Abstract
Annie’s Project: Farming in New Jersey’s Cities and the Urban Fringe focused on the following five areas of risk identified by the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service: financial, production, marketing/price, legal/institutional, and human/personnel. Additional education regarding urban farming topics included securing suitable land, dealing with contaminated soils and alternative growing medias, and securing water for crop production. We delivered a series of six 3-hour evening classes to 23 producers. We administered a retrospective evaluation at the conclusion of the series and distributed an evaluation survey 6 months after training. Both evaluations found that participants increased their understanding of farm risks. Furthermore, they indicated they were better able to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their farm business activities.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1291-1296 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | HortScience |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2023 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Horticulture
Keywords
- Annie’s Project
- Likert scale
- Wilcoxon signed-rank test
- best management practices
- business management
- farm management
- farming in cities
- urban agriculture