urban farming

Bhakta Rizal is a refugee from Bhutan who has resettled in Akron. He started Shanti Farms, a non-profit urban farming project focused on immigrant communities.

The Coit Road Farmers Market is helping East Clevelanders cultivate their own crops with its beginning farmers apprenticeship program. This program comes just in time for the market’s 90th anniversary and the start of the 2022 growing season.

Akron City Council is helping the West Hill Neighborhood create the city’s first nut farm across the street from its existing fruit farm.Council members…