Bay Area Urban Agriculture Map
Project Overview
This map was made to showcase urban agriculture sites, community gardens, and school gardens around the Bay Area. We hope this map will help foster connections among farmers, gardeners, urban ag organizations, and interested members of the public.
Simply put, urban agriculture is the production of food in metropolitan areas and at their edges. After home gardens, some of the most common types of urban agriculture are community farms, community gardens, commercial urban farms, and institutional farms or gardens, which are linked to places like schools and universities, housing developments, and hospitals.
With this project, our goals are
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To help urban farmers and gardeners find each other for network building, information sharing, resource exchanges, and collaboration.
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To inform local policy that supports urban agriculture by helping policy makers, service providers, and community organizations understand the urban agriculture landscape in their jurisdictions.
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To help members of the public find places to garden or farm, to learn about about food and agriculture, to find locally grown food, and to get involved in their communities.
Team members
Rob Bennaton
Bay Area Urban Agriculture & Food Systems Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension
Andy Lyons
UC ANR Informatics and GIS Statewide Program
Shane Feirer
UC ANR Informatics and GIS Statewide Program
Team members
Lucy Diekmann
Urban Agriculture & Food Systems Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
Dalliana Banuelos
Former Student Research Assistant with UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Clara County
Erica Garibay
Former Small Farms/Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Intern with UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Clara County
Julio Contreras
Community Education Specialist with UC Cooperative Extension in Alameda County