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East New York Farms! consists of a network of two urban farms, UCC Youth Farm and the Pink Houses Community Farm, and a community garden, Fresh Farm, to grow produce for the farmers market. [2] [1] A majority of the families in East New York are Black and Hispanic with approximately 35% being immigrants, many of whom have agricultural backgrounds.
Due to loss of farmland the food being produced on the small regional farms was not making it into New York City causing a lack of fresh, decent food in the city. [8] [9] The problem is further explained in "The Cornucopia Project" that details how from 1960 to 1980 the number of farms decreased by 28 percent and the land in farms by 19.5%. [11]
The second location was built in 2012 atop the Brooklyn Navy Yard [1] and the third farm, established in 2019, is located at Liberty View in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. All three locations encompass 140,000 square feet of space, making it the largest rooftop farm in New York City. [2] Annually, 80,000 pounds (36,000 kg) of organic vegetables are grown.
Gotham Greens is an American fresh food and indoor farming company founded and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, [1] that grows local produce year-round in greenhouses, with its lettuces, herbs, salad kits, salad dressings, dips and cooking sauces sold under its brand name. Another view of the Gotham Greens facility in Davis, California
462 Halsey also correlates the hands-on work in the farm with food equity and racial justice. In 2013, the community farm began working with GrowNYC to distribute its Fresh Food Box for low cost. [5] In 2015, the group recognized the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement by posting a sign in support on their fence. [2]
In addition, small stores in town, like Park Deli, QuickChek, Krauszer's and a Kosher supermarket, have all stepped up to provide extra products and produce to fill the gap, borough officials have ...
An autumn farmers' market in Farmington, Michigan A farmers' market at twilight in Layyah, Pakistan Blueberries in late July 2023 at the Jean Talon Market in Montreal. A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, [1] [2] also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary [3] [4]) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.
The Queens County Farm Museum, also known as Queens Farm, is a 47-acre (190,000 m 2) farm in the Floral Park and Glen Oaks neighborhoods of Queens in New York City.The farm occupies the city's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland (in operation since 1697), and is still a working farm today.