For Urban Farmers, Community Organizing Can Be Key to Easing Zoning Constraints

 Photo caption: City zoning laws presented a challenge to Doug Adams’s efforts to establish an urban farm. Photo courtesy of New Brooklyn Farms. Article by Bridget Shirvell. Modern Farmer – May 9, 2023.

Zoning laws can often be barriers for new farmers, but cities and towns are slowly making it easier to farm in residential areas.

When a vacant lot next to Doug Adams’ childhood home in Prince George’s County, Maryland came on the market in 2016, he jumped at the chance to buy it. […]

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