Food Security: Urban Agriculture & Markets
Overview | New Market Development | Emergency Food Provision | Extension Education & Demonstration Farming
Overview
Youth employed from the community learn how to build a greenhouse, grow produce and run a farmers' market at Added Value, an urban-farming enterprise in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
CUCE-NYC strengthens neighborhood food security by improving access to healthy, nutritious locally-grown foods, and by increasing awareness about nutrition and health practices.
Working with urban and state growers, farmers and producers, and partners and collaborators, CUCE-NYC helps to develop marketing opportunities in New York City neighborhoods.
Research and resources from Cornell University and from New York State partners also help CUCE-NYC to:
- Support sustainable urban agriculture
- Expand regional small-scale farm production and marketing
- Develop new and existing farmers' markets
- Use science and technology-based, food-production education
- Foster Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)
- Impact school food
- Train volunteers to train others in their community - read about our upcoming workshops on Urban Agriculture Techniques (pdf)
For more information contact John Ameroso, Extension Associate, (212)340-2946, jma20@cornell.edu.