Cool People Doing Cool Things: Five Borough Farm Project Update
Kristin Labuz from the Design Trust for Public Space recently posted an update of the Five Borough Farm Project: The Future of Farming in NYC. The project brought together 90 urban farmers, community gardeners, and design professionals to work through the opportunities and challenges for urban farming in the US’s largest city. According to Kristen, the meeting yeilded over 400 pages of transcripts!
From the blog:
Participants discuss urban agriculture at a meeting hosted by the Design Trust for Public Spaces. Photo Courtesy the Design Trust for Public Spaces Blog
Last December, the Design Trust hosted Five Borough Farm: The Future of Farming in NYC, a citywide workshop on urban agriculture. We asked everyone to tell us about their goals, the resources they need to sustain their work, and the ways they evaluate the impacts of their work.
We’re now meeting one-on-one with growers, nonprofits, funders, and city officials to follow-up on what we heard. Our goal in this year-long project is to create a shared framework and tools to help people in the urban agriculture movement learn from each other, demonstrate the value of what they do, strengthen their programs, and reach more people with their work.
Over the next year we’ll continue to report back what we’re learning. We hope you’ll stay involved—please e-mail workshop@designtrust.org with any comments or ideas about what you’d like to see come out of Five Borough Farm.
Check out the full blog post, and keep your eyes out for a “5 Questions With…” segment with Kristin in the coming weeks.
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