Urban Agriculture
Competency C5. Demonstrate proper methods to harvest, handle, and store crops.
Description
Urban agriculture is a way to grow, process and distribute food in urban areas. As a greater population lives in urban areas, the movement to urban agriculture has created more green spaces within cities and allowed for more of the population to produce food for themselves through many different techniques.
Resources
- Urban Farming
- Why we should be Urban Farming Video
- Carlos Garcia - Young Urban Farmers Program Lesson Plan
Teaching Methods
Lecture Discussion, Paired or Small Group Discussion, Demonstration, Case Study, Field Trip, Resource People, Experiment, Game and Simulations, Supervised Study