There are multiple benefits to urban farming. It helps the local economy, and it doesn’t take days or even weeks for the food to travel from the farms to the table. It is a great way to provide more fresh fruits and vegetables into inner-city neighborhoods where they are less likely to be found on the dinner table.
Here are five ways that you can support Urban Farming:
1. Visit your local farmer’s market. You may have to do your shopping on Saturday morning, but the variety that you will find and the freshness of the produce will be worth it.
2. Pick your own fruit at local farms and make homemade jam, applesauce, or preserves.
3. Start a community garden. Turn a blighted empty lot or a patch of lawn into a place of life that can bring the neighborhood together and provide better nutrition too.
4. Plant your own backyard organic gardening.
5. Go out to eat at restaurants that use locally grown produce. You would probably be supporting a local entrepreneur and not a chain restaurant.
Plan to grow your own backyard or community garden build your own urban farming, seek out those restaurants that serve local produce. Your taste buds will thank you.
