Pittsburgh to host America's largest urban farm

New York

THE US city of Pittsburgh, once a dynamo of heavy industry, will soon become home to the country's largest urban farm, part of what advocates say is a trend to transform former manufacturing cities into green gardens. The Hilltop Urban Farm will open in 2019, consisting of 9 hectares of farmland where low-income housing once stood, 3 km from the city centre, designers say.

On top of farmland where winter peas and other fresh produce will be grown by local residents and sold in the community, the farm…