Urban farming is growing and distributing food within a city or town. Across the country, this style of farming has grown by more than 30% in the last three decades.
– Jeremiah Slavit’s garage isn’t filled with any vehicles, tools, or holiday decorations. Instead, it’s filled with thousands of microgreens.
“It all started with a tray of radish and a tray of broccoli,” Slavit said. “It kind of grew from there.”Slavit owns San Antonio Microgreens, selling greens to more than a hundred people on a regular basis.Slavit said he sees this as the future of farming. “Two ounces of this broccoli is the nutritional equivalent of 40 heads of broccoli from the store,” Slavit said. “You can run a whole farm that can feed a couple of hundred people with less than it would take to do an extra shower.”With ongoing drought and extreme heat in Texas, Gary Joiner, the director of communications for the Texas Farm Bureau, said this could be the future.
“We are very vulnerable,” Joiner said. “There’s room really for all sizes of farms and ranch in Texas agriculture.”Stephen Lucke, the founder of Gardopia Gardens, said his garden harvests fresh food and a sense of community. “We’re creating a really sustainable community,” Lucke said. “That’s just one of the realities of living in south central Texas that you just have to adapt to.”Avery Everett is a news reporter and multimedia journalist at KSAT 12 News. Avery is a Philadelphia native. If she’s not at the station, she’s either on a hiking or biking trail.
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