Urban agriculture grows in the Sacramento region
Sacramento has a strong history of supporting urban agriculture and the city recently marked its 10th anniversary of an urban agriculture ordinance
By Lisa Thibodeau
The Observer
April 24, 2025
Excerpt:
Three Sisters Gardens is a nonprofit organization with four urban garden plots in West Sacramento and a 1-acre tree nursery in Sacramento that has been operating since 2018 and aims to teach sustainable farming skills to local youth while contributing to an equitable food system.
The youths (up to age 25) laugh and fist-bump one another as they load trays of shishito pepper plants into the back of a van. The veggies will be harvested later this summer and will feed people in Sacramento’s most vulnerable communities who live in food deserts with little access to nutritious and affordable food.
In Sacramento, these communities deal with food insecurity and are located in “food swamps,” areas that are oversaturated with fast food restaurants, which provide low-nutritional food and can contribute to various health issues such as diabetes and obesity.
Urban farms — which can encompass anything from a small farm inside a city, a rooftop garden, hydroponic and vertical farming, edible landscaping or other unconventional methods — fill in food access gaps and contribute to healthier communities, according to Alfred Melbourne, founder of Three Sisters Gardens.
“Our goal is to give away up to 80% of what we grow. We deliver mainly to one low-income housing complex called Las Casitas, also known as The Pinks,” Melbourne said. “We also grow herbs for the Sacramento Native American Health Center for their diabetes program because we know that food is medicine.”.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/urban-agriculture-grows-in-the-sacramento-region/
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