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Urban farming

A person holds a basket of garden produce
Center for a Livable Future
Safe levels of metals found in Baltimore farms and gardens
Published June 8, 2021
Urban-grown produce was found to have levels of metals comparable to samples from grocery chains and farmers markets, suggesting they are as safe to consume as store- and market-bought produce
Cathrine Sneed
Community-building
Insights from a prison garden pioneer
Published May 4, 2018
Cathrine Sneed, founder of The Garden Project in San Francisco, discusses the redemptive power of gardening
Rows of green plants sprout at aquaponics lab
Urban farming
New fishy business plan
Published July 18, 2016
JHU's aquaponics testing ground gives way to urban teaching farm
Farm to corner
Published Aug 5, 2015
Pilot study pairing Baltimore corner stores with urban farmers produces encouraging results / Hopkins Medicine