Urban Gardens for All Kinds of City Lots Shared via AddThis
A phenomena is growing in this country --One's need for fresh food! There are many ways to achieve these goals. This article gives many simple examples.
Then it is my priviledge to introduce a wonderful book Metro Farm by Michael Olson. I have copied the review of this book from his web site. METRO FARM
According to a recent Census of Agriculture, the most productive farmland in the United States is in the Borough of the Bronx! The second most productive farmland is in the City of San Francisco! You can earn up to eight times the average personal income on as little as one acre of land. You can be male or female, old or young, married or single. You can lease, own, or rent. You can succeed with small fruits on prairie beach lands, house plants in costal valleys, flowers on steep wooded hillsides, vegetables in city greenbelts and ornamentals in neighborhoods of million dollar homes.
The logic behind metrofarming is inescapable. Decades of sustained assault from policy-makers and vested interests have left the family farm hovering near extinction, the corporate farm ascendent, and a way of life imperiled. So the small-scale farmer must bring exceptional resourcefulness to bear on the problem of finding a viable niche in which to operate and ecological space where he or she can survive and prosper. Cities are where the money is, and city dwellers are clamoring for clean food in growing numbers.
As new-fangled mystics are fond of mentioning, the word for "crisis" in Chinese is the same as the word "opportunity." Michael Olson's MetroFarm tells how a farmer who is willing to innovate, experiment, and adapt to current market realities can compete.
Michael also does a weekly radio show -- Food Chain Radio. Links to that are on his site.
Order his book at his web site. Amazon shows it out of print.
In Pasadena California, not far from freeways and busy city streets sits a small home surrounded with lush plantings. Look again. Those are not landscape planting, it's all edible growth. On this well managed plot of land this family provides food for their family, speciality items for surrounding upscale resturants and members of their community. 
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