I've been doing an occasional email on City Agriculture links that I come across navigating the online infosphere for a couple of years now. Every few weeks there are enough links to warrant an email to the City Ag mailing list. This one is a little larger than usual.
If you're interested, contact me and I'll add you to the mailing list.
Atlanta homeless shelter rooftop farm
http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/...
City trees and health mapping app from Portland State University, funded by the U.S. Forest Service
http://map.treesandhealth.org
Urban Permablitz
https://www.youtube.com/...
2nd Annual Food+City Challenge Prize (formerly known as the Food Lab at The University of Texas) open to anyone, anywhere with a great idea that will improve how our food system operates. Submissions open Tues, 9/1 and run through 10/15. Go to
http://www.foodandcity.org/...
SF's Neighborhood Vineyard Project
http://www.theguardian.com/...
The Cannery in Davis, CA - a farm to table community development
http://livecannerydavis.com
Sustainable restaurant on a rooftop farm in Copenhagen
http://www.treehugger.com/...
http://www.cleansimplelocal.com
Re-Nuble - urban metabollism and local food
http://cleantechnica.com/...
http://www.re-nuble.com/
Pop-up urban farm in Norway
http://www.growlab.no/...
Plant This Movie - urban farming around the world, from the incredible story of Havana, Cuba to communities of urban farmers in cities as diverse as Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, London, and Lima. In the US, the story focuses on New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. The film is narrated by Daryl Hannah.
http://www.plantthismovie.com
The last decade of urban agriculture in Detroit
http://www.modeldmedia.com/...
Cook County Jail flower garden
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Can cities feed themselves? Estimates are that 15 percent of all food in the United States is produced in a metropolitan area
http://www.agprofessional.com/...
https://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/... - study by OHIO AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER shows that "by using just 80 percent of the vacant land in Cleveland, producers could grow 50 percent of the fruits and vegetables, 25 percent of the poultry and eggs, and 100 percent of the honey that the city consumes..."
GrowOnUs floating garden for food and phytoremediation on Gowanus Canal
http://inhabitat.com/...
Research study on Chicago gardens and gentrification
http://community.bowdoin.edu/...
Short history of Detroit urban agriculture system
http://www.modeldmedia.com/...
Urban farmers around the world
http://www.theguardian.com/...
All the former City Agriculture links I've collected from July 9, 2013 on are archived at
http://cityag.blogspot.com/...