Urban Farming 7 May 2008

The New York Times has a nice piece today on urban agriculture, focusing particularly on market farmers who are growing their crops in the New York City area. (The online version also has a slide show.)

Here are some resources here in the metro Boston area:

• The Food Project in Lincoln, Dorchester, and Lynn
• ReVision House Urban Farm in Dorchester
• The Farm School in Athol
• Boston Natural Areas Network, which organizes community gardens, amongst other things
  
• New Entry Sustainable Farming Project via Tufts University
• Massachusetts’ Farmers’ Markets 2008
• NOFA Massachusetts’ Organic Food Guide 2007-08 (available online and in hard copy). This page also has a downloadable file, Local Availability and Suggested Food Preservation Guide (PDF).

And here is a really nice longer article (2007) from the magazine In These Times about urban farming in the US.