Urban Farming Toolkit

The Urban Farming Toolkit is a digital, visual guide to starting a garden, designed to provide instructions on gardening at any scale, for people at all experience-levels. The guide takes the reader through the background of urban gardening, how to plan and build a garden, gardening maintenance, and the financial and legal issues relevant to growing an urban garden.

The toolkit is printable as a series of “information flashcards”, each focusing on one aspect of urban farming, with a summary, illustration, “ingredients” and “instructions”, like a gardening recipe book.

The partners for this project included the New Orleans Food and Farm Network (NOFFN) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). NOFFN is a grassroots organization that partners with individuals, organizations, growers and communities to help make fresh, healthy food more accessible to everyone. The NEA is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established, and is the nation’s largest annual funder of the arts.

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