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How the Next Generation of Farmers is Getting Creative with Land Access

Modern Farmer

Check out our companion piece: How to Start a Backyard or Urban Farm—Whether You Own Land or Not As a renter millennial, I wanted to start farming. This is a common sentiment among many student-loan-saddled millennials and Gen Z-ers who want to work with the land but don’t have land that they own to start gardening or farming.

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Congress Puts Federal Support for Urban Farming on the Chopping Block

Civil Eats

At the top of a gradual slope, Falani Spivey leaned on a shovel as she pointed to several rows of malagueta and Carolina reaper peppers and described the salad greens she planned to plant for fall harvesting. While lawmakers authorized $25 million annually in the 2018 Farm Bill, Congress must reallocate the money each year.

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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

CONTENT SOURCED FROM WIRED November 23, 2022 Jennifer Bousselot has had one hell of a summer harvest. The garden, atop a building near the Denver Coliseum, was purpose-built for Bousselot’s brand of research in an up-and-coming scientific field: rooftop farming.

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What It Takes to Develop a Successful AgriHood

Agritecture Blog

CONTENT SOURCED FROM BUILDER Written by: Symone Strong April 14, 2023 Meristem Communities' Clayton Garrett explains the idea behind Indigo, a community built around a human-scale working farm and pasture. Garrett: Meristem Communities is a Houston-based real estate development company that was established in 2021.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. After finishing college seven years ago, the “video gam- playing, beer-drinking kid” dusted off a section of his parents’ Long Island cellar to launch his micro farm.