Landscapes Blog

May 30, 2015

Urban farming is booming, but what does it really yield?

Elizabeth Royte

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Ensia.com. The benefits of city-based agriculture go far beyond nutrition. Midway through spring, the nearly bare planting beds of Carolyn Leadley’s Rising Pheasant Farms, in the Poletown neighborhood of Detroit, barely foreshadow the cornucopian abundance to come. It will be many months before Leadley is selling produce f ...
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