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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/
Backyard farming movement takes root in Central Florida
27 views | Food and Farming | Oct 16 2026 10:41
27 views | Food and Farming | Oct 16 2026 10:41
Sunlight and precise nutrient management, keys to success in urban agriculture
26 views | Food and Farming | Oct 16 2026 10:41
26 views | Food and Farming | Oct 16 2026 10:41
How a heartbroken L.A. farmer turned a destroyed passion fruit vine into luscious curd
32 views | Food and Farming | Oct 15 2026 09:41
32 views | Food and Farming | Oct 15 2026 09:41
One year later, Growing Food Growing People’s St. Louis’ urban farm is reaching more people in the West End
23 views | Food and Farming | Oct 14 2026 09:49
23 views | Food and Farming | Oct 14 2026 09:49
India: Role of urban and peri-urban agriculture in nutritional diversity, cultural resilience and community-based food security in an Eastern Himalayan city
16 views | Food and Farming | Oct 14 2026 09:49
16 views | Food and Farming | Oct 14 2026 09:49
Canada: At UBC, the future of food is growing just steps from the dining hall
34 views | Food and Farming | Oct 14 2026 09:49
34 views | Food and Farming | Oct 14 2026 09:49
Germany: Demolition costs for vacant lots are a burden on allotment garden associations
27 views | Food and Farming | Oct 13 2026 10:25
27 views | Food and Farming | Oct 13 2026 10:25
Canada: In 2020, Pamela Anderson Returned to Her Family’s Canadian Estate and Built a Massive Garden.
208 views | Food and Farming | Oct 12 2026 10:49
208 views | Food and Farming | Oct 12 2026 10:49
Call for article proposals: Urban Agriculture Magazine (UAM43) on the theme of food loss and waste in city region food systems.
19 views | Food and Farming | Oct 12 2026 10:49
19 views | Food and Farming | Oct 12 2026 10:49
Detroit Farm & Cider sues city to get its animals back
104 views | Food and Farming | Oct 11 2026 09:57
104 views | Food and Farming | Oct 11 2026 09:57
