While we do our winter number crunching, Farming Concrete Trainer Beryl Benbow has offered up stories, photos, and histories from her trainings in NYRP gardens this past summer. Thanks Beryl! These photos make us nostalgic for last summer and excited for 2012. Reposted with permission from http://janebaileymg.com/farming-concrete/. All photos are by Beryl Benbow. My first demo … Continued
Open Space Institute, our fiscal sponsor, has included us in this month’s newsletter alongside a few other great food & farming organizations. Check out the article here to read about us, Brooklyn Food Coalition, and the Rondout Valley Growers Association. From the preservation of huge swaths of farmland in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills … Continued
Thanks to the incredibly talented Valerie Schenkman, we now have a beautiful informational video about our project. Take a moment to step into the tranquility and beautiful footage of NYC’s community gardens, and learn more about our open, community-based, citizen science project! Farming Concrete NYC Informational Video from Valerie & Schenkman on Vimeo. Huge thank … Continued