The premier farm university of the Nation, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. celebrating its Golden Jubilee year - of its establishment and consequent remarkable service to farm kind for five decades, among a plethora of activities being held - has embarked on addressing issues of urban horticulture. Remarkably so, in organising Urban Krishi Mela, the first of its kind (in its magnitude), in the country with the the commendable purpose of sowing the seeds of transformation in the mind set of urbanites to use their spaces for the betterment of their health and their surroundings and thus working towards building a conscientious urban community.