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Links of general interest

City Farmer News: "News stories from 'Urban Agriculture News' "

Community Food Security Coalition, Portland, OR

Their 2002 report, "Urban Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United States: Farming from the Center City to the Urban Fringe" includes a section on overcoming challenges to urban agriculture.

Mecklenburg County Community Gardens

These are rental spaces for community. Rents are $25 for 20x20 plots at Reedy Creek Park, and $15 for 10x15 plots at Fraizer, Hoskins, Huntingtowne, McAlpine Creek and Winget Parks.

Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign, the public service program of the Garden Writers Association Foundation launched in 1995.

Slow Food Charlotte

"To provide the Charlotte region a place to connect, reclaiming food sources and palatial growth. Supporting food that is Good, Clean & Fair."

Composting classes

Mecklenburg Solid Waste's Basic Home Composting Workshops. Click for the schedule and sign-up details.

Programs elsewhere with educational components

City Slicker Farms, Oakland, Calif.

Since 2001, the nonprofit has created five plots, at least one bought at a tax sale in the distressed neighborhood. Since 2005 it has helped residents build backyard plots, and allowed them to barter their excess produce at community markets it runs.

A Wall Street Journal story says the nonprofit had a 2008 budget of $150,000.

Growing Home, Chicago, Ill.

Growing Power, Milwaukee, Wis.

The nonprofit created in 1999 by a former NBA player supports sustainable urban growing practices and training programs.

Here is a background story in Progress Illinois.

Jones Valley Urban Farm Project, Birmingham, Ala.

Heifer's Urban Agriculture projects

These items are listed by U.S. region.

Red Hook Community Farm, Brooklyn NY

Red Hook works with teens to encourage new leaders. It operates school-year and summer education programs, has a 2.75-acre urban farm on an old playground, operates two farmers markets and has revenue-generating partnerships with two restaurants.

Friendship Gardens Charlotte
Creating local, renewable nutritious food resources for meals-on-wheels recipients
An Initiative of Slow Food Charlotte and Friendship Trays, Inc.

Friendship Trays, 2401-A Distribution St. Charlotte, NC 28203 voice 704-333-9229 fax 704-333-5947
Meals-on-wheels in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC
Delivering, in a caring and friendly manner, balanced meals to individuals in this community
who are unable, because of age or infirmity, to obtain and prepare their own meal
Friendship Trays is a 501(c)(3) organization. Employer ID #56-1201496. Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license
are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2000. The license is not an endorsement by the State.