Comments on: Urban Farms vs. Urban Zoning

By: Exciting Update on Berkeley Edible Gardens Initiative « Ecology Center

Exciting Update on Berkeley Edible Gardens Initiative « Ecology Center — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:15:11 +0000

[...] the surplus edibles they produce in their yards. For more background on how BEGI got started, see this article from a past issue of Terrain. We are pleased to share this update from Sophie Hahn, the Berkeley [...]

By: East Bay residents contend for right to sell home-grown edibles « Ecology Center

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:34:14 +0000

[...] homesteaders to sell home-grown produce have met stringent resistance from local government. In an issue of Terrain Magazine, we covered the difficulty North Berkeley resident Sophie Hahn met in obtaining a permit that would [...]

By: Urban Homesteader Challenges City on Sale of Edibles

Urban Homesteader Challenges City on Sale of Edibles — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:12:01 +0000

[...] including councilmember Jesse Arreguin, author Michael Pollan, and the Ecology Center, whose magazine Terrain first reported on her dilemma last Spring. Supporters can register online on behalf of Hahn’s [...]

By: Willow Rosenthal of City Slicker Farms interviewed by Berkeleyside « Ecology Center

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:37:32 +0000

[...] affordable food that can be grown locally. (In the last issue of Terrain Magazine, we featured an article mentioning Rosenthal’s work in transforming the backyard of Berkeley resident Sophie H… into a flourishing urban farm.) Click here to read Berkeleyside’s interview. In it, Rosenthal [...]

By: Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Garden Teacher Kim Allen Offers Youth Space to Grow

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:01:29 +0000

[...] Daniel Miller at Spiral Gardens is another food security activist in our area doing good work. And Willow Rosenthal, who lives in Berkeley now and started City Slicker Farms in Oakland, which builds produce gardens [...]

By: Garden teacher Kim Allen offers youth space to grow.

Garden teacher Kim Allen offers youth space to grow. — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:48:16 +0000

By: Garden teacher Kim Allen offers youth space to grow | Berkeleyside

Garden teacher Kim Allen offers youth space to grow | Berkeleyside — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:02:08 +0000

By: Locavore News — World « Terra Coeur

Locavore News — World « Terra Coeur — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:04:33 +0000

[...] She was wrong. In fact, the process of getting a license turned out to be so convoluted, and so expensive, that for now she’s given up trying to do it. At a time when it seems everyone wants to bring the farm back to the city, and urban food projects are all the rage, Hahn’s story is a study in just how great a challenge this can be. Her adversary is not an anti-vegetable city official or a NIMBY neighbor—all that’s stopping Hahn is a few bland paragraphs in the zoning code. Terrain story. [...]

By: A cornucopia of food writing « All In

A cornucopia of food writing « All In — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:22:08 +0000

[...] to grow food in the city? Terrain has a great piece about urban farms vs. urban zoning. And in our July-August issue, we excerpted a dispatch from Next American City about Cleveland’s [...]

By: In Transition – the Movie | Transition Albany

In Transition – the Movie | Transition Albany — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:26:55 +0000

[...] produces more at times than I can keep up with. But It’s coming to my attention, thanks to an article in Terrain magazine, that city ordinances are written to dissuade people from engaging in urban farming within city [...]