Community CROPS Press Coverage

Below is a selection of television, radio, magazine and newspaper coverage on CROPS.

Lincoln family turns to Community CROPS for garden space

Watch this fun video to learn about a local family gardening with CROPS. Story by Jonathon Augustine for NewsNetNebraska

Nebraska Entrepreneur Article

Community CROPS supports local entrepreneurship, offers fresh food is a great article about CROPS, our farmers and the CSA.

Cleaner Greener Lincoln Video on Community CROPS Featuring Local Families

Haszard Family and Rep. Fortenberry Visit

Visiting a Farmers' Market with CROPS

Leslie Pillen, CROPS Growing Farm Program Manager, recently showed a local family around the Old Cheney Road Farmers' Market, for a feature for Channel 8. Watch it here.

Urban Agriculture is a Growing Trend

by Gary C. Bergman, UNL Extension Educator
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension has observed an interesting upswing in gardening, locally-grown foods, and farmers markets. Much might be attributed to the current popularity of television food shows requiring those essential garden-fresh ingredients. Other reasons may be a craving for the great outdoors and physical activity. On a practical basis, some will point to saving money and reducing the carbon footprint of food traveling long distances to the consumer. Whatever the reason, the enthusiasm for urban agriculture appears weekly share of vegetables in return very real and recent demographic changes for providing financial support for the suggest the trend will continue. Read more including quotes from CROPS.

Journal Star Interactive: Farmers markets, CSAs and local farms around Lincoln

Find new places to buy great local food with this handy site from the Journal Star.

Additional CROPS News Coverage

Meet a community gardening family in this NewsNetNebraska feature.

Listen to Ingrid Kirst, Community CROPS Executive Director talk about the program, and enjoy footage of the community gardens, on this Backyard Farmer episode.

Gardeners share seeds, tips about the January 2011 Seed Swap, published in the Lincoln Journal Star.

Amy Brt, Community Garden Program Manager, was recently featured on Channel 8 news.

Local foods were the feature in a KOLN news feature, with plenty of shots of the CROPS Farmers' Market.

Another feature on KOLN introduces some of our community gardeners

The Daily Nebraskan recently featured CROPS in a good story about our gardens.

CROPS on NET Radio

Community CROPS and our farm training project were featured on NET radio. Go to NET's website to listen to the whole story.

New Roots in America: Immigrant Farmers Make a New Home

By Lauren Wilcox, World Ark Contributor

Lewiston, Maine — Fatima Aden, dressed in long skirts and the headscarf traditional to her Bantu tribe, moves back and forth across a small plot of land, plucking ripe zucchini and lettuce.

To read more, click here...

Community CROPS Gardens provide more than food

It takes a village...

Lincoln Journal Star

Skills. Self-satisfaction. Relaxation. Friendships. Joy. These are things that thrive in the Community CROPS Gardens. And then there’s the food — lots of food.

Like the vegetables that are grown there, each garden has its own flavor. Read more ...