Think Globally, Eat Locally - Iron Roots Urban Farm helps you get there

Iron Roots Urban Farm, a project of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation, is a 1.7 acre working farm and training center located at 820 Canfield Road on the south side of Youngstown. Iron Roots Urban Farm grows fresh produce in urban neighborhoods, encourages business creation on vacant land, helps city residents develop successful microenterprises with the goal of creating jobs, and teaches neighbors about growing food and healthy lifestyles. You can support their activities and your health by ordering from their rotating staple of vegetables.

Ordering is simple!

1. Call (330)480-0423 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays; from 10AM-5:30PM and ask for Danielle. 
2. Ask what produce we have that week and for prices (or give us your E-mail address to get a price and availability list in your inbox every week).
3. Place your order by telling us what and how much produce you want and get a total over the phone (or you can e-mail your order to dseidita@yndc.org). Orders can be placed up until Fridays at 8:30am.
4. Pick up and pay for your produce order on Fridays from 3PM-530PM or Saturdays from 1:30PM - 4:00PM, at your convenience! Pay with Cash, Check, Ohio Direction Card/EBT, Debit, or Credit!
5. The farm is located at 820 Canfield Rd. in Youngstown, Ohio 44511. Produce pickup will be right around the corner on Billingsgate Avenue—look for the new green Demonstration Kitchen building.

Produce for the week of 25th, 2013 

• Onions (Green Onions) $1.00 per 1/3 Lb. Bunch
• Carrots $2.00 per 1 LB. Bunch
• Fennel $2.00 per Bulb 
• Lettuce Mix (Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce) $4.00 per ½ Lb.
• Mustard Greens $2.00 per ½ Lb. Bunch
• Red Romaine (Limited Availability) $4.00 per ½ Lb. Bag
• Spinach $4.00 per ½ Lb. Bag
• Swiss Chard $2.00 per ½ Lb. Bunch 

 All their veggies are naturally grown.

Love it... more on urban ag

From the Associated Press...
Motor City may provide model for urban agriculture

By DAVID RUNK, Associated Press Writer

Friday, April 23, 2010

(AP) --Detroit, which revolutionized manufacturing with its auto assembly lines, could once again be a model for the world as residents transform vacant, often-blighted land into a source of fresh food.

With growing interest in locally raised food, cities including New York, Los Angeles and Seattle are looking at ways to foster and manage urban agriculture. San Francisco's mayor has proposed creating community gardens on vacant public land citywide.

But no city seems to have as much potential for urban farming as Detroit, where land is cheap, empty lots are plentiful, and residents are desperate for jobs. The number of community gardens has been growing each year, and bigger, commercial agriculture could be coming as city planners draw up land use rules for farming.

365 Things #11

Today is a pretty dreary day in Youngstown. So if you don't get out to see anything today, put on some coffee and hang around the house. But before the summer is out, you've got to see (and taste) what is going on right here under your nose.

In the past few years a number of community gardens have started up in Youngstown. I'll just mention a few and if there is not one near you, feel free to start one. Jubilee Gardens, Inc. is located on Lafayette Street in Briar Hill and has been around since the 1980's. Fairgreen Garden, operated by GROW Youngstown, is located at the corner of Fairgreen and Ohio Avenues, and Avondale Garden (pictured) is located on the south side, on Avondale Street, just east of Southern Blvd.

Their goal is to bring fresh produce to the city and help people to garden sucessfully.

Have land, will grow

Vegetables, that is. I stumbled upon a new blog, The Infrastructurist, which asks, 'What should we do with a semi-abandoned city?' The answer is gardening. The article speaks of Detroits loss of 70% of its population and infrastructure that can support three times as many people as currently live there. I've added this blog to my daily list of reads. You should too.

• http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010/01/13/what-should-we-do-with-a-semi-abandoned-us-city/
• Fortune article, referenced in story: http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/29/news/economy/farming_detroit.fortune/index.htm

Ohh, and an interesting blog post on Cleveland about pretty much the same thing: http://www.circletheusa.com/2009/04/cleveland.html