Kindergarten students at work on their tiny victory garden plots at the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School Garden, Cleveland, May 1942

Urban Agriculture in Ohio

Posted City Club Podcasts
August 3, 2010

Speakers:
Robert J. Boggs, Director, Ohio Department of Agriculture;

Ifeoma Ezepue, Business Development Officer, Cleveland Department of Economic Development;

Graham Ford Veysey, Ohio City Near West Development Corporation;

Peter McDermott, Network Weaver, Entrepreneurs for Sustainability, “Local Food Cleveland;”

They speak about Growing Cleveland: Market Gardens, Urban Farms and Economic Development. Moderated by Dan Moulthrop.

Link to the one hour discussion here.

News video of three rooftops

Video courtesy of AFP
via the Wall Street Journal
8/3/2010

In a city crunched for space, New York residents and companies are transforming their rooftops into mini-farms where they grow vegetables, keep bees and raise plants to cleanse the air.

Link here.