SETPEMBER 19TH, 2011 — Chicago is no second city to New York: in urban agriculture, she ranks high as a site of vegetable production, great use of abandoned urban spaces, and (crucially) city support for …
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Monticello
OCTOBER 5TH, 2010 — Earlier this September, I visited Monticello with two fellow farmhands from the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm. The visit came after many years of reading, admiring and wondering about the development of …
Goats: Living Lawnmowers
MAY 23RD, 2010 — For the past few weeks, I’ve been waking at 5:45 am to a sound not often heard in Brooklyn, New York: the soft, and then loud, and then louder, cry of …
WNYC Features Food Not Lawns
APRIL 11TH, 2010 — This week, I joined food-not-lawns revolutionary Fritz Haeg, borough president Scott Stringer, and Growing Power’s Will Allen on New York’s own WNYC radio. The conversation, a two hour evening event led …
Winterizing Sky-High Farmland
DECEMBER 26TH, 2009 — Winter is a much-awaited season for me. The anticipation starts for me in August, when after a long (and busy day), I’ll start looking for a place to farm away the …
Killing Chicken(s)
DECEMBER 12TH, 2009 — I was born and raised vegetarian, and take a practical approach to my decision to continue the practice of selective eating: I learn how to kill animals. Simply put, if it …
Final Summer Visits to Rooftop Farms
AUGUST 25TH, 2009 — Summer made itself obvious today: third and fourth-grade visitors from the Police Athletic League braved the morning heat to plant and mulch at Rooftop Farms. Our favorite morning activity? Using chocolate …
Liberty View Farms
AUGUST 16TH, 2009 — Liberty View Farms, an hour and a half north of New York City, is part apple orchard and part paradise. I drove up yesterday with Paula Crossfield and her friend Melanie …
What Rain Does to Farmers
JUNE 25TH, 2009 — This year, the first two weeks of June have had more rain than any past June in recent history. It’s a bummer for our upstate farmers, who have found themselves dealing …
Greetings from the Bleak Midwest
APRIL 8TH, 2009 — In the grand tradition of Sesame Street, here are two discongruitous objects–now, can you guess which one doesn’t belong? The tricky answer is that, in fact, both images have a connection …