The human species is fast becoming an urban dweller (in 100 years they have risen from 15% to 50 % of the population (Jones 2008)), this trend is predicted to increase for at least the next fifty years as the population boom continues to an approximate 10 billion[1]. As urban development increases to tend to the growing world population (6.8 billion presently[2]) food and its systems will become an imperative issue to handle. How are we to change systems of and consumption of food to make it sustainable? Can humanities existence become sustainable on this planet? With increasingly bulging cities will we be able to hold onto our moral fabric and sense of community? These are questions that are compelling people and governments to recognise that we have to alter our ways and where better to innovate than at the core of modern humanity, the city. There is a movement afoot; people have returned to growing food in the urban environment, reminiscent of World War Victory Gardens. This responsive development has its various motives and effects; from aiming to increase self-sufficiency, to building relationships and trust in communities, or producing reliable, healthy food or purely as a form of recreation and relaxation. The movement s case is strengthened by the attention it is getting from public figures and governments. The presidential approval of urban homesteading was shown by the inauguration of a five acre White House kitchen garden in April last year by the new president, Barack Obama. In the UK itself the support for this cause can be gauged through the escalating number of celebrity and popular TV shows that now back this trend of becoming closer to nature and food. This study will explore the current movement, its causes and effects, and will display how it is something we should embrace for its social and environmental benefits.