Spring 2025: The Urban Agriculture Issue – Living Architecture Monitor Magazine

The Urban Agriculture Issue is now available for free due to the support of our advertisers.

Excerpt:

Our food system is complex, resource intensive, often unhealthy, and most of all, fragile. The worsening climate crisis with its extreme weather and rising temperatures requires that we adapt quickly or face widespread food insecurity. This is the ‘elephant in the room’ few people want to talk about. Climate change threatens our food supply! Our future food resiliency not only involves protecting farmland from urban sprawl, it requires us to redesign our buildings and cities, with food production as a primary goal. Urban agriculture projects profiled in this issue of the LAM do more than provide us with nutrients. They help us adapt to intense storms and reduce urban heat islands, while providing meaningful work, increasing ecological literacy, promoting community cohesion, supporting biodiversity, and addressing social justice issues. So, let’s implement policies and programs to rapidly scale up all forms of urban agriculture to prepare for turbulent times ahead!

Rooftop Farming Takes Hold in Downtown Houston
Blackwood Skyfarm at POST Houston is a pioneering 1-acre rooftop farm that enhances urban agriculture, promotes biodiversity, and fosters community education. Open daily, it offers workshops, volunteer programs, and a farmers market, serving as a model for sustainable rooftop farming.

A Farm Oasis in Cambridge: Adaptive Reuse Comes Home
A once-underutilized garage roof in Cambridge, MA, is now a thriving urban farm, blending food production, biodiversity, and sustainability. Featuring rainwater harvesting, native pollinators, and community education, this award-winning green roof exemplifies adaptive reuse and neighborhood engagement.

Brooklyn Grange: Growing a Greener Future Under New Leadership
Brooklyn Grange, a leader in urban agriculture, is expanding under new leadership. With a focus on rooftop farming, green infrastructure, and community engagement, the organization continues to transform urban spaces into biodiverse, climate-resilient ecosystems while promoting sustainability and food security.

Cultivating Knowledge and Connection: Urban Agriculture and Ecological Literacy
Urban agriculture fosters ecological literacy, reconnecting city dwellers with nature. Explore how Toronto Metropolitan University’s Urban Farm cultivates sustainability, community, and hands-on learning. Read more on urban food systems and environmental awareness.

The Growing Importance of Investing in Food Resilience
This article highlights the importance of food resilience and the climate crisis and other challenges that affect it and provides solutions for strengthening our food system.

All stories here.