This is such a neat report on how much food community gardener's in NYC produce, a great way to see the impact of local growing.
Check it out: Farming Concrete
Hi all,
The Farming Concrete team is pleased to present the results from our first year of measuring food production in NYC community gardens! Check out the report and article here. In 2010, 110 community gardeners weighed their harvests and crop inventory was conducted in 67 community gardens as part of the project (out of 500 community gardens in NYC). We used the average yields from the gardeners who weighed their harvests to estimate that in those 67 gardens, 87,700 lbs of fresh produce was grown on just 1.7 acres, worth more than $200,000. This year we hope to scale up and, if we're lucky, reach for an estimate for the whole city. Explore the results in more detail using our interactive webmap.
If you're in NYC and interested in signing up for this year's count, click here and we'll get you going right away! School gardens are invited to participate this year - in fact we've already delivered our first scale to a rooftop school garden in Brooklyn. More info on the different ways to participate here. If you're not in NYC but would like to get something like this started in your area, contact us directly - gardens@farmingconcrete.org.
HUGE thank you to all the record keepers who helped make last year a success! We're excited to get going again this year. Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.
Best,
Mara
Mara
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Mara Gittleman
908.787.2711
908.787.2711
Farm Assistant, Adjunct Lecturer
Kingsborough Community College
Great post! Thanks for all the info on how to farm.
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