#urbanag — Public Fediverse posts

Frantically trying to plant the ugliest soil you have ever seen with nothing but cover crops, radishes, a shovel, and duck litter .--.

Future alley crop , currently a sandy pit ✨️

I cant even get the shovel past an inch , 😪 are there short season beans I can put here? How do I make sure the radish make it?

**#goose for scale ⚖️

Sandy loam , zone 5a #permaculture #foodsecurity #growyourown #gardening #soilhealth #ag #alternativeag #solarpunk #urbanag #cityfarm #lowtech #regenag

Pa. ag secretary tours Williamsport gardens tackling food insecurity | Community https://www.allforgardening.com/1878075/pa-ag-secretary-tours-williamsport-gardens-tackling-food-insecurity-community/ #AgricultureSecretary #BucknellInstituteForLifelongLearning #CommunityGardening #EvanWiles #FoodInsecurity #FoodProduction #FoodSecurity #garden #gardening #GeneYaw #JoanneStehr #JuniorLeague #LycomingCollege #LycomingCounty #RussellRedding #SalvationArmy #ShapiroAdministration #SidFurst #SustainableFoodSystem #upmc #UpmcWilliamsportHospital #UrbanAg #UrbanAgriculture #Williamsport

Peak harvest day at #yoloberryfarm. This weekend, I'll cut off last year's canes.

For Washington State boysenberry fans, Schuh Farms' season just started this week: https://eatboysenberries.org/#where-to-buy-boysenberries-in-washington

#urbanag #seattle

"Humanity is on a collision course with Planet Earth, and so far, we have not been able to address it...

A July, 2025 infographic, “Which Countries Produce Their Own Food?” ranked the world’s most self-sufficient countries in terms of the seven food groups. Remarkably, neither the US, Canada, US, Mexico, Great Britain, or European countries (except Spain and Greece) made the list.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-06-30/how-our-broken-food-system-is-driving-humanitys-collision-course-with-earth/

#FoodSecurity #Agriculture #Farming #Gardening #UrbanAg #Food #Water #Climate

The thing nobody wants to hear is that all communities need to make sure that they can feed their population year round from within 50 miles or so of their town. That means municipalities need to invest in urban greenhouses & agricultural projects, and lock in contracts for delivery - or they're going to run out of food.

That's the ugly truth. And time is running out.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-06-04/four-ways-to-build-a-food-system-that-can-withstand-collapse/

#Food #FoodSecurity #Agriculture #Farming #Gardening #UrbanAg #Community #Sustainability

Digging through urban agriculture with feminist theoretical implements

Mary Anne Martin

#UrbanAgriculture #SocialEconomy #FeministTheory #Community #FoodInitatives #UrbanAg #Ontario #Canada

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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/356

Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments

Gavin Schneider
Victoria Fast

#Climate #ClimateSmart #Food #UrbanAg #UrbanAgriculture #ClimateSmartAgriculture #GIS #ConstraintMapping

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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/242

The future of food is urban greenhouses and small family farms that use ages old conservation & regenerative soil practices. It's not factory farms of any kind. And anyone with a yard can do some gardening. Anyone with a sunny window or porch/balcony can grow herbs & spices and many greens. We need to be proactive about food security, starting at home. A neighborhood swap is a micro farmer's market, too.

The book: https://store.motherearthnews.com/pages/offer-mmeemq34?r=6433H6754001C5K

#Gardening #FoodSecurity #Food #UrbanAg #Homesteading

Mother Earth News
(Blast from the past for me...)

This video covers how to grow thriving root crops in pots. Learn how author John Moody grows up to 40 pounds of sweet potatoes in just a few square feet of containers: https://www.motherearthnews.com/videos/root-crop-container-growing-done-right-with-john-moody/

Even a balcony or shelves in front of a picture window can grow quite a bit of food, you know. Try it.

#FoodSecurity #UrbanAg #Gardening #ContainerGardening #ClimateCrisis #FoodShortages #Economics

"Because traditional methods of fermentation have evolved out of ancient practices, they do not require any electricity or fancy equipment. A few ingredients, some labor, and time are all that is needed. This makes them an important piece of the puzzle when envisioning a low-energy food system that centers on locality and seasonality away from the supply chains of big agribusiness."

Read the article: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-01-24/power-to-the-microbes-reclaiming-traditional-foods-for-a-degrowth-food-future/

#DeGrowth #FoodSecurity #Gardening #UrbanAg #Sustainability #Food

Dig into agriculture!

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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/search/index?query=Agriculture+&dateFromYear=&dateFromMonth=&dateFromDay=&dateToYear=&dateToMonth=&dateToDay=&authors=

#Agriculture #FoodStudies #CanAg #UrbanAg #FeministTheory #CommunitySupportedAgriculture #FoodSovereignty #GenerationalRenewal #TradeAgreements #Farmers #FoodPolicy #LiteratureReview #HigherEd

The University of Toronto Scarborough has recently made several bad decisions that are certain to have disastrous consequences for its truly excellent campus farm. The worst of these may be to have declined to renew the contract of the coordinator (full disclosure, she's my partner - she's poured her heart and soul into the project). The Environmental and Physical Science Students' Association has started a petition asking UTSC to reconsider.

https://www.change.org/p/urgent-save-dr-b%C3%A9atrice-lego?recruited_by_id=8cd136f0-960c-11ef-a0fa-e33f155465c9

#Toronto #UofT #UrbanAg

Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments

Gavin Schneider
Victoria Fast

#ClimateSmart #Food #ClimateSmartFood #UrbanAg #UrbanAgriculture #ClimateSmartAg #GIS #ConstraintMapping #Calgary

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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/242