Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignments
Reading Assignments

Improving Urban Soils

This web page from the EPA outlines the process for starting an urban agriculture project including handling potential brownfield issues.  It contains many useful links on dealing with problems of land availability for urban agriculture.

EPA - Improving Urban Soils - PDF

This article discusses improving urban soils not just for agriculture but for a variety of uses, including limiting runoff and reducing pollution.

It does have a concentration on brownfields because that is one of the areas of EPA involvement, but it also discusses simpler issues such as soil compaction from heavy foot traffic.