The expansion of the new farm at the yard will double the amount of produce The Grange harvests. This year they should harvest about thirty thousand pounds. At the Yard they are growing tomatoes, salad greens, cucumbers, kale, rainbow chard, herbs, peppers, eggplant and okra.

Lush Skies: Summer Atop The Navy Yard, At Brooklyn Grange’s Newest Rooftop Farm

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It’s true, you know. It’s not a dream. There is a secret world of verdant green fields spreading high above the city’s steamy gray streets. This world is growing, and a ...

 
Added Value has a program called the Urban Farm Corps, where young men and woman work with them on the farm, through an AmeriCorps grant to a program called Green City Force.

Valery Rizzo Captures The Bounty at Added Value Red Hook Farm

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The Added Value Farm in Red Hook is one of the largest and oldest (current) farming projects in Brooklyn.  In 2003, the founders, Ian Marvy and Michael Hurwitz, worked with the Department of Parks to ...

 
Tenth Acre Farms is located in the schoolyard of the former St. Cecilia's School at 215 Richardson St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This is their second year of operation.

Just Do It: Proving a Point with Produce at Greenpoint’s Tenth Acre Farms

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Tenth Acre Farms is located in the schoolyard of the former St. Cecilia's School at 215 Richardson St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This is their second year of operation. “We found out that ...

 
Jordan clipping and holding an abundance of freshly cut thyme.

Harvesting Greenpoint: Valery Rizzo Shoots the Bounty at Tenth Acre Farms

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Tenth Acre Farms in Greenpoint opened in the Spring of 2009. Founders Jordan Hall and Bennett Wilson have a successful film production studio, but when both found themselves Jonesin’ for the farming and gardening ...