yay!!!!

” WILL ALLEN already had the makings of an agricultural dream packed into two scruffy acres in one of Milwaukee’s most economically distressed neighborhoods.

His Growing Power organization has six greenhouses and eight hoophouses for greens, herbs and vegetables; pens for goats, ducks and turkeys; a chicken coop and beehives; and a system for raising tilapia and perch. There’s an advanced composting operation — a virtual worm farm — and a lab that is working on ways to turn food waste into fertilizer and methane gas for energy.”

The New York Times: An Urban Farmer is Rewarded for His Dream

farming in NYC?

New York Local is an article from a 2007 issue of The New Yorker which details some of the urban agricultural initiatives in NYC. In the article, Gopnik details his adventures in trying to procure a chicken to raise in his backyard, as part of a week of ‘locavore’ eating. In his search for products from within the five boroughs, he meets “the originator and keeper of the rooftop beehives of New York City”, David Graves, forages for food in Central Park with ‘Wildman’ Steve Brill, ends up at a tilapia farm at Brooklyn College, and visits the only two working farms within the boroughs, Decker Farm on Staten Island and Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn.