Urban Farm U: Reconnecting People with Food, Nature, and Wellness

Urban Farm U is a web-centric community committed to enabling people to grow their own healthy, wholesome food—regardless of where they reside. It celebrates reconnecting with the earth, opting out of the industrial food system, and developing food sovereignty through affordable education and support from a community.

Urban Farm U inspires:

• Healthier, happier living through growing your own food.
• Learning to incorporate natural processes into daily life.
• Joining the real food revolution and becoming food free.

They feel that building a personal connection to where food originates helps build both personal and planetary wellness.

Urban Farm U offers a combination of online learning resources:

• Free Monthly Chats and Webinars (45–75 minutes), focusing on practical subjects.
• In-depth Courses by seasoned educators, instructing terrain-tested methods and basic gardening skills.
• An opulent collection of courses, including:
  • Victory Garden Challenge Mega-Bundle: An enormous library (57 courses) on city agriculture, permaculture, chickens, composting, fruit trees, cooking, and more.
  • 3 Steps to Jump Start Your Urban Farm: A free signature introduction course with Greg Peterson.
  • Water Harvesting in Depth: Strategies from Don Titmus & Greg Peterson.
  • Never Buy Seeds Again: Seed harvesting education with Bill McDorman.
  • Urban Animals: Raising chickens, goats, and more with expert Kari Spencer.
  • Growing Food the Basics: A foundational course for confident home growing.
  • Aquaponics Revealed: Learn aquaponics with expert Chad Hudspeth.

These courses provide students with the ability to choose from free classes to in-depth dives into specialized subjects.

Urban Farm U fosters a community in which:

• Students are able to exchange successes and setbacks, enabling all to progress farther, faster, and cheaper.
• Affiliate Partnerships are offered for people who want to spread the word about urban agriculture and make money through referrals—through marketing materials and revenue sharing.
• Students exchange testimonials praising how the teachings apply everywhere—whether in Portland or rural Nepal—and particularly praise the Growing Food the Basics course as highly practical.

• Mailing Address:
  • PO Box 266, Alexander, NC 28701
  • Fruit Tree Program: PO Box 10072, Glendale, AZ 85318
• Phone: (602) 248-9256
• Website: They have a web presence at urbanfarm.org, although services are largely provided online.

• Urban Farm U was launched in 2012 by Greg Peterson as an offshoot of The Urban Farm effort, aiming to make food-growing education accessible globally through online means.
• The larger Urban Farm organization was started sooner, in 2001, with origins in working to shift local food systems—particularly in and around the Phoenix area.

Urban Farm U supports and builds out its content through a patron program, under which supporters can give and receive special benefits:

• Urban Farmer Silver ($10/month): Provides ad-free access to the entire Urban Farm Podcast archive (700+ episodes), as well as the exclusive Urban Farm U Facebook group.
• Urban Farmer Gold ($25/month): Includes two patron-only urban farming classes per month and special discounts on Urban Farm U courses.
• Platinum tier (coming soon): Guarantees more extras such as group coaching sessions.

This model allows ongoing production of great content, from courses to podcasts.

• The Urban Farm Podcast, established in 2015, now has more than 650 episodes with interviews, learning nuggets, and tales of urban and regenerative farming pioneers.
• The podcast is a vibrant and continuous extension of the learning and community ethos that Urban Farm U promotes.

While you’ve seen some of the courses (like Victory Garden Mega-Bundle, Aquaponics Unlocked, etc.), this is how they’re organized:

• Hosted in a CustomerHub-driven library—login or account sign-up required to view and manage content.
• They provide them with structured, searchable access to all courses, enabling learners to browse, filter, and enroll.

• Students highlight the regenerative values and principles they learned in Urban Farm U and find them valuable and universally applicable—whether gardening in Portland, Oregon, or in rural Nepal.
• One experienced learner praised the underlying value of the “Growing Food the Basics” course as “extremely practical” and stated they learn something new every time they view.
• The site is also famous for its open exchange of information, especially on sustainable production of food in challenging environments like the low desert.