HarvestGeek - a kickstarter project aimed at urban farmers.
of course there are always agricultural extension agents who can help. I've seen these in action in places like Brooklyn and San Francisco...
At the home level Mark Bittman calls for allowing people to turn lawns into gardens - a practice prohibited in many areas.
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In any case there’s little question that a stronger kitchen garden movement would both produce better food and put more of us in touch with where food really comes from, and how. Michelle Obama was not the first First Lady to plant a garden; Eleanor Roosevelt did it in 1943, when 20 million “victory” gardens (out of a population of only 135 million people), produced 40 percent of our fruits and vegetables. I recognize that it will take a near-apocalypse to see those kinds of numbers again, I recognize that turning lawns into gardens isn’t a panacea, but I also recognize that hounding people for growing vegetables in their front yards is hardly the American way.
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