‘Micro-agriculture’ is how Arkansas’s small, urban growers are making the food system more resilient
‘Micro-agriculture’ can save money, neighborhoods alike
By Cristina LaRue
Arkansas Online
Dec 28, 2024
Excerpt:
Amanda Perez, associate professor and state food systems specialist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service, said there are plenty of people with different backgrounds growing food at their homes in Arkansas.
When Perez and her husband moved into a suburban house with a flat backyard covered in turf grass they decided to start producing their own food and it has become a family activity.
They planted a kitchen garden, fruit trees and other plants.
“The thing that happens when you start integrating this type of system in your backyard, is everybody wants to be outside,” Perez said.
“Our family went from going out on the weekends to now, where we go outside almost the second we wake up and stay outside after our jobs until its time to go to bed.”
North Little Rock backyard gardener Kesha Cobb started growing food 11 years ago, and now grows roughly 2,000 pounds of produce, with more than 100 fruits and vegetables, in her roughly 5,000 square-foot garden in a low-income neighborhood and food desert. Cobb is president and chief executive officer of the nonprofit National Women in Agriculture’s Arkansas chapter and chief executive officer of The Sustainability Project, Inc.
“I wasn’t a second or third generation farmer, so I didn’t have land to start with — I didn’t even have a house to start with, so I started growing at my mom’s place or at a friend’s place,” Cobb said.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/micro-agriculture-is-how-arkansass-small-urban-growers-are-making-the-food-system-more-resilient/
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