Illustration: Carin Goldberg in Wired magazine.

(You know urban agriculture has gone mainstream when it is written about in the premier high-tech magazine. Mike)

By Clive Thompson
Wired Magazine 08.18.08

But what I love most here is the potential for cultural transformation. Growing our own food again would reconnect us to this country’s languishing frontier spirit.

Once you realize how easy it is to make the concrete jungle bloom, it changes the way you see the world. Urban environments suddenly appear weirdly dead and wasteful. When I walk around New York City now, I see the usual empty lots and balconies and I think, Wait a minute. Why aren’t we growing food here? And here? And here?

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Photo: The RUAF partners meeting in Doorn, The Netherlands, for their annual meeting.

The RUAF (Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) publishes this excellent magazine periodically. In their 19th issue, read stories about:

Cleaning, Greening and Feeding Cities; Local Initiatives in Recycling Waste for Urban Agriculture in Kampala, Uganda

Urban Agriculture in Msunduzi Municipality, South Africa

Solid Waste Recycling in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Making a business of waste management

Enhancing Local Knowledge in Urban Livestock Breeding in Bukavu, D.R. Congo

Innovations in Producer-Market Linkages: Urban field schools and organic markets in Lima

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