Earlier in the month a blue, half-sized gorilla named Werbert was taken from St Werburgh's City Farm and a sculpture in Clifton, created by television personality Timmy Mallett, was set on fire.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
There is sometimes hope that salarymen will leave the city to reclaim and farm their family land.
During National Farm-City Week, we celebrate the bounty of America, and we honor the commitment of those who grow, harvest, and deliver agricultural goods to feed our country and grow our economy.
During National Farm-City Week, we express gratitude for the contributions of our Nation's farmers and ranchers, and we rededicate ourselves to providing all Americans with access to healthy food, and thus, a healthy future.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week ending on Thanksgiving Day of each year as National Farm-City Week.
It was founded in 1985 by a young man from a farm near Sioux City, Iowa.
Mr Cereste has been criticised for backing schemes including a 900-acre (364 hectare) wind and solar farm near the city.
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He met volunteers at Ouseburn Farm in the city centre, where he opened a new beehive as part of a city wide initiative to boost bees.
For a while he picked beans at a truck farm on the city outskirts, making little money but guaranteeing that the family would have at least one thing on the table at suppertime.
Ironically it is easier for children in the city to spend time on a farm than those in more rural areas, he believes.
There is a chance NYC FC can serve as a farm team for Manchester City, which in 2012 won its first Premier League title since 1968.
The top tip for the finance ministry is Antonio Palocci, the youngish former mayor of a city in Sao Paulo's farm belt, who now heads the transition team.
Water held in the reservoir, upstream of the city on the River Laver at Birkby Nab farm, will gradually drain away downstream.
Guests can visit the nearby city of Haifa, a horse-riding farm, the Ein Hod artists' village and go hiking in the forest.
In New York City, for example, travel agencies routinely farm out chores like updating frequent-flyer credits to online boutiques as far away as India.
The farm's first prototype was built in 2009 and since October this year the fully operating farm has been supplying one of city's supermarkets with weekly deliveries of its greens.
The hillbilly and the Mexico City princess married in 1962 and moved to a farm in Centralia, Wash.
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Farm stays are also mutually beneficial: city slickers can develop a connection with local residents and, perhaps, a culture much different than their own.
That would require every farmer to sustain nearly two city dwellers, which a shortage of fertiliser, farm machinery and fuel precludes.
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It supplements the produce and other farm products his restaurants in Philadelphia and Atlantic City normally receive.
The couple moved to Oregon in mid-January, after a two-day drive from Los Angeles, hopeful the farm would give them the needed break from city life and a chance to focus on finding new careers.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, situated in the heart of America's farm country, concluded earlier this year that the surge in farmland prices had been driven by a combination of low interest rates and high commodity prices.
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And the farm is constantly involved in partnering projects with the neighborhood and city.
Although we lived in the city, my father never let go of his youth as an Irish farm boy.
Planners at Nottingham City Council unanimously voted on Wednesday against plans for two turbines at Grove Farm, near Clifton Bridge.
To that end, Vinery is standing seven stallions at its farm in Poughquag, about 80 miles north of New York City.
And so now, after a long odyssey, the product that stands for farm-town virtue is managed from Rye Brook, near New York city.
Further south still, just before the town of Mitzpe Ramon and opposite the ruined Nabataean city of Avdat , the Carmey Avdat Winery is a family-run, ecological farm that cultivates grapes using ancient irrigation terraces.
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