It was their first stop on the Urban Farm Day tour of 15 farms in the City of Buffalo and one in the City of Tonawanda. And it was Gardens Buffalo Niagara’s first self-guided Urban Farm Day.

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.

The Planning Commission voted, 3-2, to recommend that City Council deny a rezoning and special-use permit for developer Justin Shimp’s Hogwaller Farm on Tuesday.

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.