Urban farming new york

• If you're interested in the future of the city, you could do worse than to look to New York City.
(Huffington Post)
• Theres little data on the scale of urban farming, but Ackermans report found 15-30 farms in New York, depending on what you count as a farm. Notable non-profit farms have opened in Milwaukee and Oakland, among other cities, but it remains a niche market.
(Reuters)
• New York City (the stores!) is suddenly a farming kind of town (the chores co-author of "Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture" and a researcher at the Centre for Studies in Food Security at Ryerson University in Toronto.
(New York Times)
• new urban farming programs follows a trend that has seen Detroit, Portland, Baltimore, New York, Seattle, Oakland, and other major cities craft programs and laws in recent years to encourage agriculture and gardening within city limits, notes Upton.
(PLANetizen)
• Families in New York City are able to sell an average of $3,000 worth who doesn't yet make what he would consider a livable wage from his urban farming projects — about $15,000. "But we are still a sustainable hobby.
(Yankton Daily Press)
• In 1948, while living in New York, folksinger Woody Guthrie was angered by newspaper and radio accounts of a plane crash near Los Gatos Canyon in Fresno County that killed 32 people, including 28 migrant farm workers who were being deported back Mexico.
(Huffington Post)
• New York City has been adding a number of rooftop farms in Today the NY Times has a big feature about the Big Apples new commercial urban farm boom.
(Gothamist.com)
• Urban rooftop farming has its pluses, no vermin, but like everything else it also has some minuses, too much wind. But the benefits appear to outweigh the disadvantages. As a result, New York will be getting even larger rooftop farms.
(Crain's New York Business)