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Five Borough Farm: Seeding the future of urban agriculture in NYC 
Five Borough Farm, a Design Trust for Public Space project conducted in partnership with Added Value, offers a roadmap to farmers and gardeners, City officials, and other stakeholders to understand and weigh the benefits of urban agriculture, and mak...
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The State of Municipal Sustainable Procurement in Canada
This report looks at the state of sustainable procurement among Canadian municipalities. It uncovers what’s needed to tap into the full potential of this market-shifting opportunity. It is produced by the Municipal Collaboration for Sustainable...
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Good Laws, Good Food: Putting Local Food Policy to Work for Our Communities
Good Laws, Good Food: Putting Local Food Policy to Work for Our Communities was formulated in response to the recent growth in the number of new local food policy councils, with these food policy councils intended as our main audience. However, this ...
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Cutting Through the Red Tape: A Resource Guide for Local Food Policy Practitioners & Organizers
This document is organized with policies and tools for each area of the food system: production, processing, distribution, consumption, and food waste recovery. The types of actions that are highlighted consist of city‐level ordinances and zoni...
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Investing in Healthy, Sustainable Places through Urban Agriculture
Cities coping with vacant land, food insecurity, and poor food access are increasingly turning to urban agriculture to overcome these and other problems. Authored by Kimberley Hodgson, this paper guides funders from urban agriculture's beginnings to ...
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US EPA Urban Agriculture & Improving Local, Sustainable Food Systems
This website provides information for people pursuing agriculture projects as a part of brownfield redevelopment and reuse.
Before a property can be redeveloped, contaminants must be removed, capped or contained in ways that limit exposure risks. ...
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Fork It Over! food donation
Fork It Over! is Metro's food donation program to reduce hunger and waste in the Portland metropolitan area. Join the many area businesses that have committed to reducing waste and fighting hunger....
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Seed and Cycle: Urban Agriculture and Compost Design
We believe that anyone who wants to become an urban farmer, every architect and urban planner that wants to incorporate urban agriculture into their plans, every neighborhood that wants to stop throwing away their waste, every teacher that wants to t...
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Solutions from Above: Using Rooftop Agriculture to Move Cities Toward Sustainability
Cities present many opportunities to improve socio-ecological sustainability through efficiencies of scale and access to resources and services. These benefits are often compromised by rapidly increasing urban populations demanding energy, water, re...
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Growing food in the city
This guide and the links below will help beginners start gardening, and experienced gardeners learn more. You can grow healthy food for your family, share the learning with children and neighbors, and have fun growing! [Seattle Public Utilities]...
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Guide to Setting Up and Managing a Community Orchard
About two thirds of Britain's orchards have been lost since 1960. Many of these orchards have been destroyed and replanted with cereals or ousted by new development from roads to housing. At Chichester District Council we consider the regeneration...
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Ground Rules: A Legal Toolkit for Community Gardens (US)
Community gardens offer a place where residents can gather to grow fresh foods, socialize with neighbors, and get a little exercise. In many communities, individuals or other private entities (including nonprofit organizations) own land that could ...
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American Community Gardening Association
The Mission of the American Community Gardening Association is to build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening and greening across the United States and Canada....
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Assessing the San Diego County Food System
As communities around the country begin to observe and acknowledge the far reaching impacts of our current food system, interest in connecting the dots by way of comprehensive local food system assessments has increased. Through these studies, commun...
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Bringing health to the planning table - promising practices in Canada and abroad
This report profiles case studies of 13 Canadian communities where collaborative approaches to improve health outcomes have been a key consideration in planning decisions related to the built environment. This focus was chosen so that the succe...
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The Local Food Revolution
The book offers an unblinking look at how life in rural communities is being disrupted, the pressures on the family farm, and the steadily increasing sprawl of urban centres into green lands. Attention then turns to the shifts in the economy and t...
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Growing Food Locally: Integrating Agriculture Into the Built Environment
Most American cities have a lot of vacant land. A 2000 study by the Brookings Institution, Vacant Land in Cities: An Urban Resource, reported that 70 major American cities averaged 15% vacant land area. Geographically, cities in the South had the...
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From Farm to Fork: A Guide to Building North Carolina’s Sustainable Local Food Economy
The Guide identifies nine challenges North Carolina must address to succeed, and recommends a variety of actions that can be implemented at the state and local level, starting with 11 “game changers” that are actionable within two yea...
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The Open Source Urban Farm
Refarm the City is a new wiki and a blog that seeks to provide open software and hardware for urban farmers. Want to design an urban farm? Refarm the City is building a tool for that....
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Creating healthy urban environments for all: Food
In support of the Urban Agriculture campaign, the City today launched in interactive web portal including a calendar highlighting local events related to urban agriculture and activities, information and resources available, and links to many organiz...
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