What is Urban Ag?
For the purposes of this project, “Urban Agriculture” has been broadly defined to include any of the following practices, purposes, and locations.
Practices:

Gardening

Farming

Animal Husbandry

Beekeeping

Aquaculture

Agroforestry

Orchards & Fruit Trees

Composting

Permaculture & Food Forests

Water Harvesting & Conservation

Artistic and/or Cultural Expression Related to Agriculture

Farmers’ Markets & CSAs

Mobile Farmers’ Markets

Garden Stands

Food Cooperatives

Commercial Kitchens for Local Food Production

Food Trucks (serving local food)
Purposes:
Combined with the intent to prove one or more of the following benefits or purposes:
- food production, processing and/or distribution
- herbal and medicinal production
- therapy
- community building
- urban wildlife habitat enhancement
- demonstration and education
- community health and nutrition
- cultural enrichment
- local economic development
Locations:
Spaces for urban agriculture can be located, but are not limited to the following publicly and privately owned landscape types:
- residential yards
- public parks and open space
- parking lots
- vacant lots
- alleyways
- Right-of-way landscape areas such as parkways and medians
- school grounds
- rooftops
- balconies
- vertical surfaces (walls)
- interior spaces such as greenhouses and/or hoophouses
- drainage areas / ponds
- vehicles for mobile markets, food trucks, other related services
Urban Ag in Action
The map below shows the existing gardens at Albuquerque Public School facilities. Also check out the Falling Fruit map, which has locations of fruit trees around the world!