People come into urban agriculture
for a lot of different reasons.
Wanting to get outside, just wanting to get your
hands dirty, and at the same time,
feel like you're doing something
that's good, you know, something that's
helping people in some way. You know,
wanting to make the world a better place.
It's all over the city, it's all sorts of
different types of operations, different sizes.
It's a very exciting place for Cornell
Cooperative Extension to contribute
to the vitality of the diverse communities
that we have in that city through urban agriculture.
our duties entail working
with both hydroponic growers
and soil-based community farm and garden groups,
to really provide as much technical
assistance and educational programming
as we can.
A lot of people in the city, are coming
into agriculture from a gardening
background, or from an activist
background, or from an interest in food,
not a whole lot of people are coming
into it with a commercial vegetable background.
I think that's somewhere where we find that there's something we can bring,
we can help bring some of the
commercial vegetable knowledge
to small growers in the city and help them
make the most of the limited space that they have.
My favorite part of the job is
just learning as much as I can,
just getting to visit the different
farms and the different producers.
Urban agriculture gives people an opportunity to develop a sense of belonging,
a sense of contribution to the greater community.
