850 Third Ave., Brooklyn open to the public Sundays through the end of October, 11 a.m. What’s in season? The end-of-summer bounty at the market includes tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, kale, eggplant and custom-made hot sauce. The new farm is expecting to host more events in the spring, but in the meantime, you can check out its other locations in Long Island City and at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which host rooftop yoga, dinner parties, workshops and more. At the weekly open houses on Sundays, you can take a guided tour of the space ($18) or visit for free and buy produce from the rooftop market. The new site uses 4 million pounds of soil in total, Brooklyn Grange’s three farms yield 80,000 pounds of produce a year to sell to local restaurants and at farmers markets. “Just having the backdrop of the city with that kind of contrast between agriculture and then the most defined urban background you could possibly see, I thought it was really stunning,” he tells The Post. His girlfriend, Niki Roger, surprised him with a date to the farm on a recent sunny Sunday. ![]() The effect is so transformative it’s easy to forget you’re in NYC, until you look up and see crops perfectly framing the Statue of Liberty in the distance.īring your date: It’s a perfect mix of the urban and rural, especially John Epifanio, 44, who grew up in suburban Connecticut and says he occasionally hits a “tipping point” where he needs to escape the claustrophobic city. The site is an oasis on top of a building that contains a Bed Bath & Beyond and other stores, with 140,000 square feet of tomatoes, peppers, kale and more, marked with colorful bursts of sunflowers and other flowers. Its newest outpost, which opened in Sunset Park last month, is now the largest rooftop farm in the city. State Street and Battery Place, open every day check Web site for volunteer opportunities Brooklyn Grange Sunset Parkīrooklyn Grange has been leading the way in turning New York rooftops into lush farmlands over the past decade. The veggies grown here are served to kids, and donated to local charities. The site is also a teaching garden for city students a few get their own patch of land to tend in the park. “There’s a sense of tranquility, of being connected to the earth, to the world.” She’s retired and finds peace at the space, even when she’s just pulling weeds out of one of the vegetable beds as noisy tour buses roar by the park. Mary Beth Rogan started volunteering at the farm last year after moving from, appropriately, Garden City, LI, to Tribeca and realizing she missed her home garden. The farm opened in 2011 and is tended weekly by a team of volunteers, but its open gates welcome in lots of tourists on their way to catch the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. The hidden little garden hosts about 40 rows of plant beds, sprouting tomatoes, peas, kale, radishes, carrots, herbs, sweet peppers and more. The farmers on this patch of parkland nestled in the southern tip of Manhattan have to deal with something even their most seasoned rural counterparts don’t encounter: shadows from skyscrapers. ![]() ![]() Here’s how New Yorkers can get dirty - in a good way - and get some hyper local produce without leaving the five boroughs. A new wave of urban farms are inviting city dwellers to get back to their roots, literally, this fall, and teach all of us why vibrant green space is so necessary in the growing city. You just have to look around a little - or sometimes, look up - to find it. Today, farming in the Big Apple is making a big comeback. Orchard Street was once an actual orchard and in the 17th century, the Bowery was called Bouwerij, the Dutch word for farm. But the city’s farm history dates to its founding. You might be thinking that farms and New York City go together like good pizza and rural Iowa. It’s the time of year that makes us start thinking of farm life, getting the flannel out of the closet and hitting a hayride. September has hit New York, and that means the air is getting cooler, the subways are getting slightly less sweaty and we can all resume arguing whether pumpkin-flavored things are good.
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