City of Boston Plans to Develop Urban Agriculture

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When large urban centers begin allowing citizens to bring farming into the city limits, everyone benefits from better access to fresh, healthy, and locally grown foods.

This month, the city of Boston received a $25,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support an Urban Agriculture Visioning group, which will build on efforts to align Boston’s diverse urban gardening and farming sector, and establish a common goal that meets the needs of all stakeholders.

“Urban Agriculture creates jobs and food access points in Boston’s neighborhoods,” said Mayor Martin Walsh in a Sustainability City Network article. “Aligning the goals and strategies of all constituents engaged in urban growing will allow us to better leverage resources, and to work more efficiently toward food system resilience in the city of Boston.”

These meetings will include advocates from all sectors of urban growing in the city, including community gardeners, traditional and rooftop farmers, gleaners, edible forest developers, farmers’ market reps, food processors, and interested constituents.

What kinds of creative growing strategies will the group propose? Stay tuned!

Click here to visit the City of Boston’s Office of Food Initiatives website.