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New York City Wants the Dirt on Urban Soils
Wise people never take their health for granted. Wise city farmers and gardeners go one step further: They never take their — or their soil’s — health for granted. Contaminants such as lead and other...
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Plant Paradise
© Photo by Margarida Correia. See caption at bottom of article. The city’s best-kept-secret garden could not have found a better hiding place: NYU Medical Center’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation...
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Where Food Really Comes From
©Photo by Margarida Correia. See caption at bottom of article. Where does your food come from? For a really good answer, get yourself to the Brooklyn Botanic’s Herb Garden. The new garden traces the...
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NYC Tree Giveaway Spring Schedule
New York City seems to be on track to meet the challenge it set for itself in 2007: planting 1 million trees by 2017. The MillionTreesNYC campaign — part of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC initiative to...
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A Little TLC for City Trees
© Photo by Margarida Correia Urban street trees tend to die young, but with a little TLC from committed volunteer stewards they can live much longer. That’s the major finding of a five-year study...
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Reflections on Dirt and High-Tech Urban Farming
New York City’s urban farms and community gardens have never been more popular. In 2005, they were still relatively unknown. Now they’re part of city farm tours. Just this month the Bronx Borough...
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Hearing on NYC Food Bills Draws Scores of Supporters, Few Critics
New Yorkers showed overwhelming support for two food-related bills at a public hearing convened last month by the New York City Council Governmental Affairs Division. The proposed bills back...
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Peanut Planting in the Bronx
©Photo by Margarida Correia (caption at bottom of post) A clutch of enthusiastic gardeners — trowels and soil scrapers in hand — readied for the special planting that was about to take place at Drew...
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Urban Farm Builds Roots at Battery Park
© Photo by Margarida Correia. See caption at bottom of post. The temporary one-acre urban farm that opened in April at the Battery is not so temporary anymore. It will shift to a new location in the...
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2011 NYC Urban Ag: A Nine-Month Review
The urban agriculture movement in New York City has made enormous progress this year. New legislation favoring urban farming was introduced. New farms opened. There’s even a new farm school. It all...
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Mayoral Candidates Grilled on Food Policy Views
©Photo by Margarida Correia. See caption at bottom of this post. New York City local food advocates on Wednesday got a taste of how the city’s mayoral candidates think about food. In one-on-one...
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