Homeless learn to farm in Santa Cruz January 2011 update: Many of the photos have been removed from this series so they can be published in a Breaking Through Concrete book, forthcoming this year from ...

As cities in California continue to grow, some farms that used to be “in the country” are close at hand, and uncontrolled homeless populations are using them as comfort stations. More farm operators ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Not far from the raised garden beds growing leafy greens will be a worm farm that creates compost. Next to that, egg-laying chickens will roam freely. At the center of the ...

SANTA CRUZ – The homeless have no shortage of beds at the Natural Bridges Farm, many of them bursting with herbs or vegetables, flowers or strawberries. Each of the raised boxes at the 2.5-acre site ...

At 10 a.m., the hot sun already has spilled in over the Waiʻanae Range, warming up the notoriously toasty Lualualei Valley. Tour guide Kristen Jamieson welcomes a group of servers and cooks from a ...

MADISON – Gary Davis stood in the middle of a corral at Albertson’s Quarter Horse Farm, the reins in his hands connected to the horse’s halter. The horse responded to his voice commands to walk or ...

VISTAVISTA — A small Vista aquaponics farm run by a nonprofit group that works with homeless families just had a pretty big growth spurt — it has tripled in size. The agricultural enterprise known as ...

After years of planning, a new shelter for homeless farm workers is under construction in Carlsbad. Officials held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for the new La Posada de Guadalupe shelter. The ...

SANTA CRUZ — Before graduating from the Homeless Garden Project’s job training program, Karen Chappell was “basically unemployable.” A little more than a year after Chappell first investigated the ...