ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The Rochester Urban Agriculture Spring Conference was held at East High School on Saturday. The annual conference is held as part of efforts to combat food insecurity in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Urban agriculture is emerging as a key player in the search to develop sustainable cities, offering not just fresh produce but a ...

House appropriators are once again targeting the Agriculture Department’s urban farming program. Federal efforts to expand agriculture in urban areas are facing a fight for survival in the coming ...

Tuskegee University's urban farm helps Montgomery residents in a food desert grow their own food and access fresh produce.

Chapters of FFA, once called Future Farmers of America, are becoming more common in city schools. Program advisors say ...

San Francisco nonprofit Farming Hope helps people facing homelessness gain skills through urban farming cooking and community meals.

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In limbo since January, a federal advisory panel suddenly met three times in September — and pushed back against Trump administration policy moves. Faced with a White House that doesn’t care much for ...

Andrea Reynosa’s “John Street Pasture,” a public project at 1 John Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, in collaboration with Brooklyn Grange, Alloy, & Smack Mellon (photograph by Etienne Frossard, courtesy of ...

Will Allen is a former professional basketball player, but after his hooping days ended, he decided to trade the court for crops. Allen is credited with being a pioneer in the world of urban ...

For many city residents, growing food at home has long felt like a luxury reserved for houses with gardens and backyards. But at SMDC Nature’s Vine Residences, residents recently discovered that ...

Urban agriculture is emerging as a key player in the search to develop sustainable cities, offering not just fresh produce but a portfolio of ecosystem services that can extend far beyond the farm and ...