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Swale Brings Farm-Grown Food to a Bronx River Barge

Jul 22, 2016 · This urban floating farm will stay docked at Concrete Plant Park Bronx until August 14th and then continue its journey, making stops in other parts of the city. Spectrum News CONTACT

Concrete Plant Park Events - First Saturdays at the

nyc parks, nypd install 40 blue light help points in four bronx parks Concrete Plant Park Honored With Design Award Nearly 200 Paddlers Take to the Water at 11th Annual Bronx River Flotilla

Swale, A Floating Farm is Currently at Concrete Plant Park

Sep 10, 2021 · Swale will be at Concrete Plant Park until August 20th, and move to Governors Island after. The Bronx is an ideal first location for Swale, literally a platform for highlighting inequity in food

Check Out This Video About Swale, a Floating - viewing.nyc

Jul 29, 2016 · Floating food project Swale arrived in The Bronx's Concrete Plant Park this week. In this Wall Street Journal video, watch project creator Mary Mattingly talk about Swale.. Swale, a so-called floating food forest, aims to rethink the use of New York City's public lands with free food available for …

Mission and History | Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

In 2017, YMPJ leveraged its success in building, staffing, and programming Swale to partner with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to launch the Bronx River Foodway at Concrete Plant Park, thus officiating NYC's first public food forest. The Swale concept of permaculture and sustainability, coupled with YMPJ's approach of

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Charles, who always kept up with all things Bronx River related, was there to document Swale's arrival at Concrete Plant Park on July 1, 2017 and returned often to document the birdlife, wildlife, and people who represent the community of Concrete Plant Park and later also Foodway at Concrete Plant Park.

"At its heart, Swale is a call to action. It asks us to

or "foodways", on public land in New York City. Swale launched in 2016 at Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx, one of the largest food deserts in the United States. Swale began as an idea to advocate for food to be grown on some of the 30,000 acres of

Bronx CONCRETE PLANT PARK — SWALE NYC

Swale at Concrete Plant Park, Bronx, 2017. Swale helped instigate the Foodway at Conc rete Plant Park in the Bronx. Swale continues to help steward NYC's first Foodway in Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx, now in its second year. The Foodway was initiated by Swale with support from community groups. This is the first time NYC Parks has allowed foraging in a public park!

Concrete Plant Park - Bronx, New York - YouTube

Sep 01, 2021 · Site of a concrete plant from the late 1940s through 1987, the land that is now Concrete Plant Park was acquired by Parks in 2000. In close partnership with

CONCRETE PLANT PARK, Bronx River - Forgotten New York

Feb 09, 2021 · Concrete Plant Park, built along the Bronx River between 2004 and 2009 for about 10 million dollars (much of which was spent in removing petroleum-tainted soil from the site), runs on the west side of the Bronx River replacing what used to be a concrete batch mix plant between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard.

A Forest Floats on the Bronx River - The New York Times

Jul 07, 2017 · A Forest Floats on the Bronx River, With Free Produce. Marisa Prefer and Lindsey Grothkopp weeding at Swale, a barge off Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park that has been converted into a …

Concrete Plant Park Events - First Saturdays at the

nyc parks, nypd install 40 blue light help points in four bronx parks Concrete Plant Park Honored With Design Award Nearly 200 Paddlers Take to the Water at 11th Annual Bronx River Flotilla

Concrete Plant Park | SWALE | Regenerative Design Group

Aug 15, 2017 · Two re-imagined industrial relics side by side: the SWALE floating food forest docked at Concrete Plant Park. SWALE is a food forest built atop a barge that travels from pier to pier throughout New York City waterways. Once used to ferry sand to construction sites, the barge is now hauling educational programming all across the city.

Concrete Plant Park - Wikipedia

Concrete Plant Park is a public park in the Longwood section of the southern portion of the Bronx, New York City.It consists of 7.39 acres (2.99 ha) located on the west bank of the Bronx River between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard. The centerpiece and namesake of the park is a group restored structures from the concrete plant which once occupied its site.

Home Impact — SWALE NYC

Back Bronx CONCRETE PLANT PARK Governors Island YOUR PARK Back Growing or picking food on New York City's public land has been off-limits for almost a century. Swale is an experiential and co-educational edible landscape built on a hopper barge that utilizes marine common law in order to circumvent local public land laws.

Our Vision — SWALE NYC

Back Bronx CONCRETE PLANT PARK Governors Island YOUR PARK Back Since 2016, Swale has been working towards Public Food in and around New York City. Swale has catalyzed (and continues to help steward) the first 24-hour public foodway in a park in New York City.

Swale Barge — SWALE NYC

As a direct result of Swale and the support of community groups, the New York City Parks Department opened their first land-based pilot in 2017 – a public "Foodway" at Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx. At its heart, Swale is a call to action. It asks people to reconsider industrial food systems, to confirm a belief in healthy food as a human right, and to pave pathways to create public food in public space. Plants. Swale's …

"At its heart, Swale is a call to action. It asks us to

or "foodways", on public land in New York City. Swale launched in 2016 at Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx, one of the largest food deserts in the United States. Swale began as an idea to advocate for food to be grown on some of the 30,000 acres of

Swale | Governors Island

Over the past five years, Swale has hosted over 230,000 visitors at Governors Island, Concrete Plank Park in the Bronx, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the Brooklyn Army Terminal. In 2017 NYC Parks launched their first public "foodway" initiative as a result of Swale in Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx.