New Report on Promoting Urban Agriculture in Toronto

Here is a new report looking at ways of scaling up urban agriculture in Toronto.  I wonder which ideas would work here in the Puget Sound region.  Some of the recommendations include the following:

Short Term:

• rooftop food production
• development by the City of a strategy to specifically address increasing development of a hub for soil testing for urban agriculture
• construction of a City-staffed, multi-stakeholder steering body to govern foundations and the amount of money being invested in urban agriculture

Medium Term

• support community gardening and fruit trees across most zoning designations
• study of tax revenue implications of permitting urban farm property tax
• pursuit of food-producing land trusts in the city
• research and development into low-weight, highly fertile growing media
• development of neighbourhood-based urban agriculture hubs

Long Term

• Agricultural and Garden zoning designation, allowing for the possibility of permanent protection for food-growing spaces

To see the complete report go here.

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3. Seattle Considering Urban Agriculture Code Amendments

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