Future food production will confront many difficulties. Global agriculture is under stress due to the projected 9.6 billion people on the planet by 2050, increasing urbanization, dwindling arable land, and weather extremes brought on by climate change. The percentage of people who reside in cities will increase to 70% by 2030 from the current level of over 50%. The importance of the food issue is growing as a result of the extraordinarily rapid population expansion, loss of arable land, dietary changes, rising bioenergy use, and climate change. Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas. Raised bed systems with appropriate plant growing media improve productivity in urban farming. Urban agriculture offers the opportunity to provide fresh, local food to urban communities. However, urban agriculture can only be successfully embedded in urban areas if a good food production system is established. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of various growing media for vegetables in raised beds. The experiment was conducted in 2022 at Near East University Nicosia, North Cyprus. Three different treatments were used in wooden raised beds with two replications each: S: control soil, SF: soil + farmyard manure [1:1], and SFPP: soil+ farmyard manure+ peat + perlite [1:1:1:0.5]. In each raised bed three vegetables: lettuce, onion and pepper seedlings were cultivated, various growth parameters such as height of the plant, no of leaves, weight of the plant and stem diameter for lettuce and onion while for peppers length of the plant, stem diameter, no of primary branches and mean yield of five harvestings of pepper fruit were used as parameters. Findings have justified that the usage of treatment SF and SFPP had significantly improved the plant growth and productivity of all three vegetables, treatment (SFPP) over all performed best in all parameters of three crops while treatment (SF) also performed really well. However, as compared to the other treatments, treatment (S) control soil did not exhibit significant growth. As a result, treatments SF and SFPP can be considered appropriate as growing media in raised beds for lettuce, onion, and pepper in urban farming. The results shown that the soil with farmyard manure is extremely valuable for healthy growing vegetables in raised beds.