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Urban Farming at its FinestUrbam Farms Coming to Cincinnati

Posted by Dave on Monday, 23 Feb 2009

The Living Cincinnati blog brings news that urban farming is coming to Cincinnati:

Well it turns out that City Council last week finally passed a plan for mini-farms. What is a mini farm or an urban farm? Well, its exactly what it sounds like: a small farm in an urban setting. Why you ask? Well, there is always a question of what to do with some of the vacant unusable city plots of land. Most of them are unbuildable plots and just sit vacant and uncared for. Many major cities have started using these plats as small gardens and farms for city dwellers. The exact details will be worked out in the next month. City officials must decide how to lease the plots, and whether to charge anything. Lets hope they don’t. Bring back the victory gardens of WWI & WWII.

Click Here to read the blog post

Click Here to read the article in the Cincinnati Enquirer


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