SPEC: Food Safety and Security Group

healthy cities are our future

Urban Agriculture

[last updated: Aug 15/09]

What is it?

It is the "growing, processing and distribution
of food and other products through intensive
plant cultivation and animal husbandry in
and around cities" (Brown 2003; qtd. in
Kaethler 2006)

What can it look like?

• your balcony tomatoes


• the neighbour? hobby greenhouse


• the local school? garden


• the bustling farmer? market in your local church? parking lot


• the herb garden on the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel? green roof


• vegetable plots in your neighborhood community garden

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