Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture
Market Gardens
Maurice Small of New Agrarian Center: City Fresh
Foods (second from left) at EcoVillage Community
Garden demonstrates how use a trellis to support
vegetable plants. Market Gardener Barbara
Strauss is third from right. View image
Chickens being raised in the City of Cleveland by Herban Ninjas market gardeners, at Gather 'round Farm, May, 2008. View image.
EcoVillage market gardeners, Barbara Strauss, Marilynn Bronson, John and Olivia Yokie, in Cleveland, Ohio display their produce for sale, July 2007. View image.
The local foods movement has inspired entrepreneurs to raise and sell food and agricultural products from small plots or farms in urban areas. Ohio State University Extension, Cuyahoga County offers an intensive twelve week training program to equip educate urban farmers in northeast Ohio.
By 2008, over 20 “farms”, one beekeeping enterprise, several farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture , (CSA) programs were established in the city. The New Agrarian Center (NAC), located in Oberlin, Ohio partners with OSU Extension to market locally produced food through the City Fresh program.
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Carl Skalak and friend at Blue Pike Farm, 900 E. 72nd St, the first farm started in Cleveland proper in the 21st Century. View image.