A neighborhood friend and blogger just posted about Buffalo's urban farm history. fix Buffalo highlights the city program to establish urban farms to feed the poor and hungry during hard times in the 1890's. Ironically, Buffalo was following the example of Detroit's urban agriculture program. Today, Detroit is working to establish urban farms on its acres and acres of vacant land. Let's hope that Buffalo can again follow the example of others in developing urban agriculture.
The aerial photo above is a 150 acre farm at the Buffalo Psychiatric Asylum in 1927. In 1927 Buffalo's population was more than double the current population and we still had room for 150 acres of farm land. We now know this farm as Buffalo State College.
Links:
fix Buffalo's 1890 urban farm postWNY Heritage Press article on 1890's urban farmsDetroit urban farm proposal
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