In June, I attended a meeting at Cambridge City Hall about urban agriculture with some of the City Councillors. Boston has been publicly debating zoning and regulation for urban farming, commercial food production in the city, throughout the last year. Somerville, MA has already developed its own rules and regs:
Somerville MA ABCs (Agriculture Bees Chickens) of Urban Agriculture http://www.somervillema.gov/...
Somerville Urban Ag Blog http://somervilleurbanag.tumblr.com
Commercial rooftop, backyard, and basement farming is happening in cities all over the world.
Tokyo vertical gardens http://tokyo-diy-gardening.org/...
Rooftop gardens in Beijing and Hong Kong http://www.theperennialplate.com/...
Hong Kong rooftop garden (in Chinese) http://www.cityfarm.hk/
Vertical forest in Milan, Italy nears completion http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/...
Green Up rooftops http://www.avatar-architettura.it
Harvest geek or internet of things for your garden http://www.kickstarter.com/...
Urban beehive design http://design-milk.com/...
Asheville, NC urban farm school http://ashevillage.org/...
FutureTech Farm: modular farm, "like Farmville with real plants" http://seedstock.com/...
https://www.facebook.com/...
Mapping available public lots in NYC and helping groups begin projects on them http://596acres.org
Melbourne mobile air gardens http://inhabitat.com/...
Tokyo business building grows food for employees on green walls http://inhabitat.com/...
Vertical forest office building in Vietnam http://inhabitat.com/...
Affordable apartments with rooftop farm in the Bronx http://inhabitat.com/...
Urban farming units, greenhouses in containers http://inhabitat.com/...
London's Elephant and Castle Urban Forest http://elephantandcastleurbanforest.com
Allston/Brighton, MA apartment with gardens instead of parking lots http://boingboing.net/...
Prefab farm and retail food store http://www.thefarmery.com
Red Hook, NY one acre farm http://added-value.org
Strasbourg, France green walled building microclimate proposal http://www.mvrdv.nl/...
Previous diaries:
Eating the City and Town: Todmorden and Beyond
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Local Food Network: Cambridge, MA
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems
http://www.dailykos.com/...
How to Heal the World
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Urban Fruit Harvesting
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Community Gardens as Permaculture Nurseries
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Growing Green in the City
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Celebrate Gleaning with the Boston Area Farm Gleaning Project
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Urban Permaculture: Chicken Coop Grapevine and Water Footprint
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Raspberry Gobble
http://www.dailykos.com/...
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
http://www.dailykos.com/...