This month’s issue of Wired (16.09) features a piece titled “Clive Thompson on Why Urban Farming Isn’t Just for Foodies,” in which Thompson reflects on the timeliness of creating urban farms as a response to the problems we face, including environmental impact, food security and even the wave of obesity in the United States.

Though brief, the article serves to ask why we aren’t proactively growing food in vacant urban plots of land to bring about a new age of Victory Gardens (a term from World War II efforts to encourage citizens to produce their own food locally). “It worked: The effort grew roughly 40 percent of the fresh veggies consumed in the US in 1942 and 1943,” writes Thompson.

We’d like to hear about what you’re doing to grow your own food…whether in your backyard, balcony or windowsill. If you missed it, check out our post on The Last Organic Outpost for a peek at an urban community garden in Houston’s fifth ward.