Articles by Christopher Weber
Christopher Weber is an environmental journalist in Chicago.
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Counting the harvest: How numbers can save urban gardens
In 2010, just 67 New York gardens yielded 87,000 pounds of food. Some experts believe data like this is crucial to ensuring the urban agriculture movement takes root.
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Amid drought, farmers flood social media
Parched farmers are using Twitter as a social-media-style rain gauge, a help line, and an open channel to their urban customers.
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A dry run from hell: Drought hits the smallest farms the hardest
This drought will give small Midwestern farmers lots of practice coping with climate change -- if it doesn’t bankrupt them first.
