Meet John Cannizzo. John Cannizzo works for the Horticulture Society of New York as the program director of the Green Team. He is a unique New York City farmer with a long background of using gardening as therapy. One of his incredible projects was starting a garden in St. Vincent’s Hospital’s yard where people suffering … Continue Reading
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Tenth Acre Farms Faces New Challenges: Stay Tuned for Volunteer Opportunities
Borrowed from their own self-description, Tenth Acre Farms was started in early 2009 by Jordan Hall, Bennett Wilson, and Adam Wilson, in Mr. Hall’s backyard, and soon expanded to the abandoned basketball court at St. Cecilia’s School in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Their goal was, and still is, to provide the freshest, healthiest, and most beautiful vegetables … Continue Reading
Volunteers Needed in Brownsville this Month to Help Start up a School Farm
This March, be prepared to get dirty in Brooklyn at a new school farm in Brownsville. The project is pioneered by Nora Painten, who has experience with a Brownsville school garden through her work with Slow Food NYC. While riding her bike through the neighborhood, Nora noticed an empty lot that got lots of sunlight … Continue Reading
New Community Garden Coming to Park Slope
It’s been a vision for a long time. A vacant lot on the corner of 4th Ave and Sackett St. was taken over by The Department of Environmental Protection due to underground construction on a water shaft tunnel. As a result of construction, the lot will never be able to support a building. The DEP … Continue Reading
Impressions from the Solidarity Rally for Small Farmers vs. Monsanto
An important rally was held yesterday in Foley Square outside the courthouse in support of a group of independent farmers who are challenging agribusiness giant Monsanto for misusing their patents to terrorize small farmers. Occupy Wall Street Food Justice, Occupy Big Food, and Food Democracy Now! hosted the event and had various speakers address the … Continue Reading
Lend a New Kind of Support to NYC Farms this Winter: Protect them from a Walmart Invasion
Now that Walmart is fully rooted in rural towns throughout America, they have to open stores in urban areas to continue their growth. New York City is clearly the focus of their new strategy. They have spent millions of dollars lobbying in New York in 2011 and have an entire campaign dedicated to wooing New … Continue Reading
This Week’s Featured Farm: S.A.V.E. Farms
Christopher Toole and Anya Pozdeeva decided to escape their unsatisfactory jobs at the bank by starting a new, urban fish farm in the Bronx. They established themselves at The Point, a community center in Hunts Point, by setting up 50-gallon recycling bins and raising what Christopher calls “Bronx Best Blue Tilapia.” In exchange for use … Continue Reading