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2011 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Education & Outreach

Urban Agriculture and Economic Stimulus: Deciphering the Current Landscape of Urban Agriculture Community through an Online Survey

Student(s):

Elisa Christiani

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Phyllis Shulman

Partner(s):

  • Seattle City Council, Office of President Richard Conlin

Faculty advisor(s):

Michael Kucher, Interdiciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

For my project I created a definition of Urban Agriculture within Seattle’s city limits, and I compiled a directory of all of those involved in agriculture, which consisting of important points of contact and short summaries of their business. I then constructed an online survey on how the City of Seattle could best serve these urban agriculturalists and sent it out to all participants. Finally, with the results, I performed a statistical analysis of the data and gave my recommendations to the Seattle City Council on ways to best encourage growth in this group.