Urban Agriculture AT NYU
We are lucky to be part of a passionate local food community at NYU.
The Sustainability Task Force has a subcommittee for Food and Purchasing that focuses on the way the University uses it’s purchasing power and guides it toward more sustainable and local food products.
Adam Brock, a recent Gallatin Grad and Urban Ag guru of ours, recieved the Gallatin Deans Award in 2008 and wrote Room to Grow: Participatory Landscapes and Urban Agriculture at NYU.
Annie Myers and Carla Fernandez have a Green Grant of their own called Radishes and Rubbish, which is a series of Urban Ag and Waste Facility field trips around the city. (Huge plug for them — their trips are a blast.)
Adam and Annie also have their own blogs focused on sustainable food systems, Wild Green Yonder (Adam) and Thoughts on the Table (Annie).
There’s also Two Birds One Stone, coordinated by the one and only Sami Feld. Two Birds One Stone uses student volunteers to dispose of dining hall food waste by donating it to shelters around the city.
Jennifer Berg, a professor in the Steinhardt School, has a Green Grant from 2007 to start Grow, Cook, Eat, Learn, an urban agriculture project focused on connecting children to gardening.
These are just a few of the resources out there … we’ll update as we find them.
Urban Agriculture OUT of School
The community outside the University itself also provides a resource base.
Just Food, an organization connecting farms with consumers around the city, also provides support for Community Gardens, and even runs a chicken support program!
Green Thumb supports Community Gardens around the city through seed and soil supplies and other help.
The Trust for Public Land protects land for public use, ensuring everyone has a place to be outside.
There is a nation-wide student initiative to increase the amount of local food produced and used by Universities, as well as to raise awareness about local food, called the Real Food Challenge. It has an NY – specific website also: RFNY.
Two super cool NYC Urban Farms can be found on the web at: Added Value and East NY Farms!
