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Neighborhood Food

NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD New York City's Hyper-local food movement "The term "Local" is becoming harder to define... but food grown around the block is hard to deny as local. By closing the gap between the point of production and the point of consumption, the lifecycle of our food is shortened; ostensibly eliminating the energy required to package, transport and store our food." TAQWA COMMUNITY FARM Home to 43 fruit trees WEST SIDE COMMUNITY GARDEN Home to a flower park, vegetable plots and a greenhouse BROOKLYN GRANGE Over 40,000 Ibs of local produce Growth in Numbers EAGLE STREET ROOFTOP FARM Solar powered urban farm hectares of Less run-off 14 K unshaded rooftop waste water BED-STUY FARM Produce goes to the Brooklyn Rescue Mission's pantry food producing Higher property 700 Community values Gardens Stronger local 256 Beehives economy BK FARMYARDS : Small plots run by students and community members Less fuel to 35+ Urban Farms transport food Back to our Roots 1900s 1984 1999 2002 %3D Mayor Giuliani's controversial decision to As a major commercial and economic hub, and the growth : of suburban communnities, New York City's small agricultural presence continues to diminish. Mayor Bloomberg settles community garden dispute, granting 200 gardens protection, and others removal for low-income GreenThumb established %3D %3D the Garden Preservation %3D %3D Program and introduced ten-year leases auction off hundreds of New York City community gardens to the highest bidder, and %3D %3D use the land for residential housing. %3D development. %3D 2010 1999 With the opening of commercial rooftop farms such as Brooklyn Grange, 1970s To save New York's The Community Garden movement begins in New York City's lower east side : with the Green Guerillas. community gardens, private organizations and individual funders purchase most of the New York becomes a global leader in urban : farming. %3D green space up for auction. %3D TH agrowculture." CO

Neighborhood Food

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This poster was created for Agrowculture, a New York based local food startup. The poster visualizes the growth of the New York local food movement, and its already present benefits for our environment.

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