The Bed-Stuy Farm in Brooklyn, NY provides 7,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables every month to around 4,000 residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where healthy produce is otherwise difficult to find. Unfortunately, this vitally important urban farm is in danger of being torn up and paved over in order to repay a debt owed by a non-profit housing development group that had left the property to languish unused until the Brooklyn Rescue Mission reclaimed the land to provide food for an emergency food pantry.
Our friend Kerry Trueman recently wrote an excellent post about the battle for the Bed-Stuy farm on the Green Fork Blog, where she pointed out that while affordable housing is an important pursuit, other lots should be considered by the city instead, in order to preserve this remarkable example of urban agriculture that benefits the neighborhood in a variety of ways. As I mentioned the other day in my post about an urban farm in the South Bronx, green spaces such as these provide desperately needed healthy foods to the under-served community, as well as an educational center and a beautiful and quiet space for neighbors, young and old, to gather and celebrate life.
Watch this video, a Grace project directed by Dulce Fernandes and sign the petition below to help save the Bed-Stuy Farm:
*hat tip to Civil Eats
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I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The lack of healthy food in Bushwick and Bed-Stuy, which I often visit on my bike, is a serious problem. Urban farms like this can provide the necessary fresh food to help combat the move towards utterly processed foods–and all the problems it creates. Obesity comes to mind first and foremost.
You’re absolutely right Prabhas, thanks for your comment. Let’s hope the Bed-Stuy Farm can stay and that more community gardens in the area sprout up.
Please go into the heart and see that this is a wonderful program that needs to continue. All beings deserve the best and freshest food. Not another parking lot or blg.!
Thanks for the comment Sheryl! Be sure to sign the petition to help protect the Bed-Stuy Farm!
please save this farm.
Please let’s do the right thing…
Urban farms like this one already are and will continue to be critical for the health and wellness of our urban populations!
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We need more urban farms like this one in BedStuy!!
Do the right thing.
Love your body! Only feed it healthy food
The last thing they need is more asphalt. Healthy food is more important!
The last thing they need is more asphalt. Healthy food is more important!
Save the farm!
Save the farm!!!
Let it grow!!
Please save this farm!
Do the right thing - please save this farm!
I believe in this Cause.
Let’s Save This Farm!
imagine if we had dozens of these around the city…much better than parking lots and luxury condos
Save this farm!
save the farm
Please save this farm!
PLEASE SAVE THIS FARM!!!!!
Good luck guys!
Save the farm!
Local farms are crucial for the Green movement! We need to be able to self-sustain without having to have our food shipped from hundreds of miles away.
North Brooklyn needs more of these not less.
People need healthy food. A working green farm that provides healthy food,educates people on nutrition, and is a community gathering area is priceless in comparison to another building and/or parking lot. More communities should have them. It would eventually cost less in the form of health care, possible city resources like police time and has the potential to build strong commuinty ties. Not too mention providing children with a better understanding of nutrition and how to treat the earth for future prosperity. How can you put a price on that? Keep it green.
this is a cornerstone of community and an example for us all. save the community farm!
Please reconsider sparing this local farm, in the fight to keep wholesome, fresh local foods accessible to the Bed-Stuy area.
There should be more, not less, places like this! We can’t afford to let it go!
This is the type of projects we should be supporting and embracing. We could avert so many diseases through a healthy diet where we are once again in touch with the means of food production and not just buy our food in plastic containers. Also, I’m going to guess that having this garden is also helping the air quality of the neighborhood. I say it’s a win-win and we should do as much as we can to keep this farm going.
Please allow this good work to continue in this space. Brooklyn desperately needs this service, especially in this neighborhood. With all the mayor’s health initiatives, this seems to bolster and support that effort. Please let this grow and flourish!
Save the farm!
Please save this farm!
Thanks for your comments and support everyone! Be sure to click on the “Act” button and sign the petition to help save the Bed-Stuy Farm!
Save the farm save the people!
I live in California and wish we had more programs and farms like this in my nieghborhood! Kudos to all involved i will definiatly be sighning this petition