In many cities in Europe, new forms of using space for the cultivation of food have emerged, supposed to create climate-friendly social worlds at local level, aside from the global flows of goods, capital and people. Ethnographic research shows that these local practices may vary widely. This chapter presents in-depth case studies on urban farming movements in the city of Leipzig, Germany and the city of Nantes in France. In Leipzig, we see that the movement is strongly oriented towards building a more environmentally friendly, sustainable post-growth economy, whereas in Nantes, it is above all aiming at overcoming social inequality and exclusion. Through their projects, the participants respond to forces in urban development they perceive as alien and opposed to their own needs and interests. They encourage their fellow citizens to take back local spaces and cultivate them for community subsistence, thus reclaiming them for communal and public purposes from the pressures of ongoing marketization. An urban everyday politics is enacted, articulating interests through spatial interventions and the creation of new heterogeneous spaces which are deployed against the homogenizing forces of state and market. These terrestrial food spaces form both the arena and the object of political struggle.