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 efficient and expensive, catering to big agricultural operations in farming.
. We’re excited that projects, particularly research projects, that feature local knowledge and simple measuring tools, are gaining mainstream attention – citizen science and community-based research have the potential to change the way we create, think about, and use data.

Concrete Farm Grows Chard (Callaloo, Too)

By Neil Genzlinger

We here at the Incompetent Gardeners Association of Greater New York can only dream of making a patch of land look as good as the Hoyt Street Garden did last Sunday. The garden, a postage-stamp-size community effort at Hoyt Street and Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, had about 250 yellow daffodils in full bloom that day against a pachysandra background, with five benches beckoning. The word “oasis” certainly came to mind.

Read the rest of the article here.