Overdue Project Update

The Farming Concrete team is way overdue for an update with our wonderful followers and gardeners – here’s what we’ve been up to in the last two months: We’ve been exhibiting the results of the study so far at Living Concrete/Carrot City, an urban agriculture exhibit at the New School. Come check us out soon … Continued

Farming Concrete on LunchNYC

LunchNYC is a new program on NYC Media that looks at food in the city. Farming Concrete is excited to be featured in the very first episode, during a scale delivery and crop inventory of Tremont Community Garden in the Bronx, one of the La Familia Verde gardens. The first episode is entitled Urban Farming: … Continued

Data entry! Some highlights in the tedium

We’ve been super busy the last few weeks busily mapping gardens before the harvest is over (please lend a few hours to help! It’s really fun and will help enormously!), and collecting Harvest Logs from dedicated gardeners with scales to enter into the database. Taking a break from the repetitive, tedious process of entering each … Continued