areas that lack them won’t positively change people’s health.” That’s how the nightly news saw things after Health Affairs released a study comparing two Philadelphia neighborhoods. One got a new store selling fresh produce. The other did not. Researchers found no statistically significant improvements in body-mass index (BMI) or fruit and… Continue reading

The Incredible Shrinking City: Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo keep shrinking, leaving leaders no choice but to re-imagine them. It turns out that adaptation to The Incredible Shrinking City includes making it healthier for people: designing with nature, establishing local food sources (urban farming, community gardening), and re-aggregating communities on a livable scale. U.S. cities aren’t likely to ever be… Continue reading

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