I grew up in Brooklyn. I spent many hours on the subway, going to Coney Island, or to the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights. I went to school on Clinton Hill, skated in Prospect park, and cleaned up Fort Greene park on the first Earth Day. (There were empty drug vials in the park then, now there's a farmers' market). But in all that time, I never saw anything like this, ever. It shows how much the urban farm and garden movement has come, and it rocks. The farm, pictured above, is located on asphalt covered in 2 feet of compost. It's from an article by Kelle Carter, farm field coordinator for Seeds of Change, the organic seed and food company. I came across it looking for seeds. Worth a read.

Sam, not only does the place exist, but one of the garden coordinators there is our own Jenny Guillaume, until recently the garden coordinator at the Washington Youth Garden, National Arboretum. It is indeed an incredibly cool project. Would that we had something of that magnitude here in the District of Columbia.
Posted by: Ed Bruske | December 08, 2007 at 10:19 PM