Jake Price

NYRP Rough Visuals

An asylee from Africa (he asked not to be identified, but gave permission for the photo) waters a crop in The New Roots Community Farm, 19365 square feet which offers critical services to refugees, asylees, and immigrant communities in addition to local South Bronx residents. The garden grows turmeric, moringa, and hibiscus among other culturally relevant crops.
Surrounded by a dense urban expanse off of the Grand Concourse, The New Roots Community Farm offers critical services to refugees, asylees, and immigrant communities in addition to local South Bronx residents. The garden grows turmeric, moringa, and hibiscus among other culturally relevant crops which are distributed to the community on the weekends.
A volunteer walks down one of the paths in The New Roots Community Farm in the Bronx, located just off the Grand Concourse. This area is prone to flooding, and outside the garden, roads and sidewalks are often underwater for hours. Within the garden, the pathways slope to direct water downhill and divide it, allowing most water to be absorbed. As a result, the garden is usually dry within hours after a storm.

Surrounded by a dense urban expanse off of the Grand Concourse, The New Roots Community Farm offers critical services to refugees, asylees, and immigrant communities in addition to local South Bronx residents. The garden grows turmeric, moringa, and hibiscus among other culturally relevant crops.
Figs collected by (name and location TK) in The New Roots Community Farm which offers critical services to refugees, asylees, and immigrant communities in addition to local South Bronx residents. The garden grows turmeric, moringa, and hibiscus among other culturally relevant crops.
Mushrooms (type tk) collected in The New Roots Community Garden. Surrounded by a dense urban expanse off of the Grand Concourse, The New Roots Community Farm offers critical services to refugees, asylees, and immigrant communities in addition to local South Bronx residents. The garden grows turmeric, moringa, and hibiscus among other culturally relevant crops.
Name TK from TK collects TK fruits in the garden. Surrounded by a dense urban expanse off of the Grand Concourse, The New Roots Community Farm offers critical services to refugees, asylees, and immigrant communities in addition to local South Bronx residents. The garden grows turmeric, moringa, and hibiscus among other culturally relevant crops.
Surrounded by a dense urban expanse off of the Grand Concourse, The New Roots Community Farm offers critical services to refugees, asylees, and immigrant communities in addition to local South Bronx residents. The garden grows turmeric, moringa, and hibiscus among other culturally relevant crops.
About a quarter of a mile from the Glover Street Community Garden in the Bronx, there is an empty lot just off the Castle Hill Avenue station. Given the dense population of the neighborhood and the need for green space and fresh fruits and vegetables, this lot could be put to good use if transformed into a community garden or similar green space.

