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Seattle Parks Foundation. "Urban Farming in Rainier Beach" (PDF). Connections. Seattle Parks Foundation; Sudermann, Hannelore. "The Roots of Tilth". Washington State Magazine. Washington State University; Sullivan, Daniel (January 27, 2005). "Time for Change". The New Farm. Rodale Institute
Two women tending plants at Marra Farm. Marra Farm, a 4-acre (1.6 ha) plot of land in Marra-Desimone Park, South Park, Seattle, Washington is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle city limits that retains an agricultural use today; the other is Picardo Farm. [1] [2]
Center for Urban Agriculture(2007) - conceptual design of an off-grid 318-unit multi family building that is energy and water self-sufficient by utilizing on site greenhouses, rooftop gardens, a chicken farm, and areas for growing vegetables and grains. The design exercise won "Best of Show", lauded as "most visionary" in the Cascadia Region ...
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Urban farming serves as one type of green space in urban areas, it has a positive impact on the air quality in the surrounding area. A case study conducted on a rooftop farm shows the PM2.5 concentration in the urban farming area is 7–33% lower than the surrounding parts without green spaces in a city. [128]
Of those, over 32% were found in the Northeast, more than 26% in the South, 22% in the West, and less than 19% in the Midwest. The survey found that most urban farms in the United States are structured as either non-profit or solely owned. Urban farms typically use techniques that allow them to produce intensively on a small land.
Darian Davis, co-founder of The Kansas City Urban Farm Co-Op, started his farm in 2016 because he wanted to create a place where residents could work together to grow their own food and become ...
Picardo Farm is a 98,000 sq ft (9,100 m 2) parcel of property in Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington, consisting largely of 281 plots used for gardening allotments. [1] It is the original P-Patch (the local term for such community gardens): the "P" originally stood for "Picardo", after the family who owned it. [ 2 ]