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GrowNYC hosted a special guest to NYC Farmers’ markets in hopes to bring awareness about the need and productivity farmer’s markets provide to communities.
A video on YouTube shows Krysta Harden, the USDA Deputy Secretary visiting GrowNYC’s farmers markets, walking from booth to booth, tasting and experiencing what New Yorkers are doing to provide healthy foods to their neighborhoods.
GrowNYC has created or rejuvenated over 70 community gardens. They work with schools, public housing associations, and neighborhoods in an ongoing effort to revitalize vacant land into urban agriculture destinations. Many of these gardens are in urban places where garden and green spaces are rare and large populations of Latinos live. An article from 2011 showed New York City being the number one state with the largest Latino population.
With some of the gardens in many cities across NYC including, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, GrowNYC has provided areas of open green space to many urban communities that would not have easy access to fresh produce. They also have Grow to Learn: The Citywide School Gardens Initiative, a valuable resource for any public school looking to build, sustain, and program a school garden.
GrowNYC is a hands-on non-profit that gives New Yorkers tools for environmental programs that transform communities block by block and empower all people in NYC to secure a clean and healthy environment for future generations.
To learn more about GrowNYC click here or read their 2014 report.
By The Numbers
1
Supermarket
for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood
