During Spring 2026 semester, Malka Roth and I co-taught a course in which students interviewed individuals whose urban agriculture sites in Washington, DC, were terminated, some voluntarily and others forcibly, to understand what happened to the space and people involved in the projects, and how they remember the experience. Click on the image on the left to view the StoryMap that illustrates "stories" that we captured from the 21 interviews. 

Intergenerational oral history interview captured and archived the memories of individuals that grew up in DC's Black communities observing and participating in local food provisioning, including gardening, fishing, and foraging. Each of the 17 interviews provides the narrators' vivid memories of their childhood experiences, how they recall these practices slowly declining in prominence, and what they see as the significance of having intergenerational conversations about such memories. Oral history interviews were funded by Humanities DC and are archived at DC Public Library's People's Archive. 

The report highlights public funding availability for urban farmers in Washington, DC.

The map shows the locations of community gardens in Washing, DC, as of May 2024. (Acknowledgment: Jialan Deal)

If you find information that needs correction or wish to add new farms to the list, please contact Kato at yuki.kato@georgetown.edu or fill out this form. 

The map shows the location of urban farms in Washington, DC, as of December 2023. (Acknowledgment: Jialan Deal)

If you find information that needs correction or wish to add new farms to the list, please contact Kato at yuki.kato@georgetown.edu or fill out this form.