Urban Farm

• Ottawa gardeners are findings ways to bring sustainability to their urban spaces

  As food prices continue to climb, more people are also turning their love for gardening into a way to save money.

  Canada

  Jan 21, 2023
  
• Quebec’s first urban fish farm set to make a splash in Montreal with Arctic char

  Situated in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough in the basement of an Urban Agriculture Coop building are some 50,000 small Arctic char, swimming around and slowly growing in size.

  Environment

  Mar 28, 2022
  
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• Edmonton Urban Farm expansion helps feed dozens of families

  An expansion to an urban farm is establishing some important roots in Edmonton. The farm is helping feed dozens of families at no cost to them.

  Education

  Sep 16, 2021
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• Common Roots hosts 9th annual pumpkin smash to end growing season

  “With distancing in place, we can still smash pumpkins and take home delicious food,” says the urban farm.

  Consumer

  Nov 1, 2020
• Get to know your local farmer: Edmonton Valley Zoo exhibit offers agricultural connection

  You don't have to take a trip to the farm to teach your little ones about where their food comes from.

  Canada

  Feb 11, 2020
• Etobicoke backyard farm joins growing GTA trend, supports fight against climate change

  An Etobicoke man quit his IT job to start a backyard farm -- all part of a growing trend of urban farms popping up in the GTA.

  Canada

  Aug 26, 2019
• Halifax’s Common Roots Urban Farm to have new home after HRM vote

  Halifax Regional Council passed a motion on Tuesday that will ultimately move the urban farm to the Bi-Hi Park, located near Bicentennial Drive and Bayers Road.

  Politics

  Mar 5, 2019
• Urban farm finds new home in southeast Calgary

  Grow Calgary, an urban farm providing produce to various social agencies, has found a new home after the province asked the operation to make way for ring road construction.

  Canada

  Feb 6, 2019
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• Pumpkin smashing a good way to mark end of Halifax’s Common Roots Urban Farm

  The urban farm has until April 2019 to find a new home, as their current location will become part of the Halifax Infirmary expansion and QE11 Health Sciences Centre New Generation Project.

  Environment

  Nov 4, 2018
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• Two-year-old with a green thumb grows garden in Halifax

  A Halifax grandmother passes her green thumb on to her two-year-old granddaughter.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2016