The New York Restoration Project (NYRP) began transforming empty lots into community gardens in 1995 when Bette Midler founded the organization by cleaning up trash in neglected parks. Early on, NYRP recognized the importance of preserving green spaces in underserved communities. Currently, the New York Restoration Project (NYRP) continues to transform and maintain over 50 community gardens and parks across all five boroughs, focusing on underserved neighborhoods.
A volunteer waters in the Glover Street Community Garden, Bronx, 1,209 sq ft.. Founded in 1982 as a beautification project by local residents, Glover Street Community Garden was fully renovated in the fall of 2018. The reconstruction includes new fencing and pathways, a water supply and irrigation system, a shade structure with picnic tables, movable benches and tables, a seating area, a garden tool shed, 13 raised garden beds, compost bins, a barbecue, and numerous landscape plantings.
A volunteer holds a dried marigold in the Glover Street Community Garden, 1,209 sq ft. The garden is particularly known for giving away free meals to students throughout the summer and hosting an annual Día de los Muertos celebration (which the garden grows a bounty of marigolds for) in the fall.
A volunteer in the Glover Street Community Garden, Bronx. Founded in 1982 as a beautification project by local residents, Glover Street Community Garden was fully renovated in the fall of 2018. The reconstruction includes new fencing and pathways, a water supply and irrigation system, a shade structure with picnic tables, movable benches and tables, a seating area, a garden tool shed, 13 raised garden beds, compost bins, a barbecue, and numerous landscape plantings.
Volunteers sort fruits and vegetables are offered to the community in the entrance of the Glover Street Community Garden. Founded in 1982 as a beautification project by local residents, Glover Street Community Garden was fully renovated in the fall of 2018. The reconstruction includes new fencing and pathways, a water supply and irrigation system, a shade structure with picnic tables, movable benches and tables, a seating area, a garden tool shed, 13 raised garden beds, compost bins, a barbecue, and numerous landscape plantings.
Children and their parents lined up around the block before the new school year began to receive backpacks, school supplies and books.
Apart from offering residents in the Bronx fresh fruit and vegetables the Glover Street Community Garden also hosts a day offering children free backpacks, school supplies and books. On this Sunday the line for these items stretched a city block and children and their parents waited for hours to receive these items. Founded in 1982 as a beautification project by local residents, Glover Street Community Garden, 1,209 sq ft., was fully renovated in the fall of 2018. The reconstruction includes new fencing and pathways, a water supply and irrigation system, a shade structure with picnic tables, movable benches and tables, a seating area, a garden tool shed, 13 raised garden beds, compost bins, a barbecue, and numerous landscape plantings.
Apart from providing fresh fruits and vegetables to Bronx residents, the Glover Street Community Garden also hosts a day where children receive free backpacks, school supplies, and books. On this Sunday, the line for these items stretched a city block, with children and their parents waiting for hours to receive them. Founded in 1982 as a beautification project by local residents, Glover Street Community Garden, 1,209 sq ft., was fully renovated in the fall of 2018. The reconstruction includes new fencing and pathways, a water supply and irrigation system, a shade structure with picnic tables, movable benches and tables, a seating area, a garden tool shed, 13 raised garden beds, compost bins, a barbecue, and numerous landscape plantings.
Apart from providing fresh fruits and vegetables to Bronx residents, the Glover Street Community Garden also hosts a day where children receive free backpacks, school supplies, and books. On this Sunday, the line for these items stretched a city block, with children and their parents waiting for hours to receive them.

Shiitake Workshop

A Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden. NYRP Urban Ag member Corey Blant and Agroforestry & Mushroom Specialist at Cornell Connor Youngerman led the event.

Mushroom Specialist of Cornell University Connor Youngerman leads a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
A Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
Shiitake mushrooms on inoculation logs in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden where a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held.
Shiitake mushrooms on inoculation logs in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden where a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held.
Mushroom Specialist Connor Youngerman leads a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
A participant who attended a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program looked at mushroom spawn which would later be added to an inoculation log. The workshop was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
Mushroom Specialist of Cornell University Connor Youngerman leads a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
Mushroom Specialist of Cornell University Connor Youngerman leads a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden. Here he demonstrates how inoculation logs are drilled into then filled with mushroom spawn and then capped with wax to initiate the growing process.
An inoculation log submerged in water. After the logs are taken over by the fungus which gestate from 6-12 months logs are submerged for 12-24 hours to jumpstart the shititake flowering. This was a part of a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden. NYRP Urban Ag member Corey Blant and Agroforestry & Mushroom Specialist at Cornell Connor Youngerman.
Shiitake participants shiitake mushrooms look on at inoculation logs in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden where a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held.
After harvesting shiitake mushrooms Thursday Silverman holds their bounty at a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
After harvesting shiitake mushrooms participants graded their mushrooms into 3 categories of desirability at a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
After harvesting shiitake mushrooms participants graded their mushrooms into 3 categories of desirability at a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.
After harvesting shiitake mushrooms participants hold their bounty at a Shiitake mushroom harvest workshop in partnership with Cornell’s Small Farms Program was held in NYRP’s Riley-Levin Demonstration Garden.

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