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About City Farmer
Shoemakers, fashion models, computer geeks, politicians, lawyers, teachers, chefs … all city dwellers … all can grow food at home after work in back yards, community gardens or on flat roofs. For the past 33 years, City Farmer has encouraged urban dwellers to pull up a patch of lawn and plant some vegetables, kitchen herbs and fruit. Our message is the same today as it was in 1978 and will be relevant far into the future.
This website is a collection of stories about our work at City Farmer here in Vancouver, Canada, and about urban farmers from around the world. The site is maintained by City Farmer executive director, Michael Levenston.
Email: cityfarm@interchange.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.685.5832
City Farmer’s first web site Urban Agriculture Notes (www.cityfarmer.org) has hundreds of pages of information about city farming. Begun in 1994, it was the first web site on the Internet to publish information about urban farming.
City Farmer teaches people how to grow food in the city, compost their waste and take care of their home landscape in an environmentally responsible way. When visiting Vancouver, British Columbia, visit our staff at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden, 2150 Maple Street, and see how we take care of our urban landscape. See a compost toilet, green roof, cob shed, organic food garden, permeable lane, natural lawn, waterwise garden, worm and backyard composter and more. 604.736.2250
http://www.cityfarmer.info/
Canada: Clean, Green, Beautiful North Bay to revitalize former Gathering Place Gardens
14 views | Food and Farming | Jan 20 2026 09:57
14 views | Food and Farming | Jan 20 2026 09:57
Africa: Insights from Urban Farming Systems in Cotonou, Benin
9 views | Food and Farming | Jan 20 2026 09:57
9 views | Food and Farming | Jan 20 2026 09:57
Malaysia: Selangor scales up urban farming to bolster food resilience
14 views | Food and Farming | Jan 19 2026 09:25
14 views | Food and Farming | Jan 19 2026 09:25
World’s tallest indoor vertical farm, costing $80 million, opens in Singapore
106 views | Food and Farming | Jan 18 2026 09:49
106 views | Food and Farming | Jan 18 2026 09:49
Canada: Mississauga bylaw governing tall grass violates freedom of expression rights, court rules
36 views | Food and Farming | Jan 18 2026 09:49
36 views | Food and Farming | Jan 18 2026 09:49
HCM City accelerates shift toward ecological urban agriculture
17 views | Food and Farming | Jan 17 2026 09:33
17 views | Food and Farming | Jan 17 2026 09:33
Canada: Obituary: Elwood Quinn remembered for bringing his love of farming to city dwellers
14 views | Food and Farming | Jan 15 2026 10:33
14 views | Food and Farming | Jan 15 2026 10:33
