Urban Farm DB
Research catalogue
Database research record2019·United States

Local Food

Daniel Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo

Island Press/Center for Resource Economics eBooks

Urban Farm DB summary

This piece discusses the growth of the local food movement in the United States, describing consumers increasingly seeking organically grown fruits and vegetables and pasture-raised meat, eggs, and dairy, and using their food spending to support local economies, family farmers, and animal-welfare standards. It states that farmers markets and community gardens are becoming dynamic social hubs in urban areas and are pushing municipalities to change laws to allow more urban farming.