sometimes i volunteer at an urban farm.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around a village, town, or city. Urban agriculture can also involve animal husbandry, aquaculture, agroforestry, urban beekeeping, and horticulture. These activities occur in peri-urban areas as well, and peri-urban agriculture may have different characteristics. Urban agriculture can reflect varying levels of economic and social development. In the global north, it often takes the form of a social movement for sustainable communities, where organic growers, \u2018foodies,\u2019 and \u2018locavores\u2019 form social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community holism. These networks can evolve when receiving formal institutional support, becoming integrated into local town planning as a \u2018transition town\u2019 movement for sustainable urban development. In the developing south, food security, nutrition, and income generation are key motivations for the practice. In either case, more direct access to fresh vegetables, fruits, and meat products through urban agriculture can improve food security and food safety. Community wastes were used in ancient Egypt to feed urban farming.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I live in the country and have a big garden.  I understand there is a big push in cities for urban agriculture though."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In urban areas, people need more access to fresh produce"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Where do they put gardens?  In the city park?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "These agricultural areas can be integrated into local town planning.  But I have heard of roof gardens."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Roof gardens?  Tell me how they manage that.  I would think the dirt would be too heavy and put too much strain on the roof."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Peri-urban  agriculture may have different characteristics. For example, you might not use real soil."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Really?  I have heard of hydro-plants.  Do they use water instead?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Urban agriculture can use aquaculture.  Other things may be as exotic as bee keeping"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've always been fascinated with people who are bee keepers.  I'd be afraid, but they seem to know how to handle bees gently."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Unfortunately, bees have been undergoing colony collapse disorder where the workers bees leave the colony"}]