Urban Agriculture in Washington, DC

Farming in cities often has a non-profit, humanitarian focus that provides solutions for the issues of food insecurity and malnutrition. Conversely, urban agriculture may be an enterprising business model, looking to make a living within the horticulture profession. In this map, urban agriculture sites often have a commercial focus, and differ from community garden spaces in that they are not for public use. Community gardens in DC are inteded for use by the public, and are organized via 1. DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR); 2. National Parks Service (NPS); or 3. independent organizations. School garden data is self-reported and collected annually by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) as part of the School Health Profiles created under the Healthy School Act.

Data used in this project

• Points and polygons in this map are provided by the Washington, DC District Department of Transportation, Urban Forestry Division. Hyperlinks to data source is as follows:
• Urban Agriculture Polygons.
• Community Garden Polygons.
• School Garden Points.
• The DC administrative boundary layers used for downloaded bus stop points from OpenStreetMap is from the US Census Bureau.
• Custom svg icons are from FreeSVG.com.
• Additional layers come from MapBox default tilesets, with the new style created based off of the Basic style "Spring."

Tools used in this project

• Layers were downloaded and inspected using QGIS 3.14, with shapefiles then uploaded onto MapBox Studio.
• QGIS 3.14 was also used to create the bus stops points layer, via clipping OpenStreetMap points data which overlapped with the DC boundary layer.
• Data is shown on Mapbox web map.

Project Assets

• This geojson of bus stop points in the District of Columbia.