Cleveland Named a #4 on Travel + Leisure's World's Most Visionary Cities List

This post is a proud one- Travel + Leisure is a magazine of godly proportions. I have many times flipped through their glossy pages admiring (and sometimes visiting) the glamorous places they feature. I am so pleased to announce the city of Cleveland has graced their pages to hold the #4 spot on the list of Most Visionary Cities. What Travel + Leisure had to say about us:

4. Cleveland: Urban Farming

While Cleveland's forlorn steel mills may be crumbling, the city's shopping malls are springing to life—plant life, that is. In the former Galleria at Erieview mall, a project dubbed Gardens Under Glass is helping the mall morph into a greenhouse. Sunlight streaming through the glassed-in atrium, as well as a hydroponics system, ensures the lush growth of vegetables such as spinach, lettuce, and tomatoes. Once harvested, the veggies are sold at the mall's weekly farmers' market.

Cleveland- GREEN City

Cleveland.com has been reporting on some great Cleveland news all week, but especially great to me was the recap on Cleveland Farmers Markets in 2010. Living away from Cleveland for six years, in much bigger urban environments, it was sometimes hard to find great local produce (even more so on the cheap).
So I loved hearing that Cleveland is now a top contender in most farmers markets in the nation. Here is a quote from Cleveland.com :

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently updated its national list of farmers markets, Ohio ranked the seventh highest in overall number of registered markets at 213, and sixth in the top list of winter markets, with 34. It was also the ninth highest in percentage growth of markets with a 36 percent growth from 2009 to this year.

Its really great news knowing Clevelanders can eat local, fresh, and affordable all year long. On that note, its lunch time here....