In a session titled "Creating Oases in All Our New Yorks," Five Borough Farm II green infrastructure fellow Martin Barry will present the recommendations for design solutions to transform community gardens into inclusive spaces. 

Panelists: 

• New York City Community Gardening Coalition, on the history of community gardening in NYC (Haja and Cindy Worley, gardeners)
  
• NYC Parks Department GreenThumb, on NYC's unique program for making municipal land available for community use (Nancy Kohn, Director)
• Design Trust for Public Space, on design solutions for transforming community gardens into inclusive spaces 
• Assemblymember Joseph Lentol, on potential incentives for private land-owners to make their land available to neighbors 
• Prospect Farm, on running a farm on a privately-owned vacant lot in Brooklyn (Meera Bhat, farmer)
  

Read more about the Vacant Acres symposium.