Urban Agriculture: The New Frontier

At ECO City Farms, we seek to grow great food, farms and farmers! That’s why we partner with Prince George’s Community College to offer the region’s first Certificate in Commercial Urban Agriculture.  To register, see the Summer 2011 Schedule of Noncredit Classes, available at local libraries and community centers, or online at www.pgcc.edu (click on Owl Link, then click on Workforce Development and Cont. Ed. Students, then click on Register Cont. Ed. Courses).

AGR-301 Urban Agriculture: The New Frontier
This course helps develop a shared understanding of the main types and dimensions of urban agriculture, its potential impacts, the constraints and opportunities facing it, the stakeholders involved in it, the historical contexts shaping it, and the local, regional, and international development trends bearing on it. Sustainable energy applications relevant to urban agriculture will also be explored.