Sustainable Urban Farming Progress

Perhaps the most honest coverage of Mayor Rogero's urban farming initiative is at the Mercury:

In a lonesome corner behind Knox Rail Salvage where East Depot Avenue dead ends at the high concrete wall of James White Parkway, a little over a half-acre of land sat for years, an odd grassy area surrounded by the hardscape of downtown. The hardware store that once stood there was torn down in the mid-2000s to make way for the parkway construction. Now it’s the site of Old City Gardens, the city’s newest, and closest-to-downtown community garden, which had its ceremonial ground breaking Friday morning.

by Eleanor Scott
 
Keep watching this blog as we spot and share more locations for urban pioneers to plot their nourishing, sustainable garden plots. Break the chains of corporate slavery!  The city just cleared a block in Happy Holler at W. Anderson and Wray that is just begging for tents and crops.