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Five Borough Farm 2009–2015

The first phase developed policy and metrics recommendations to support and grow urban agriculture in NYC in partnership with Added Value. To work towards implementation of our key policy and metrics goals, we partnered with the NYC Parks Department on a second phase of the project. Now in its third and final phase, we are working with Farming Concrete to scale up urban agriculture in NYC. 

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  3. Phase III
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Five Borough Farm: Phase III 2014–2015

Measuring the impact of urban agriculture in NYC

Environmental Sustainability

Project Outputs

Outputs for the third and final phase of our Five Borough Farm project include our urban agriculture Data Collection Toolkit (available as a PDF download and an interactive online platform) as well as a set of instructional videos about the eighteen collection methods in the Toolkit. 

How to Measure Food Production in Your Farm or Garden

August 2015

How to Measure the Environmental Impact of Your Farm or Garden

August 2015

How to Collect Social Data in Your Farm or Garden

August 2015

How to Collect Health Data in Your Farm or Garden

August 2015

How to Collect Economic Data in Your Farm or Garden

August 2015

Data Collection Toolkit (5MB PDF)

August 2015

Online Data Collection Toolkit

May 2014
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Video: Chris Englese

How to Measure Food Production in Your Farm or Garden

Video: Chris Englese

How to Measure the Environmental Impact of Your Farm or Garden

Video: Chris Englese

How to Collect Social Data in Your Farm or Garden

Video: Chris Englese

How to Collect Health Data in Your Farm or Garden

Video: Chris Englese

How to Collect Economic Data in Your Farm or Garden

Project Activities

In May 2014, we launched our Data Collection Toolkit at an all-day workshop where attendees were trained on the eighteen different methods available in the Toolkit. 

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Five Borough Farm toolkits ready to be distributed to workshop attendees

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Liz Barry talking about the data collection toolkit 

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Philip Silva 

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Philip Silva explaining how to enter data into the Farming Concrete website 

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Philip Silva speaking to the farmers and gardeners

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Philip Silva explaining the online system for collecting data 

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Some of the workshop materials 

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Mara Gittleman of Farming Concrete 

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Philip Silva 

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Mara Gittleman of Farming Concrete 

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Liz Barry training one of the workshop attendees on the toolkit 

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The Five Borough Farm data collection toolkits ready to be distributed 

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Inside the Five Borough Farm data collection toolkit 

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Distributing the data collection toolkits to the workshop attendees 

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Program Associate Caroline Bauer speaking to workshop attendees 

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Program Director Rosamond Fletcher showing the toolkit to a workshop attendee 

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Five Borough Farm Fellow Sheryll Durrant 

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