Beam, Brooke W. (author), Specht, Annie R. (author), and Buck, Emily (author)
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Conference paper
Publication Date:
2017-02
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08159
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Research paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (SAAS) conference in Mobile, Alabama, February 4-7, 2017. 22 pages., Analysis of the "Living with the Land" attraction at Walt Disney World, an automated boat ride that educates visitors on agricultural topics.
USA: Center for Food and Agricultural Business, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: D09404
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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from Purdue University and McDonald's Corporation., 27 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08807
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Pages 203-212 in Debra A. Reid, Interpreting agriculture at museums and historic sites. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 265 pages.
17 pages., via online journal, The scholarly and journalistic literature usually treats urban agriculture as a new phenomenon, but it is a neglected dimension of urban history. Some U.S. cities, at least in the Northeast, had food-raising and processing practices not just in colonial times but up until the relatively recent past. Three areas of history are explored that have mostly omitted discussion of city food production but nonetheless provide important frameworks to explore such production: urban development, agricultural, and immigrant history. Woven throughout this piece is evidence from a study of Waterbury, Connecticut. Local food production did not die when the Industrial Revolution came to Waterbury. Farms and other food-producing, processing, and marketing operations remained and even adapted to the growing city’s needs and resources. The city government both supported and undermined agriculture in ways that add to an understanding of urban history and are lessons for current urban agriculture policy.
