We've got some amazing resources here in the Bay Area and even surrounding cities (i.e. Oregon) to learn about urban farming. I found out about it through Hayes Valley Farm - who hosted a lecture by Cuban permaculture activist
Roberto Perez Rivero here in the city earlier this year. If you get the chance, you should watch the documentary entitled, "
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" which talks about Cuba's turn to urban farming after its economic collapse in 1991 following the fall of the Soviet Union.
From there I read
Novella Carpenter's
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer over the summer. While I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I don't see myself raising pigs in my little San Francisco backyard anytime soon. In any case, I think it's been claimed by an orange stray cat. Everytime I've opened up our blinds in the morning, he's been there in our overgrown backyard, doing what cats do, which is laze around on a sunny patch of grass and exude absolute cuteness.
