As part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City on Saturday, we designed a poster to display with Green My Bodega and Foodshed Market at a booth called Mapping Present and Imagined Food Systems. It was a fun opportunity to reflect on the 2010 season and to try to summarize the project for an … Continued
The idea to quantify the food grown in community gardens is not new. It has been accomplished in several cities in the past few years, and the Farming Concrete research team would like to give many thanks to the studies that came before us. While these previous studies were not necessarily community-based, they gave our research … Continued
Reporter Neil Genzlinger published an exciting article in the Metropolitan section of this past Sunday’s New York Times, highlighting the work of Farming Concrete, as well as BK Farmyards and Hoyt Street Community Garden, since farming is important and there are different techniques for this, for example unlike transplanters of years ago, modern planting machines are … Continued