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.