PUA 103: Urban Farming by Community Nonprofits
Are you interested in commercial
farming in the city? Or are you an urban planner or urban agriculture
advocate who wants to create better support for urban farms in your
city? The courses in this series titled,
The Promise of Urban Agriculture
are designed to help you understand the practices and policies that
support commercial urban farming. We use the term 'commercial' to
include any farm that sells products to support some or all of the
farm's activities.
This course, "Urban Farming by Community Nonprofits" is designed for
nonprofit farm staff and members of community organizations that manage
urban farms. It goes deeper into the specific concerns of operating an
urban farm as a nonprofit. Throughout
the course, examples from the urban farming nonprofit "Rooted"
based in Madison, Wisconsin are highlighted.
Target Audience
Aspiring/Beginner
– This course is directed at farmers and staff at nonprofit
organizations that currently or plan to operate an urban farm. It assumes
participants know how to plant, grow, and harvest a crop and are looking for
guidance on when and where a nonprofit structure can support urban farm
success.
Course Objectives
Upon completing "Urban Farming by Community Nonprofits," you will be able to:
- Articulate how an urban farm, whether established or new, meets the mission and objectives of a nonprofit organization.
- Anticipate planned and unplanned changes connected to the urban farm.
- Know the obligations of external funding and the types of record keeping asked for by funders.
- Understand the need for quality project evaluation.
- Maintain a successful urban farm consistent with the organization’s nonprofit mission.
- Initiate the application of an anti-racist lens to urban farming.
Course Schedule
This course is self-paced and happens on your own time, with videos, readings, and assignments here in Teachable, our virtual classroom.
Your Instructor
Marcia Caton Campbell, MCRP, PhD, Executive Director, Rooted
Martin Bailkey, PhD, Special Projects Manager, Rooted
Anu Rangarajan, PhD, Cornell University, State Fresh Market Vegetable Specialist and Director, Cornell Small Farms Program
The Promise of Urban Agriculture courses were created in fulfillment of a cooperative research agreement (20-TMMSD-NY-0005) between U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA AMS), Cornell University Small Farms Program, and Rooted WI, Inc. (dba Rooted). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.