BELTSVILLE, Md. — The University of the District of Columbia is aiming to tackle a number of urban environmental and health challenges through agriculture education targeting for small city spaces.

an environmental scientist at Lancaster University and lead author of the study, published today in AGU's journal Earth's Future. The new study compiles studies on urban agriculture from 53 ...

a plant biologist and head of the Urban Farming Group at Harper Adams University in the UK. "There's no organic matter, there's nothing else for the plant to compete with or to extract the water ...

Farmers and gardeners at 73 urban agriculture sites in France, Germany, Poland, the UK and the US participated as citizen scientists in the research led by scientists at the University of Michigan ...

There are plans to build an outdoor kitchen classroom, with a focus on encouraging self-sustainable farming in an urban setting. Students from Morgan State University’s School of Architecture ...

Farmhouse at Roger’s Gardens Chef Rich Mead joined eight other chefs in creating an outdoor feast from locally ... $300,000 to help Solutions for Urban Agriculture’s efforts to fight food ...

As urban populations grow ... Unlike the unpredictable weather of outdoor farming, growing indoors allows farmers to tailor conditions to maximize growth. With the proper technology, farming ...

Orlando Science Center is partnering with 4Roots Farm to host a series of summer camps on urban farming, sustainability, ...

Brad McNamara, a co-founder of Freight Farms, graduated from Clark University in Worcester in 2013 and later helped bring one of the company’s containers to the school. Freight Farm’s Greenery ...

but the whole city could be fed by also farming land within a short distance of the urban area. Matt Boyd of Adapt Research Ltd, New Zealand, and Nick Wilson of the University of Otago ...

Inside, Most Tahera Naznin, an associate professor of urban and indoor agriculture at the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources, carefully examines a ...