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En Manhattan, una Nueva Finca Urbana Hará Florecer el Desarrollo Juvenil
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Oportunidades para juventud de la ciudad de Nueva York conocer sus raíces, tanto en el sentido de sus tradiciones familiares como en el de las mismas raíces, tallos, y hojas que componen las plantas que producen los alimentos que consumen. Una parcela de tres acres abandonada desde hace décadas en el área de Washington Heights,…
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Manhattan Urban Farm to Prioritize Youth Development
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An opportunity for New York City youth to connect to their roots, both in the sense of their family traditions as well as the actual roots, stems, leaves, and vines that produce the food they eat. A long-abandoned three-acre plot in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan will soon be home to a youth…
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The Promise of Urban Agriculture: New Courses for Growers and Planners
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Building a successful commercial urban farm requires careful consideration of unique issues created by farming in the urban environment. The Cornell Small Farms Program’s Urban Ag project has partnered with USDA-AMS Marketing Services Division and Rooted, the Madison, WI-based center for urban agriculture enterprise and education, to collaborate and develop classes for commercial urban agriculturists, city planners, and policymakers.…
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In the News: How We’re Imagining the Future of Urban Agriculture
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In 2019, our director Anu Ranjarajan, and Molly Riordan, now an urban agriculture specialist with our program, published a report titled “The Promise of Urban Agriculture.” This report was drawn from data collected from a wide network of active urban growers was designed to further augment our Urban Ag project. Over the past two years,…
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Healthy Soil for Urban Farm Production: Building from Scratch
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Thanks to a SARE-funded grant, a nonprofit Urban Farm in Binghamton, NY, was able to experiment with new ways of creating a vegetable production field from scratch. As we all know, a robust regional food system is an important step toward becoming a more sustainable and equitable society. While rural agriculture is the backbone of a regional…
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Urban Ag Project Developing Curriculum to Support Producers, Planners and Policymakers
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Our Urban Ag project has partnered with USDA-AMS Marketing Services Division and Rooted, the Madison, WI-based center for urban agriculture enterprise and education, to collaborate and develop classes for commercial urban agriculturists, city planners, and policymakers. The project is informed by our publication, The Promise of Urban Agriculture, a national study of commercial farming in…
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Extension Plants Seeds for Urban Growth
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CCE Harvest New York urban agricultural specialists travel from their Brooklyn office by bus, subway and ferry providing educational programming and on-site technical assistance in all five boroughs for commercial vegetable growers and non-profits operating commercial urban gardens. From the rooftops of New York City to the weathered sidewalks of inner-city Buffalo, urban farms are…
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Growing Urban – a Lower West Side Story
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Two farmers are committed to providing the Buffalo, NY community with a variety of produce. By Lynnette Wright, New York FSA Public Affairs and Outreach Specialist A Perfect Blend Prior to their partnership, Carrie Nader had been working the land since 2014. When she was growing up, she loved helping her grandfather tend his large…
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In Camden, a Hot Sauce is Helping Young Urban Entrepreneurs Fight Poverty
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A teen-focused entrepreneurial program in Southern NJ offers job training and education By Suzanne Cope Last fall, a half-dozen teenagers from the Southern New Jersey city of Camden brought hot peppers they’d grown in an urban garden to a rented industrial kitchen. Donning latex gloves, they de-seeded and chopped the chilies before adding them to…
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Mushrooms Are Fruiting in Philadelphia
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One mushroom growing operation proves farming in the city is possible and profitable. by Molly R. Bucknum Most urban farmers have a tough time finding space to grow food. Location, high rent costs, and lack of infrastructure all make securing farmland in a city difficult. That’s why Tyler Case and Brian Versek of Philadelphia were…
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