Landscape architecture professor travels 18,000 kilometres across the North America to study urban agriculture

PHOTO BY KAREN LANDMAN. In Milwaukee, the Growing Power organization offers tours of its urban farm to give people, especially children, a chance to see where their food comes from.

Landscape architecture professor Karen Landman hits the road to see how people in Canada and the United States are bringing farming to the city

Yes in My Backyard

Prof. Karen Landman, Environmental Design and Rural Development, grew up on a dairy farm, but she says her father wouldn’t recognize as farmers the people she met this summer when she travelled more than 18,000 kilometres across the western United States and Canada to study urban agriculture. They were growing food commercially in the city. Read more at www.cityfarmer.info