By Anna Yoder | Columnist  *Editor's note: This article was edited from its print edition to correct the spelling of Carol Gonzalez's name. As an avid gardener, I arrived at the Northside with many gardening tools: multiple sized shovels and spades, hoes and rakes, a mattock, sledge hammers, a pitch...

Photo by Aaron Dobler Jana Thompson keeps bees and chickens on her property in Central Northside's  Mexican War Streets. Thompson led a discussion about urban farming March 7 at the Carnegie Library-Allegheny. By Aaron Dobler Jana Thompson, an urban farming advocate and Mexican War Streets resident,...