'These kids hate veggies' [ Now Toronto ] Thu, 27 Sep  We like to support community groups that already have energy and enthusiasm,' explains Ravenna Barker, FoodShare's urban agriculture facilitator. Read More ...

APPLE 'FARM' ON RANDALLS IS [ New York Post ] Mon, 10 Sep  They also toured interactive agricultural soil and water exhibits, met farmers, and saw urban-agriculture and cooking demonstrations. Read More ...

Food Deserts: How a Community Group in Detroit is Changing Ideas [ Green Options blog ] Tue, 02 Oct  'Our primary work is urban agriculture, urban growing in the city of Detroit...It'sa small-scale farm. We mainly sell the food, although we give some away to Read More ...

Edible Schoolyard seed planted [ Pittsburgh Post Gazette ] Thu, 20 Sep  executive director of Grow Pittsburgh, a nonprofit urban agriculture organization that helped set up the meeting between Ms. Waters and Mr. Roosevelt. Read More ...

Barun Roy: Urban greening, top to bottom [ Business Standard ] Wed, 12 Sep  Singapore, thus, adds a totally new dimension to the concept of urban agriculture. What currently exists as an activity largely in the peripheries of cities Read More ...

THE SCIENCE BARGE: Making Waves in Urban Agriculture [ Inhabitat ] Wed, 12 Sep  The New York Sun Works Center for Sustainable Engineering is already tackling this issue head on with their urban agriculture project, the Science Barge, Read More ...

Farm Manager [ Sustainable Industries ] Sun, 07 Oct  to: Katherine Kelly, Executive Director, KC Center for Urban Agriculture, PO Box 6043 Kansas City, KS 66106; or by e-mail: katherine@kccua.org. Read More ...

Fruits (and vegetables) of their labour [ McGill Reporter ] Thu, 27 Sep  Having little gardening experience, volunteering has been a hands-on way to learn about best practices and efficient urban agriculture. Read More ...

Act now, eat later [ Mail & Guardian Online ] Wed, 12 Sep  The report says organic and localised urban agriculture will enhance food security, which will be threatened by oil depletion. Read More ...

PPP In Urban Productive Greening [ Gorkhapatra ] Mon, 24 Sep  In this, urban agriculture is integrated into land use planning and urban management system (including solid and liquid waste management and bio-fuel Read More ...

Kenya: Livestock Pose Disease Risk As Numbers Rise [ AllAfrica.com ] Wed, 19 Sep  says the report, adding that the rise in urban agriculture poses the danger of increased risk in transmission of disease from animals to humans. Read More ...

Delegation from Mexico's Labor Party Concludes Visit to Cuba [ Cuba News ] Tue, 02 Oct  The delegation visited places of social interest in Havana linked to the urban agriculture, public health and education sectors. Read More ...

The Fifth Annual Glynwood Harvest Awards Honor Creativity and [ CSRwire.com (press release) ] Thu, 27 Sep  Additionally, there has been an increase in projects designed to encourage urban agriculture -- including efforts to help youth understand how food is Read More ...