NYT > Urban Agriculture

Looking at demographic data can help us assess the opportunities and challenges of the coming decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/business/dealbook/future-society-demographics.html

An ice company’s wastewater can feed a produce garden. Spent grain from a brewery goes to compost. Local, shared, recycled. Welcome to the future of food.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/climate/circular-food-economy-sustainable.html

Organic retail farming is popping up in cities around the world, from Melbourne to Tel Aviv to Paris and beyond.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/style/rooftop-gardens-urban-shopping-scene-green.html

How a 21st-century Detroit navigates the dangers of regeneration is a particularly poignant question on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit race riots.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/travel/detroit-michigan-downtown.html

AeroFarms is a farming company that grows produce indoors without sun, soil or pesticides. In this 360° video, step inside one of its vertical farms, which grows kale, arugula and other greens i...

https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000005080478/aerofarm-vertical-newark.html

The city’s expanding network of 553 community gardens is a refuge for immigrants and others in the summer, and a source of fresh fruits and vegetables.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/food-from-around-the-world-homegrown-in-new-york.html

A 26-year-old farmer grows 50 types of produce in the courtyard of a new rental complex.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/realestate/a-staten-island-urban-farmer.html

Cities are undertaking groundbreaking projects to remake themselves physically, culturally and economically.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/21/us/innovation-us-cities.html

Advocates of vertical farming, in high-rise urban buildings, believe that the economics of the business will prove viable. But skepticism abounds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/business/energy-environment/farms-that-rise-to-the-challenge.html

About 15 years ago, a group of cabdrivers started an urban farm in the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood. They grow corn, beans and tomatoes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/nyregion/these-new-york-city-cabbies-pass-their-time-as-urban-farmers.html