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Canada: Read Menking Award Winner Izzy Lane’s Zine on Urban Farming in Montreal

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Isabel “Izzy” Lane (M.S. Urban and Community Planning ’26), winner of the SoA’s 2025 Bill Menking Travel Award, with her zine. Photo by Phoebe Chase.

Pratt, Home School of Architecture News
May 8, 2026

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The recipient of the SoA’s 2025 Bill Menking Travel Award, Isabel “Izzy” Lane (M.S. Urban and Community Planning ’26) traveled to Montreal to research urban agricultural production and identify what New Yorkers can learn from our neighbors to the north about sustainable urban farming. The following is the zine she created to share her findings, entitled “Montreal: A Survey of Urban Agriculture.” You can view the zine below, and read some excerpts in this article. You can also download and print a copy — including folding instructions — here. (Editing and web production by SoA temporary content and archives manager Marina Fang.)

People have grown food in dense, urban spaces for as long as they have organized in cities. In the 1970s, when the Bronx was burning, residents reclaimed lots, hauled away junk, and repurposed the land into gardens. Community gardens endure in New York City today as meeting and teaching spaces, refuge areas for shade and rest, and sources of self-sufficiency and self-expression. What’s more, they feed people. Urban gardens are as wonderful as they are revolutionary.

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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-read-menking-award-winner-izzy-lanes-zine-on-urban-farming-in-montreal/


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