Despite being one of the world’s largest economies, millions of US residents experience food insecurity, or the lack of adequate access to a healthy diet. This has inflamed crises of public health and drives income-based disparities in disease rates and mortality. Factors contributing to food insecurity include high food prices and inaccessibility of food stores, issues that government programs such as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Plan aim to address. Urban food security projects are community-based programs that aim to address food insecurity at a more local level by affording residents the opportunity to grow produce for themselves and their neighbors. This research aims to identify effective management strategies for such projects by quantifying the effectiveness of various management strategies. A survey of professionals who worked on one such project in the Bay Area in the 1990s and 2000s yielded data quantifying the perceived effectiveness of management strategies employed in response to various challenges faced by the project.