Novella Carpenter’s 2009 memoir, Farm City, trumpets the value of raising chickens, pigs and bees—in Oakland. Urban farming is a response to a variety of pressures.

Detroit's livestock rules have led to some disputes, like when Idyll Farms in Brightmoor was told to remove its 18 goats less than two days after launching, at the risk of facing a $500 fine per goat.

Meet the Urban Farmers Shaping the Future of the $5 Trillion Agriculture Industry How a group of startups has moved farms to high-rise plant factories in the most unlikely locations.

Chicago nonprofit Urban Growers Collective has acquired a massive new farm in Chicago Heights, Illinois that's helping them harvest food security.

INDIANAPOLIS — The owner of a local Black-owned farm is reconnecting to his cultural and agricultural roots. Through a summer camp, he seeks to introduce kids in the community to a way of life that ...

Savannah Hagendijk. Courtesy Rinze Vegelien Farm-to-table has become a buzzy term over the past decade, but Amsterdam’s De Kas has embraced the sensibility since it opened in 2001.

A three-building, 72-unit apartment development in the planning stages would be nestled between Huff Park and a nonprofit’s forthcoming urban farm project in the Creston neighborhood. Parkview Flats ...

Volunteer with our team to manage our one-acre Urban Farm! Whether you are new to our farm or have been a tried-and-true weekly volunteer, come and join us! Volunteers must be at least 10 years old.

Managed by volunteers, the lot is a small farm, where a group called Growing Hope encourages people to gather and grown their own food. Since 2003, the nonprofit organization has grown hope ...

In this video, I demonstrate some of the tasks I do on our urban farming acreage. At the same time, I touch on our move into self-sufficiency, growing food, fruit & veg, having one parent at home ...