This Friday, granted I can escape the dungeons of my Firestone Library campus employment, I will be going to visit the Brooklyn Grange Farm in Long Island City, Queens with the Majora Carter Group! A commercial farming business, the Brooklyn Grange is located on NYC rooftops and grows vegetables in the city to sell to local people and businesses. In the vein of urban farming and horticultural infrastructure, the goal of the system is to improve access to healthy and good food, to connect city people more closely to farms and food production, and to make urban farming a viable enterprise and livelihood.
A large problem of inner city life is minimal access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. With exciting innovation like this, city roofs are bringing better food closer to the American urban population.
As the ULTIMATE green roof, I can't wait to see what 37-18 Northern Boulevard, in Long Island City, Queens has to hold.
mmm. vegetables.
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