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Count Your Crops!

5 July 2012 No Comment

It’s the beginning of July, and Farming Concrete is in full swing. We train several gardens in record keeping every week and help them conduct inventory of their crops, or Crop Count. We got new hanging scales this year, making the project more visible in gardens and also more convenient. Want a scale? Sign up here! All NYC community gardens and school gardens are eligible. You can also download our forms for free and get your garden on the map with just a Crop Count. Contact us for more info.

Farming Concrete's new hanging scales

This year also brought us a new crop of trainers – some veterans and some new. All are gardeners from across the city and are excited to visit your garden. Meet the 2012 trainers:

Practice Crop Count at Prospect Heights Community Farm

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Farming Concrete: Measuring Food Production in NYC’s Community Gardens

The American Community Garden Association defines a community garden as "any piece of land gardened by a group of people." These spaces - peaceful enclaves where one can reconnect with their soil, food, and fellow gardeners - are meaningful across age groups and cultures, and serve as valuable assets for community identity. Healthy food production in community gardens is especially relevant today, when the number of New York City residents who rely on emergency food and lack access to affordable fresh produce in grocery stores is increasing. In the context of a dysfunctional food system, urban agriculture is becoming evermore indispensable.

No one knows just how much food NYC community gardeners are growing. That is what this project seeks to measure.