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Based on ethnographic participant observation and interviews over four farming seasons at \"Greenlinks,\" an urban farm in Buffalo, NY, this dissertation contributes to research on friendship, racial and social justice, sustainable farming, and embodied knowledge. The first chapter describes three types of friendship interactions involving food in which people accrue tangible and intangible benefits, demonstrating social reasons for cultivating these interactions in food-oriented spaces. Focusing on the postindustrial community surrounding Greenlinks farm, the second chapter highlights the importance of material justice-the role objects, structures, and spaces play in geographic experiences of inequality-and how small shifts in built environments can address socio-spatial issues. Merging sustainability with the concept of ecosystem engineering, the third chapter describes Greenlinks farmers as sustainable ecosystem engineers, growers that act in partnership or collaboration with their environment by paying close attention to impacts across the entire ecosystem as they cultivate the soil and produce food. Finally, the last chapter explores sensuous forms of knowledge-ways people know and understand food through sensory perceptions, emotions, and memories—and how these sensuous ways of knowing are often devalued compared to rational considerations such as money, time, and transportation. Altogether, these findings demonstrate the relational importance of food: a centerpiece in people's interactions with their own body, with other people, and with the communities and ecosystems around them. In so doing, these findings reveal how a range of contemporary social problems can be addressed by reimagining how people grow and access these edible and ecological items.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.**"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Greenlinks Urban Farm: Friendship, Food and Environmentalism in a Postindustrial City"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Hatton, Erin","Sociology"],"dc:creator":["Strohl, Jared; 0000-0001-5523-6668"],"dc:date":["2025-02-25T23:23:06Z","2020","2020-07-27 11:22:46"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","Urban agriculture (UA) represents an important intersection between food, environmentalism, and urban studies. 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