The rise of urban agriculture in California in 2019.

Welcome to Part Two of our 2019 retrospective here on the KSTE Farm Hour. This week, we delve into a growing segment on the California farming scene: the rise of urban agriculture and the young farmers who are implementing changes and increasing the flexibility of land use in the Golden State. Last week, we looked at the ongoing issues that faced California’s farmers in 2019: water availability issues, complicated by the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act; trade issues, especially with countries that are large importers of California agricultural products such as Canada, Mexico and China; and how the future of agriculture is changing here based on the tighter availability of farm labor. You can hear that report by going to your favorite podcast aggregator, including IHeart, and doing a search for the KSTE Farm Hour.