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On Saturday, October 23, a group of Row New York’s middle school girls experienced farm life right in the heart of New York City. The setting was Brooklyn Grange, a rooftop farm located a few minutes from our office in Long Island City. Middle School Program Director Nate Young and Program Assistant Clara Wille accompanied the girls on this agricultural excursion.

Brooklyn Grange is a privately owned and operated commercial organic farm overlooking Northern Boulevard in Queens. The owners, who grow vegetables for local sale to businesses and individuals, started the farm improve access to healthy food and to connect urbanites more closely to food production.
Row New Yorkers dropped by to see how and why locally grown food is healthy and why a diet including locally grown produce promotes fitness and wellness. Better knowledge of these local and organic culinary practices benefits communities Row New York serves as well as the broader public.

Row New York’s girls had a chance to both hear farming lessons and get their hands dirty. The girls learned the mechanics of how crops are grown, irrigated, and cultivated and why farm animals are kept and how they are cared for. They sampled some organically grown produce and watered crops as well.

Our middle schoolers walked away from the Brooklyn Grange with a sense of how food ends up on a table and what kinds of food should end up there to promote a healthy life.

 

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