What's the difference between Farming and Gardening?

The Urban Agriculture Conference's Manhattan farm tour—as in the central borough of New York City, not Manhattan, Kan.—called into question everything I knew about farming. And as a former farm kid, I know a little something about farming. read more

That act of making money—not just producing, but selling—determines the difference between gardening and farming, for the USDA and most farmers, too. Even those who farm with the primary goal of improving the environment or building community believe that a financially robust enterprise is fundamental to the mission. read more

To run farming and gardening together misses what is unique and important about each. Moreover, running them together means missing out on some very intriguing and important ideas about how food history interacts with the history of population and of civilization. So first, three differences between gardening and farming. read more