Urban Agriculture

Ideally at some point this will include health and environmental effects.

See also [Main Food page Food Scarcity, as well as Genetically Modified Organisms and Chemicals. For labor issues, see The Grapes of Wrath page.

Articles/Reports

Seed Library, including East Palo Alto, supports urban agriculture. 4/12

Food Stamp Challenge. useful blog, including background. Record numbers of Americans are getting food aid from Federal government. In solidarity with the poor and for research, some people are voluntarily trying to live on this food. Example.

New study shows living near farmer's market affects health 8/11. New Stanford study of effect on food production. 5/11

Books

Farm City is about urban gardening in Oakland Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer By Novella Carpenter (includes excerpt and audio interview).

Agro-ecology overview by UCSC's Steve Gliessman explains problems of conventional factory farms and the potential of organic.

Video

Urban Roots is a new documentary on farming in Detroit. 3/12

it'd be good to show how much GHG conventional farming puts out? might be something here: