F A R M S C H O O L

 - NY, NY -

Yes! Take classes - at night and the weekends, if you so please - to learn more about Urban Ag. 

Get certified via a 2 year program, or take individual classes. 

Get schooled for 1 week, or 6. 

Pretty sweet, right?

Do Ya Dig IT ?

- NY, NY -

Photo Via Lizchristygarden.org

Liz Cristy, artist, environmentalist and gardener activist lived in the Lower East Side in the 1960's and 70's, promoting long lasting and healthy community green spaces in New York City. In 73' when she gathered several friends and community participants to clean out a vacant lot on the corner of Bowery and Houston, the Green Gorillas were born, and so continued as the members proliferated other city owned lots initiating the community gardening movement in the City.

Photo Via Nycgovparks.org

A favorite spot can be found at the 6th and B Garden in the East Village:

6th and B Garden Collage Sculpture by Eddie Boro's, 1998. Photo via Flickr Mollynme80's

The 6th & B Garden - Photo via Flickr HugLion

Corner of 6th and B circa 1972 - Photo via 6bgarden.org

To Have Visited...

- Long Island City, Queens, NY -

...With Only a Cellphone Camera ...

Brooklyn Grange through the eye of a camera phone

Awwww, to have arrived in nyc and realize one has left the real camera back in New England! But a trip to Brooklyn Grange to visit Ben Flanner, Head Farmer and organizer for a chat, was well worth the visit; just in time to see the plant beds, and roof be laid to rest for the winter.

A SCIENCE BARGE !

- NY, NY -

New York Sun Works

These guys are fantastic.

Long Island City, NY

NEW YORK CITY I LOVE YOU

photo Carol Miltimore: KICKSTART : NYTIMES

Pictured here, tucked away and above the New York City skyline, is Brooklyn Grange. Perched on a 40,000 square foot rooftop, the garden is a fantastic representation of the growing influence of urban gardening around the city, and its boroughs.

To Smell a Growing Trend

"Although associated with hipster culture, the birth of urban agriculture came before the revival of 80s fashion and over sized sunglasses. Urban agriculture grew up from concrete foundations in the 1970s. The 70s saw the death of U.S. manufacturing, as well as a mass exodus from urban centers to..."

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