How Urban Agriculture is transforming the Cities.
Urban agriculture is the practice of growing or producing food in urban spaces. It involves mostly animal husbandry, aquaculture agroforestry, horticulture, and beekeeping.
Practicing urban agriculture comes with its benefits: production of an abundance of organic, locally grown food, the potential of becoming a global green evolution, improving the economy, sustainability, and health of our urban communities.
The exception to the city of Detroit, which is famous knows for urban agriculture. Other cities practice too, and examples are Dallas, California, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
Listening to Ron Finley from southern Los Angeles plants vegetable garden because his neighbor our suffering from dietetic diseases saying that food was the problem and the solution is the same food. Through Green Ground, a grassroots organization educate the community importance of organic gardening practices, ways to prepare food from the garden, and other benefits of gardening and nature.
Besides the above point, Daron Babcock, Executive director of Bonton Farms in Dallas city, expresses how urban agriculture is changing people’s lives through creating employment through planting gardens and to grow their own food. Listening to two people who have gone through the training and empowerment program on Bonton Farm, Tasha says that the organization fixed her problem by empowering her. Patrick says the farm gives him peace of mind while doing farming.
Also, in California, which Kelly Carlislework with Acta Non Verba Oakland, CA, an organization that talks about dropping out children, is planting a different kind of plant, and they have opened a personal account, and the community is happy about it.
Therefore urban agriculture has played a big role in empowering young and old generations in the different cities globally, and organics farming practiced on those farms becoming the solution to diabetic diseases.