Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword - Will Allen
Section 1. Introduction and Historical Antecedents
1. Cities of Farmers: Problems, Possibilities, and Processes of Producing Food in Cities - Julie Dawson and Alfonso Morales
2. Food from Scratch for the Zenith of the Unsalted Seas: Creating a Local Food System in Early-Twentieth-Century Duluth, Minnesota - Randel D. Hanson
3. Municipal Housekeepers and the High Cost of Living: The Establishment of Gardening Programs and Farmers Markets by Grand Rapids Women’s Clubs in the Early Twentieth Century - Jayson Otto
Section 2. Regulation
4. Urban Ag’ in the ’Burbs - Megan Horst, Catherine Brinkley, and Kara Martin
5. Cultivating in Cascadia: Urban-Agriculture Policy and Practice in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver - Nathan McClintock and Michael Simpson
6. Urban Agriculture: Composting - Lauren Suerth
Section 3. Production
7. Agroecology of Urban Farming - Erin Silva and Anne Pfeiffer
8. Lessons from “The Bucket Brigade”: The Role of Urban Gardening in Native American Cultural Continuance - Michèle Companion
9. Foregrounding Community Building in Community Food Security: A Case Study of the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market and Esperanza Garden - Laura Lawson, Luke Drake, and Nurgul Fitzgerald
10. Fumbling for Community in a Brooklyn Community Garden - Dory Thrasher
Section 4. Distribution
11. Food Hubs: Expanding Local Food to Urban Consumers - Becca B. R. Jablonski and Todd M. Schmit
12. Chicago Marketplaces: Advancing Access to Healthy Food - Anne Roubal and Alfonso Morales
Section 5. Community Health and Policy Perspectives
13. The Coevolution of Urban-Agriculture Practice, Planning, and Policy - Nevin Cohen and Katinka Wijsman
14. Urban Agriculture and Health: What Is Known, What Is Possible? - Benjamin W. Chrisinger and Sheila Golden
15. More Than the Sum of Their Parts: An Exploration of the Connective and Facilitative Functions of Food Policy Councils - Lindsey Day Farnsworth
16. Embedding Food Systems into the Built Environment - Janine de la Salle
Conclusion
References
Index