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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/
Vertical farming legend Dickson Despommier passed away
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43 views | Food and Farming | Feb 15 2025 09:41
A Sample Proposal on “Developing Sustainable Urban Farming Social Enterprises for Food Security”
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24 views | Food and Farming | Feb 15 2025 09:33
10 Funding Opportunities for NGOs Promoting Urban Agriculture
19 views | Food and Farming | Feb 14 2025 09:41
19 views | Food and Farming | Feb 14 2025 09:41
UK: Mourners are scattering human ashes in a community garden and volunteers are ticked — for a gross reason: ‘Quite distressing’
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69 views | Food and Farming | Feb 14 2025 09:33
Canada: How To Grow Like A Chef: Carissa Kasper On Garden-To-Table Living
32 views | Food and Farming | Feb 13 2025 20:41
32 views | Food and Farming | Feb 13 2025 20:41
Decaying S.F. block of greenhouses is for sale again. Could it become single-family homes?
31 views | Food and Farming | Feb 13 2025 09:33
31 views | Food and Farming | Feb 13 2025 09:33
US farmers turn to Airbnb, corn mazes to outlast agricultural downturn
38 views | Food and Farming | Feb 13 2025 09:33
38 views | Food and Farming | Feb 13 2025 09:33
Green City Growers Champions Urban Farming in Boston for a Greener, Fresher Future
25 views | Food and Farming | Feb 12 2025 10:01
25 views | Food and Farming | Feb 12 2025 10:01
‘Good for the Soul’: Nonprofit turns unused church land in Nashville into a farm producing food for the community
20 views | Food and Farming | Feb 12 2025 10:01
20 views | Food and Farming | Feb 12 2025 10:01
Burkina Faso: ‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city
22 views | Food and Farming | Feb 12 2025 10:01
22 views | Food and Farming | Feb 12 2025 10:01