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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/
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22 views | Food and Farming | Sep 26 2026 09:57
22 views | Food and Farming | Sep 26 2026 09:57
Voices: Supporting Detroit’s urban farms boosts city’s resilience
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Meet Arjun Jain, the 16-year-old New Jersey student who turned a backyard hydroponics hobby into a project.
146 views | Food and Farming | Sep 25 2026 09:57
146 views | Food and Farming | Sep 25 2026 09:57
UK: Winner of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine competition
27 views | Food and Farming | Sep 25 2026 09:57
27 views | Food and Farming | Sep 25 2026 09:57
Bringing Food Back to the City: A Critical Review of Green Infrastructure Concepts for Integrating Agriculture
17 views | Food and Farming | Sep 25 2026 09:49
17 views | Food and Farming | Sep 25 2026 09:49
Canada: An Indigenous Garden: Food, medicine, memory and a place to heal in Ottawa
24 views | Food and Farming | Sep 24 2026 10:09
24 views | Food and Farming | Sep 24 2026 10:09
India: Why urban foraging helps conserve green spaces
27 views | Food and Farming | Sep 23 2026 18:17
27 views | Food and Farming | Sep 23 2026 18:17
Canada: Thorncliffe Park Urban Farm harvested and distributed an astonishing 3,300 pounds of produce in 2025
26 views | Food and Farming | Sep 23 2026 09:25
26 views | Food and Farming | Sep 23 2026 09:25
