1. URBAN GARDENINGToni Strauch

2. • Where does it come from?
• The Facts
• What is It?
• Large-Scale Benefits
• Personal Benefits

3. WHY IS IT SO POPULAR?
• A fad?
• Sustainability?
• Never the less; it needs to be implemented…
– It’s about the future.

4. • Where does it come from?
• The Facts
• What is It?
• Large-Scale Benefits
• Personal Benefits

5. THE FACTS
• 7 Billion People. 7 Billion Mouths to feed.
• Food Related Processes – 21% of our carbon
footprint.
• 70% of freshwater pollution caused by current
farming practices.

6. • Where does it come from?
• The Facts
• What is It?
• Large-Scale Benefits
• Personal Benefits

7. WHAT
IS IT?

8. FLEXIBILITY &
DIVERSITY

9. • Where does it come from?
• The Facts
• What is It?
• Large-Scale Benefits
• Personal Benefits

10. WHAT’S IN IT FOR US?
• Sustainability
Sustainable living is the attempt to reduce society’s
impact on the Earth’s resources and processes.
– Keeps ecological cycles more in balance
• Hydrological Cycle
– Decreased water runoff
• Offsets some CO2 emissions
– Adds greenery to cities

11. Impervious surfaces in the city offset the balance between
surface runoff and water infiltration. Urban Gardening
decreases the amount of impervious surfaces.

12. Food-Related Emissions: 21%
of Total Carbon Footprint.
15% of transportation, 20% of
home energy use, and 23% of
the aggregate remaining
activities are food-related as
well.
Urban gardening helps to offset these emissions (involved in
production, distribution, driving to restaurants and the grocery store
and cooking) by allowing people to simply walk to their backyard,
rooftop, or community garden to pick their own food.

13. • Where does it come from?
• The Facts
• What is It?
• Large-Scale Benefits
• Personal Benefits

14. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
• Self-Sufficiency
– Homegrown, local food
• Improved health
– Better access to healthy foods for lower-class people
• Promotes community
– Community gardens >> Community involvement
– Farmers markets
• Economic growth

15. HEALTH
• “In a 130- day temperate growing season, a 10’x10’
meter plot can provide most of a 4-person household’s
total yearly vegetable needs, including much of the
household’s nutritional requirements for vitamins A, C,
and B complex and iron.” - The Community Food
Security Coalition
• Physical activity
• Mental Health
– Stress Reduction
– Social Skills

16. • Where does it come from?
• The Facts
• What is It?
• Large-Scale Benefits
• Personal Benefits

17. SOURCES
• Howard, B. C. (n.d.). Urban Farming Is Growing a Green
Future. Environment Facts, Environment Science, Global
Warming, Natural Disasters, Ecosystems, Green Living -
National Geographic. Retrieved October 1, 2013, from
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/phot
os/urban-farming/
• James, A. (n.d.). How Urban Farming Can Transform Our
Cities -- And Our Agricultural System. ThinkProgress.
Retrieved October 1, 2013, from
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/29/491271/how-
urban-farming-can-transform-our-cities-and-our-agricultural-
system/