Brooklyn Rescue Mission

One of the most logical ways to eliminate food deserts – those places that don’t have adequate access to fresh fruits and vegetables – is through urban agriculture. In Brooklyn, residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant are fighting to keep their urban farm – which produces 7,000 lbs of fresh produce per year – alive in the face of development. Reverend DeVanie Jackson and her husband, Reverend Robert Jackson converted a garbage covered lot into a farm to support their work feeding 4,000 New Yorkers every month at the Brooklyn Rescue Mission. Now the city wants to take the land back to build affordable housing. You can sign the petition to save this neighborhood farm from destruction, and then take a look at this video directed by Dulce Fernandes over at the Green Fork blog.