The city of West Sacramento is burnishing the area’s farm-to-fork reputation with two new apps centered on the region’s urban agriculture.
Acres allows landowners to upload information about available urban farm sites into an online database. Farm Stand is a demand aggregator for products grown at urban farms to help residents and institutional buyers have greater access to fruits and vegetables.
Developed in partnership with Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) and built as part of a Code for America fellowship, “the two apps will help facilitate the growth of urban farming by increasing access to land that can be used for farming and aggregating demand for products grown at urban farms.
The apps were unveiled at Code for America’s summit in Oakland last week.
West Sacramento said the apps will be made available to other governments in the region by the end of the year.
