Urban Farming Links - Wisconsin, Chicago, etc.
Milwaukee and Greater Wisconsin
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
Milwaukee Office of Environmental Sustainability
Milwaukee Urban Agriculture Network
Oneida Community Integrated Food System
Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
Chicagoland
Advocates for Urban Agriculture
Angelic Organics Learning Center
Greater Chicago Food Depository
National and International Groups
Added-Value, Brooklyn, NY
Afri-Can Food Basket, Toronto, ON
The Brotherhood SisterSol, New York, NY
Community Food Security Coalition
East New York Farms, Brooklyn, NY
The Food Project, Lincoln, MA
Food Share, Toronto, ON
Growing Hope, Ypsilanti, MI
Heine Brothers Coffee, Louisville, KY
Just Food, New York City, NY
Massachusetts Avenue Project, Buffalo, NY
New Orleans Food and Farm Network, New Orleans, LA
People’s Grocery, Oakland, CA
ReVision Urban Farm, Dorchester, MA
Rooted in Community, Washington, D.C.
GM’s Bust Turns Detroit Into Urban Prairie of Vacant-Lot Farms
With enough abandoned lots to fill the city of San Francisco, Motown is 138 square miles divided between expanses of decay and emptiness and tracts of still-functioning communities and commercial areas. Close to six barren acres of an estimated 17,000 have already been turned into 500 “mini- farms,” demonstrating the lengths to which planners will go to make land productive.
A land bank the city created in July would coordinate the project if approved by Washington. These clearinghouses for vacant lots make it easier and cheaper for developers to invest in urban areas. Parcels in a similar program in Cleveland sold for as little as $1 as long as buyers agreed to maintain the property and pay taxes.
“We’re looking at pretty innovative ideas,” said George Jackson, Detroit Economic Growth’s chief executive.
One is urban farming. In many parts of Detroit, land that once held houses now grows cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and collard greens.
The city has more than 500 gardens and “we plan to triple that every year,” said Michael Travis, deputy director of Urban Farming, a Detroit-based nonprofit corporation that helps clear land and provides topsoil and fertilizer.
Search-
Flickr Photostrem-
