Depending on how you plan to grow your food, you may need to apply for an urban agriculture development permit.
You will need a development permit if you are:
- Growing a fruit or vegetable garden in an industrial zone
- Growing fruits and vegetables outdoors and selling your food products on-site
- Growing fruits and vegetables indoors and are:
- In a commercial or industrial building
- Selling your food products on or off-site (see Selling Your Food Products)
- Building a hen enclosure (permit should be applied for at the same time as your urban hen keeping licence)
If you are a resident or a non-profit group who wants to grow fruits and vegetables for your own consumption in your backyard or in a community garden, you will not need a development permit.
Fee Schedule
Please see page 9 for the appropriate fees for your development permit application.
Residential Development Permits
Required for:
- Urban Gardens in an industrial area
- Urban Outdoor Farms
Download Residential Permit Application Form
(check off the 'Description of Work' as “Urban Garden” or “Urban Outdoor Farm")
Commercial Development Permits
Required for:
- Urban Indoor Farms
- Greenhouses, plant nurseries, garden centres (commercial building fees apply)
Download Commercial Permit Application Form
(check off “Other” and write in “Urban Indoor Farm”)
Selling Your Food Products
A business licence is required if you want to sell your fruits, vegetables, and other products on:
- Your property
- An Urban Outdoor Farm
- An Urban Indoor Farm
Note: You can apply for the business licence at the same time as your development permit.
Animal products, such as chickens, bees, honey, eggs, are not allowed to be sold!
A business licence is not required if you want to sell your fruits, vegetables, and other products at an Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development-approved farmers’ market.
The Zoning Bylaw
The City wants to better support and measure the effects of urban agriculture. The Zoning Bylaw was changed to set rules for food production in Edmonton and fulfill policies in The Way We Grow and fresh: Edmonton’s Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy.
Contact Us
Development Services
Email developmentpermits@edmonton.ca
Phone In Edmonton: 311 | Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311