Philadelphia Urban Agriculture Plan
By Catalina Jaramillo, January 31, 2021, WHYY
Everything was celebratory that Tuesday night in December 2019, when hundreds of residents packed a room of the central branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia to kick off the city’s first urban agricultural plan. A diverse group of community garden members, urban farmers, environmental nonprofit leaders, planners, activists, and city staffers were eager to start creating a strategy to preserve gardens and farms across the city, something they had been fighting for for years.