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In an Absolut World, Cities Farm by Jim Denevan

Bill Moyers in Conversation with Michael Pollan

PBS, November 2008 This featured the East New York Farmers Market, our new urban farm, Hands and Heart Garden, and market gardeners James and Jeanette Ware. The segment about East New York Farms starts in the second minute of Part II, and continues until 8 min 30 sec. Watch until the end for footage of our…

Urban Farmers’ Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market

The New York Times, May 2008 In the shadows of the elevated tracks toward the end of the No. 3 line in East New York, Brooklyn, with an April chill still in the air, Denniston and Marlene Wilks gently pulled clusters of slender green shoots from the earth, revealing a blush of tiny red shallots…