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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 1d

In addition to feeding kids, these measures would fund schools to buy food directly from Colorado farmers and ranchers and provide training and equipment to support making more school meals from scratch using fresh, local ingredients.

Colorado election 2025: Voters to decide two ballot measures on free school meals | Colorado Newsline

Without additional funding, Colorado will have to begin restricting free breakfast and lunch to low-income students and schools.

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 1d

" I just think NYC is a very fast-paced place. We’re built around energy, mobility, community and convenience, and people just don’t care enough." -- Steve Cohen, Columbia Climate School. #Urban Agriculture #Composting #CircularEconomy

NYC’s Composting Rates Are Low. A Sustainability Expert Thinks AI Will Offer a Solution. Eventually.

Steve Cohen, director of Columbia's M.S. in Sustainability Management program, discusses the present and future of food waste programs in NYC.

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm wondering what happened to all the food that was supposed to be used as food aid. Does anyone reading this know?
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 6d

Aiming for city-wide distribution to ensure no one is ever far from a food oasis. #UrbanFarming #EdibleLandscape #UrbanAgriculture #FoodForest

Denver’s Food Forests Provide Free Fruit While Greening the Environment

Despite federal roadblocks, an ambitious agroforestry program is feeding people, cleaning the air, and helping offset climate change.

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 7d

#UrbanAgriculture is not a matter of farming in a vacuum. Farms need to be part of a larger support system including suppliers, processors, distributors and customers. How about community canneries? Local gardeners benefit too. #Gardening
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Op-ed: Let’s Preserve Our Communities Through Canning Food

Community canneries can bring people together, encourage food sovereignty and healthy local food systems, and even mitigate climate change.

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 15d

Building a food system embedded in place. How a neighborhood restaurant pulled together farmers, neighbors, and the USDA to build a community food hub—and why ‘resilience’ was the magic word. #UrbanAgriculture #LocalFood #FoodSystems www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fs...

View of Local food system resilience in discourse and community practice

JAFSCD: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Publication of the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 19d

This is your chance to let the USDA know how they can help support #UrbanAgriculture and innovative production. Attend next Wednesday's meeting -- email a comment. More info here..
foodpolicyforclimateactivists.blog/2025/09/19/j...

Join the Discussion on Urban Agriculture Recommendations

At its September 17 meeting, the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Advisory Committee introduced five new recommendations to support urban agriculture. The Committee will revisit them—and…

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 20d

Here's a powerhouse statement on #FarmBill from
the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, including a small piece on #UrbanAgriculture. Read it and get up to speed speedily. sustainableagriculture.net/blog/septemb...

September in Washington, DC: FY26 Appropriations, Shutdown, and Farm Bill

In September 2025, Congress faces significant deadlines to avoid a government shutdown and fund the USDA, while also grappling with stalled efforts to pass a full farm bill, now nearly seven years ove...

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 22d

A #FoodCoop in Brooklyn inspires cities around the world. Beautiful things happen when we keep talking to each other! #UrbanAgriculture

Nikolas Kozloff @nikolaskozloff.bsky.social · 22d

Time for #ParkSlope Food Co-op inspiring #LaLouve #food #cooperative in #Paris which in turn inspired #LaOsa food cooperative in #Madrid
linewaitersgazette.com/2025/09/16/l... #nutrition #foodjustice #cooperatives

La Osa, A Madrid Food Coop Inspired by Our Own

September 16, 2025 By Kim Velsey In 2015, Madrid was caught up in the wave of progressive social change sweeping Europe and, after two decades of conservative rule, elected far-left mayoral candida…

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · 26d

I attended the first of 3 September meetings of UAIPAC Wednesday. The new chief of #NRCS spoke and was reassured about their continued support of #UrbanAg by the #USDA. For more info about UAIPAC, read my post. foodpolicyforclimateactivists.blog/2025/09/11/w...

