Table of Contents

Food Systems

This report details how important foods systems and urban agriculture play in local food in both comprehensive plans and local ordinances.  It focuses on community gardens, commercial gardens, urban farms, beekeeping, and raising chickens, and provides examples of ordinance approaches from across the nation.

Urban Agriculture

This report is a two-part document consisting of a guide, Including Local Food in Comprehensive Plans, and an Urban Agriculture Ordinance Toolkit. The second section of the report focuses on modifying or adding local code and ordinance language that recognizes urban agriculture as a legitimate land use and desirable community asset. It focuses on community gardens, commercial gardens, urban farms, beekeeping, and raising chickens, and provides examples of ordinance approaches from across the nation. Appendix C offers a model urban agriculture ordinance.