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This paper examines the bylaws across Canada with regards to urban poultry and compares them as well as having a great list of sources for anyone interested in setting up urban hen advocacy in their own communities.

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Based in Victoria, BC, Lifecycles fosters food security and urban sustainability through urban gardens, garden education and training, fruit tree gleaning, and youth capacity-building. Lifecycles also runs the "Growing Schools" and "Sharing Backyards" projects as well as the "Hive" Demonstration Garden.
 

Since the early 80's the Dervaes family has slowly transformed their ordinary city lot into a self sufficient urban homestead. Path to Freedom presents 'A Homegrown Revolution' A collaboration of selective media clips which feature their urban homestead and farm which focus on the need of radical action -- growing food in the city. (9:59 min)

This video is part of Kitchen Gardeners International's "Eat the View!" campaign to convert part of the White House lawn into an edible landscape. It features KGI founder, Roger Doiron, digging a new vegetable garden on his "white house" lawn with a request to President Obama to do the same with his which is actually ours anyway. Can we dig this new garden and inspire a nation? Yes, we can!

This website is a collection of stories about the work of City Farmer in Vancouver, Canada, and about urban farmers from around the world. Contains up-to-the-minute news, and links to excellent documents from other urban ag sources. The site is maintained by City Farmer executive director, Michael Levenston.

Unpublished paper by Annie Myers, for a course in City Planning (”Land Use Controls”), Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2008. Written to provide planners with models of six existing urban farms and to aid in the development of urban plans that prioritize urban food production. 2008 (37 pages). Myers also maintains a very interesting blog called "Thoughts on the Table: A Blog on Soil, Food and Merry Collaboration" (http://thoughtsonthetable.wordpress.com)

Link to downloadable book (282 pages).

Initiative of the Collaborative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) geared to strengthening urban and periurban agriculture in the developing world through development-focused research partnerships. Urban Harvest has projects in Uganda, Kenya and Peru.