Remarks about Jac Smit by Jerry Kaufman at the Minneapolis APA conference session, April 27, 2009, on Urban Agriculture’s Future.

Jac Smit was one of the founders of the urban agriculture movement; some even consider him to be the father of the urban agriculture movement. In his absence from this panel today, I would like to honor him by telling you a bit about him and sharing with you some of his thoughts about the future of urban agriculture. When I learned he was terminally ill a few weeks ago, I spoke to him by phone. I said I wanted to bring some of his views about the future of urban agriculture to the APA conference audience at this session. He was pleased to have me do so.

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