Five Borough Farm will partner New York City's most successful urban farm - Brooklyn-based Added Value - with New York's largest landowner - the City itself - to create the nation's first citywide plan for urban agriculture.
Connecting grassroots efforts to municipal policy, Five Borough Farm will undertake four key initiatives designed to support the expansion of urban agriculture citywide:
1. Survey existing urban agricultural activity and best policy precedents
2. Develop metrics to measure its benefits (social, public health, economic, youth empowerment, ecological)
3. Inventory City-owned land available for urban agriculture
4. Provide technical assistance and advocacy tools to a wide range of community groups and nonprofits
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Working with leading experts in sustainable development, urban planning, food policy, and program evaluation, Five Borough Farm will create a policy framework that supports urban agriculture, produce a series of advocacy tools, and culminate in a pilot project that demonstrates the vitality of urban agriculture as public space.
The anticipated timeframe for the project is 16 months, beginning April 2010. For the first phase, the Design Trust has select two fellows - Nevin Cohen, an urban food policy expert, will be the Policy Fellow; and Rupal Sanghvi, a public health evaluation expert, will be the Metrics Fellow.
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