A Farm in Danger: Help Save the Bed-Stuy Farm
Originally published on The Green Fork.
In one Brooklyn community, neighborhood residents are fighting to keep their farm. Bed-Stuy Farm, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year, helping feed more than 4,000 people a month through the Brooklyn Rescue Mission.
The Farm is a source of community pride that has inspired neighborhood greening, backyard food gardening and food pantry agriculture projects. It is a constant reminder to residents that better nutrition and healthy eating are within our grasp. Now, though, the project is threatened by development.
Check out the post Kerry Trueman wrote about it back in August to learn more and help save the Bed-Stuy Farm by signing this petition.
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How come the farm was not named after those who actually own the property or at least after the current users.
My suggestion is: Squatters-farm
The whole private property rights thing sure do get in the way of stuff.
While the groups goal is laudable property rights must be respected. This non-profit doesn't own the land, another non-profit does and the farmers are trespassing. I find it incredibly arrogant for the farmers to demand that the owners of the property sell some other property they own or give them another tract of land just because they want it. And the city should force this to happen to let farmers keep their land, the problem again is that this is not their land.
When the poor make something desirable, there's always someone powerful and rich ready to take it away from them. Just ask native Americans.
indians didn't make anything that we took away. They were on land we wanted and we fought a war over it, they lost.
You can't say enough good things about this group of people. Fresh food for those in real need is about as good as it gets. My compliments, regards, and appreciation to you all.
Let us grow veggies in your front yard.
But then again, we the people, do not need your permission to do so, we just will without asking.
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