The Kensington Youthmarket: The latest GrowNYC pop-up greenmarket

In efforts to bring the greenmarket to the outer boroughs while teaching teens about the local produce and sustainability, GrowNYC launches The Kensington Youthmarket. The youthmarket, located on Fort Hamilton Parkway and E. Fifth St., is operating now until Oct 29th, 2011. This is an opportunity to not only give back, but also, build a sense community.

Read more of this New York Daily news report

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/18/kensingtonyouthmarket/

Trending Now: Urban Gardens with a twist…

Restaurant-owned Gardens, Rooftop Gardens and Celebrity Guest Garden Experiences
Gotham Greens, a climate-controlled rooftop garden greenhouse located in Greenpoint Brooklyn, sees increase demand and now supplies produce to food retailers such as Whole Foods and Eataly
Gramercy Tavern’s chef, Michael Anthony teams up with Farm Share, a Westchester, NY-based company that brings small family farms to the marketplace, to provide shares of crops personally picked out by him. The program lasts until August.
Rather than sourcing fresh produce from other urban rooftop farms, Owners of Smorgas Chef created their own farm called Blenheim Hill

https://paigepapers.com/2011/07/18/urbangardenstrending/