University of Nebraska Extension Service creates urban agriculture website

New Website Aimed At Helping Urban Agriculture

By Dan Moser
IANR News Service
May 31, 2011

Excerpt:

Ask five people to define “urban agriculture,” and you’ll likely get five different answers. It’s community gardening, economic development and an interest in locally grown foods. It’s education, green-thumb therapy and family togetherness. And more.

However one defines it, urban agriculture has emerged as a movement in American cities. It has a special place in a state such as Nebraska, where agriculture is still the number one industry even though increasing numbers of people have no direct tie to it, say University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension experts.

UNL Extension has created a new website that pulls together a variety of resources. The website defines urban agriculture as “the practice of producing food within or surrounding an urban area, including farms (large and small), community gardens and backyard gardens.”

“There is a growing interest in food production by home gardeners or by small veggie producers in and around urban areas that provide food through farmer’s markets,” said Sarah Browning, extension educator based in Lincoln.

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