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Community Gardens

Living Concrete/Carrot City: What do you want from your city’s soil?

What do you want from your city’s soil? There are many homegrown and local agriculture ideas in Living Concrete/Carrot City, an exhibition currently on view at Parsons The New School for Design, and they’re worth a look. The projects range from farm visits for families to bodega research, education and...

Recap | Amplify: Creative and Sustainable Lifestyles on the Lower East Side

Amplify is an exhibition that documents how the Lower East Side is undergoing a process of evolution and reinvention – especially its community gardens.

Urban Agriculture: East New York: Asset Mapping

In this chapter, we hear from Perry Winston, an architect formerly with the Pratt Center, who has worked with the community since the early 1990s.

Urban Agriculture: East New York: Local Farmers

A documentary video in five chapters that explains how East New York’s urban agriculture movement evolved.