AGENCY TESTIMONY
Types of urban agriculture models in New York City
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New York City hosts a diverse range of urban agricultural models, from traditional soil-based community gardens to high-tech controlled environment systems.
- Models include soil-based community gardens, urban farms, rooftop gardens, and non-soil systems like aquaponics and hydroponics.
- These spaces serve multiple purposes: education, climate resiliency, food production, and community wellness.
- Additional infrastructure such as greenhouses and multipurpose buildings support these urban agriculture initiatives.
Qiana Mickie
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New York City is now home to a breadth of urban agricultural models, such as soil based community gardens, urban farms, rooftop gardens, and also non soil controlled, environment models such as aquaponics and hydroponics.
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These models, are built to teach, through growing.
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They're also built to foster climate resiliency and many, focus on scaling healthy food production.
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I would be remiss to not mention that these are also spaces of healing, respite, and wellness in their communities.
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All of these models and sites are critical elements of our city's landscape.
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Green infrastructure that extends the season of growing, such as greenhouses, multipurpose buildings that also can provide educational centers, hubs of learning, hubs of process are also a part of urban agriculture in New York City.