Why the UAIPAC Matters for Urban Agriculture Today

Nobody loves a committee, right? But yesterday the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Advisory Committee (UAIPAC) held the first of three meetings for September, and I attended. I love thi…

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here's the link to the revised USDA page showing a September 30 deadline: www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you kept meaning to let the USDA know what you think of their reorganization plan but never got a round tuit, here's one here. #usda
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POLITICO Pro: USDA extends reorganization plan comment period to Sept. 30

The department's proposal to spread workforce to five regional hubs has drawn bipartisan criticism.

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Sep 2

The #USDA Urban Agriculture and Innovative Productions Advisory Committee is holding 3 meetings this month for the first time this year--a year's worth of meetings in one month. Show #UrbanAg some love. Attend a meeting. Make a comment, email or oral.
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Urban Agriculture Network - USDA

Urban Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · Aug 30

The North Coast Emergency Food System Partnership connects California’s food-system and emergency workers to feed people after devastating fires, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

Disasters Block Local Food Access. One Groundbreaking Group Has a Solution.

The North Coast Emergency Food System Partnership connects emergency and food professionals after fires, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Bees! Let’s hear it for urban biodiversity. #UrbanAg #Bees #CityPlanning

Citizen Portal News North Carolina @citizenptnewsnc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Rocky Mount is buzzing with change as the city considers new beekeeping regulations and social districts aimed at enhancing community life!

Click to read more!

#RockyMountNashCounty #NC #CitizenPortal #PublicSafety #CommunityEngagement #RockyMountBeeKeeping #UrbanAgriculture

Rocky Mount City Council Updates Bee Keeping Ordinance for Compliance with State Law

Council proposes amendments to allow beekeeping on various property types and ensure safety.

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Aug 26

More info, no paywall: www.facebook.com/JeffCohensDi...

Jeff Cohen Salem Ward 5 Councillor

Cuts to federal food programs threaten long-running efforts to combat hunger in one of the poorest corners of Massachusetts When Liz O’Gilvie returned to her hometown of Springfield in 2009, she...

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Advisory Committee advises the Secretary of Agriculture. It is meant to meet 3 times a year, but hasn't met at all this year. Now it's scheduled for 3 meetings in September. I'm registered! #UrbanAg #USDA
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Advisory Committee Meeting

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will hold three public meetings for the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Advisory Committee (UAIPAC). UAIPAC will discuss proposed recommen...

www.federalregister.gov

Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Zoom meeting September 17 from 1-2 PM Pacific Time.

We share what we're up to in our respective cities--lost a grant, starting a compost program, arranged for local farmers to meet their Congress member... Join the discussion! Meet urban ag enthusiasts.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Urban Agriculture Network. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

National Collaboration for Local Impact

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Small urban farms, like small urban markets, depend on a healthy community to thrive. We've got work to do if we want cities with vibrant local food systems! #UrbanAg #Gentrification #AsianHate #ICE #Crime #Healthcare
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An old-school Chinatown market tried hanging on. Assaults, raids, gentrification proved too much

After 18 years, Chinatown mainstay Yue Wa market announces its closure.

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · Aug 23

Op-ed: Public Grocery Stores Already Exist and Work Well. We Need More.

Government-run, nonprofit grocery systems can better respond to food-price inflation, corporate consolidation, and inequality.

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harryhayman.bsky.social @harryhayman.bsky.social · Aug 12

STOP. THE. PRESSES. 🚨 Philly’s own Christa Barfield aka #FarmerJawn is officially a 2025 Woman of Influence! From turning empty lots into thriving farms to proving Black women lead in ag, she’s growing food, justice, and the future. 🌱💪 #WomenOfInfluence #PhillyProud

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Urban Agriculture Network @nationaluan.bsky.social · Aug 17

Here's the start of another municipal composting program -- a pilot in Bristol, Rhode Island. #UrbanAg #Composting #ClimateCrisis #ZeroWaste #CircularEconomy #CutMethane

linzred.bsky.social @linzred.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bristol, Rhode Island making food scrap composting collection happen w @11thhourracing @blackearthcompost and @ericd
Grateful! #composting #blackearthcompost #ericd #11thhourracing #bristol,ri