Max Graham: Food Forests Aren’t Just Nourishing. They’re Cool.
Trees and edible plants are being planted at churches, schools, street corners, and empty lots across the country to provide free shade and food to all.
Lourdes Medrano: Growing Food and Latino Culture in Tucson’s Barrio Centro
In a long-abandoned school playground, a small-scale farm is planting seeds for a more equitable and sustaining food system in a neighborhood where fresh, affordable food is hard to come by.
Miguel Altieri: How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
Many organizations see urban agriculture as a way to enhance food security. It also offers environmental, health and social benefits.
Leah Penniman: By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
Enslavement and sharecropping cannot erase thousands of years of Black people’s sacred relationship with the land.
Video: 3 acres in Detroit
. This strikingly beautiful short documentary by French director Nora Mandray portrays two unlikely characters as they turn one of Detroit’s many abandoned properties into a three-level greenhouse. .
Video: Urban Farms across America
Filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette take a road trip to meet the people who are transforming urban lots and rooftops into gardens, and challenging the way this country grows and distributes … Continue reading
