By LinYee Yuan for Field Meridians Sol Bacio: We have our two, half-acre farms: the Youth Farm, where we are now, and Pink Houses with NYCHA, which serves a lot of community gardeners and is comprised mostly of raised beds. We also have two smaller gardens: Fresh Farms, around the corner from here on Livonia,…

Each site will partner with local community-based organization(s) to explore ways to support community members in nutrition and other aspects of lifestyle change. The Lifestyle Medicine Program at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County will collaborate with United Community Centers in Brooklyn. “We are very excited to be able to collaborate to share preventative solutions to community members looking to…

The first of Summit to Serve New York conference, which will address social justice themes, focused on Food Security, took place on Wednesday, April 19th at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life. This half-day gathering featured noted community leaders in the NYC-region food justice movement, diverse speakers from multiple sectors, and organizations serving New Yorkers in the food security…

Green spaces and vacant lots in some of New York’s lowest-income neighborhoods are filled with illegally dumped debris. Check out how East New York Farms’ staff and volunteers took part in this article to make a change!

Brooklyn Book Bodega teamed up with New York Cares to bring volunteers to Brooklyn Book Bodega giveaways alongside our partner organizations like United Community Centers in East New York, Brooklyn. Read on to see what a book giveaway is like and why community members find it essential. 

Thank you Loisa for supporting our mission and dedication to food justice. ⁠⁠In honor of Earth Month, we’re proud to announce our 2% for Justice commitment will support the amazing work that @enyfarms⁠ is doing providing for their community and training local youth in agriculture. 2% of Loisa.com sales in April will directly benefit the…

““We have a lot of fast food options that are available, but not access to higher-quality produce,” said Iyeshima Harris-Ouedraogo, project director of East New York Farms!, which runs three urban farms in the neighborhood, including two based in NYCHA developments.” Check out the full article here.

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ABC’s equity report found that a number of food deserts, locations that have limited access to affordable and nutritious food, exist in the New York area.

East New York Farms is currently fundraising for a new solar powered greenhouse and compost program to grow its community services. Click here to read the BK Reader article.

Check out Project Director, Iyeshima Harris and Youth Intern, Jayden Shack speak with Vice News on the term Food Justice in the East New York community.

As the COVID-19 pandemic health and economic toll rises worldwide, people are awakening to the harsh reality that, at a certain point, any given country could suffer from a food shortage. It is thus necessary to explore healthy agricultural methods. 

Food regimes and (farmers) markets in Brooklyn, USA, and Suva, Fiji. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2020.093.020

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How New York treats its community gardens could change if a comprehensive urban agriculture plan is adopted.

Building Healthy NYCHA Communities Through Food was a multi-year community engagement initiative spearheaded by UNH. Coached by UNH, settlement houses mobilized, engaged and empowered NYCHA residents of all ages to improve NYCHA residents’ access to healthy food and reduce cost and other barriers to its consumption.  

Building Healthy NYCHA Communities Through Food was a multi-year community engagement initiative spearheaded by UNH. Coached by UNH, settlement houses mobilized, engaged and empowered NYCHA residents of all ages to improve NYCHA residents’ access to healthy food and reduce cost and other barriers to its consumption.    

Edible Brooklyn The barren roof scapes you see from the elevated track don’t hint that you’re entering the neighborhood with the most community gardens in the city.

East New York Farmer’s Market Watch our youth and some of our vendors speak about their experience and the benefits of the ENYF! Farmer’s Market.

BK Reader The legislation would require the city to analyze the potential of urban farming and to create a comprehensive urban agriculture plan to support urban gardeners and farmers.  

Urban Agriculture Strikes A Win Brooklyn elected officials announced joint sponsored legislation to expand urban agriculture and maintain community shared space at Ashford Street Abundant Garden on Wednesday, August 15.

Culinary Heritage and Food Justice Beneath the clatter of the elevated subway in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York is a garden full of vegetables you won’t find on local grocery stores shelves, including a healthy plot of tall callaloo.

WNYC, October 2012 Dora Hinds grew up as a city girl in her native Guyana, but that didn’t stop her from creating her own agricultural oasis when she moved to the Nehemiah houses in East New York, Brooklyn, several years ago.

East New York’s Flourishing Caribbean Gardens New York Times, October 2012 Today, the place to unearth dasheen, and dozens of other Caribbean mainstays, is East New York and the neighborhood’s 60 community gardens.

America’s Heartland, Episode 418, Urban Agriculture “Urban” agriculture is alive and well in the heart of “The Big Apple.”

CUNY Interactive Journalism, December 2009 But with only a handful of full-service grocery stores in East New York, no major progress is yet visible. Indeed the East New York Food Coop, at 419 New Lots Ave. just closed down. East New York Farmers Market is one way the community is addressing the problem.

Daily News, December 2009 An East New York community garden is picking up the leaves where the city left off.

Brooklyn Downtown Star, March 2009 A closer look at the farmers market in East New York reveals the neighborhood – and other high-density, lower-income urban areas like it – does, in fact, represent the next logical front in the burgeoning green food movement.

Urban Omnibus A five-part series that covers the factors contributing to the development of urban agriculture in East New York.

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…

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…