A New York Rooftop Blossoms with Lessons About Food Literacy
The Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project grows more than beans and greens. It is an open-air classroom about nutrition high in the sky between Port Authority and the Lincoln Tunnel.
By Ryan Krugman
Inside Climate News
June 24, 2025
Excerpt:
NEW YORK—On the roof of Metro Baptist Church, 52 pink and blue plastic kiddie pools are filled with soil and a bounty of blossoms, legumes and leafy greens. It’s the first hot summer day in New York City, and the air is thick with haze from Canadian wildfires miles away. On this rooftop, there is life buzzing with bees and demanding watering, care and some neighborly love.
The Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project is a garden in the sky, sandwiched between the Port Authority and the Lincoln Tunnel. It is the result of Metro Baptist Church’s effort to offer food-insecure residents some fresh and healthy produce. Metro Baptist’s congregation has provided emergency meal programs for the local community since 1984, and about 15 years ago the church decided it could do even more.
Collaborating with three other organizations—the Clinton Housing Development Company, Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries and Metropolitan Community Church—the church figured it could grow much like New York City itself. It pushed upward.
Sixty volunteers hauled seven metric tons of soil up the steep staircase of the church onto the roof. A single seed was planted that day in 2011. The plastic kiddie pools were heaved up and over within weeks. The Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project was born.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/a-new-york-rooftop-blossoms-with-lessons-about-food-literacy/
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