Food Security: Urban Agriculture & Markets
Overview | New Market Development | Emergency Food Provision | Extension Education & Demonstration Farming
Emergency Food Provision
Bissel Gardens, a member of Just Food, occupies five blocks in Wakefield, in the Bronx. Community volunteers organize activities, sell produce at neighborhood farm stands, and donate more than 1500 lbs annually to emergency-food providers. Above: a Bissel Gardens farm stand
CUCE-NYC promotes food production through faith-based organizations in and outside of New York City. Partnering with missionary residents and community volunteers, Maryknoll Missionaries in Ossining, New York, distributed approximately 12,800 lbs of fresh produce valued at $16,000 in emergency-food relief through emergency-food providers (EFPs) in the Ossining area and in the Bronx.
Partnering with Just Food
CUCE-NYC partners with Just Food to help grow food for emergency-food providers (EFPs), to foster market and food-growing opportunities through small neighborhood farm stands, and to continue development of train-the-trainer programs that strengthen community coalitions involved in urban agriculture and Community Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs).