Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Urban agriculture is emerging as a key player in the search to develop sustainable cities, offering not just fresh produce but a ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In Newark and across Essex County, New Jersey, urban farms do ...

Mr. Buckner, a neighbor in our Ninth Ward New Orleans neighborhood, planted vegetables in his backyard. The Buckners, who had no children, taught me, my sister and Freddie who lived next door how to ...

It’s why she’s embarking on a plan, along with a group of other urban farms, to convert a 9,000-square-foot vacant grocery ...

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 ...

Roosters aren’t allowed — they’d wake up the neighbors. But in Newark you can raise chickens in your backyard. “We got them ...

Big Tex Urban Farms, the innovative agricultural initiative of the State Fair of Texas, is celebrating a major milestone in ...

On a busy corner in West Sacramento, surrounded by high-density housing and railroad tracks, sits a 1-half acre oasis of soil and green shoots. A group of young people tend to organized rows of ...

LOWELL — Nestled in a corner of Pawtucketville, and accessed via a one-lane dirt path barely visible between towering pine trees, sits an urban oasis called the Big Urban Farm. The four-acre space — ...

On a corner where shoppers once grabbed groceries, Jerry Ann Hebron is betting a shuttered supermarket can become the North ...

Urban agriculture is emerging as a key player in the search to develop sustainable cities, offering not just fresh produce but a portfolio of ecosystem services that can extend far beyond the farm and ...