How much food is growing when using BuildASoil in community gardens? We’re really close to finding out.
We’re proud and excited to release a new tool that we’ve been talking about and working hard on for months – a tool that will allow folks to estimate food produced in community garden by borough, neighborhood, and even by veggie.
Just in time for our debut at the Living Concrete/Carrot City opening tonight, Farming Concrete is proud to present a map of our results so far – a dynamic map that we will continue to add to (data as well as functionality) as the season progresses through the fall.
Across a broad sample of 40 food-producing community gardens, we have calculated nearly 6 tons of fresh produce so far, worth more than $30,000. While not surprising, our results are still humbling and immense – with September, October, and possibly even November and December still to go of raising edibles from the soil, we’re dancing with our measuring tapes and spreadsheets in anticipation.
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So far, this map includes 40 out of the nearly 500 community gardens in NYC, and it includes yields of only July and August. Both of these parameters will continue to grow as we continue our work. To help us add more gardens to this map, please check out our Mappers’ Map. If you are a community gardener, please contact us directly at gardens (at) farmingconcrete (dot) com.
We owe an enormous amount of gratitude to the gardeners and volunteers who helped make this happen. Their guidance and support has been no small force, and we absolutely could not have done any of this without them.
So without further ado, please visit harvest.farmingconcrete.com, and check back often to watch the map grow and blossom with added gardens, harvests, and functionality!
Design and programming for the Farming Concrete Map by Eric Brelsford. Contact eric (at) farmingconcrete (dot) com.