Farming Concrete

Farming Concrete is an open, community-based research project to measure how much food is grown in New York City’s community gardens. Calculating the area, weight, and monetary value of food grown in community gardens will highlight these spaces as a critical land use in New York City and will help define the place of community gardening in the fabric of the urban food system. It looks at the yield of a small raised bed in NYC, determines how many of our gardens might actually be considered farms in the national agricultural census, and ensures that we pay homage to the hard work and dedication of community gardeners over the last several decades who have truly made the success of urban agriculture possible today.