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Cultivating Urban Agriculture in New York City is the first report published by the Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture

The report outlines priorities, initiatives, and highlights early achievements of the Office to advance urban agriculture and equity in the city.

Download the Executive Summary
Download the full report

Press & News

Want to learn more about the latest work and activities of the Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture?

• Our Time Press: Qiana Mickie: Growing Community Farms and Gardens in Brooklyn
• WXXI Radio: Discussing urban agriculture and what Rochester can learn from effforts in New York City 
• Clean+Healthy: Advocates Call on Legislators to Advance Key Bills as Part of Earth Day Advocacy Day
• Canicaradio: NYC Looks for Latino Agricultures to Train Them 
• Vertical Farm Daily: Renovated hydroponic classroom opens in Bushwick 
• John Deere TheFurrow: Bright Farmers, Big City: Agriculture in the city that doesn't sleep
• News12Bronx: Federal State and local leaders focused on bringing healthy food to Bronx tables 
• USDA RELEASE: USDA Appoints New Members to the Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production 
• NYC's public schools expand farm to school programming, improving nutrition access 
• Adams Administration Secures Funds To Revamp NYC School Farm to School Programs
• PRESS RELEASE: Adams Administration Secures Funding to Reimagine Farm to School Programming in New York City Schools  
• Update Interview With Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of NYC Mayor’s Office of Urban Agriculture
• Exclusive interview with Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture
• How an abandoned Brooklyn lot will become a future hub for student learning and urban agriculture
• Let's Build Gardens for Learning
• Re-envisioning New York City's Green Spaces With Qiana Mickie
• Community gardens are vital to NYC. Here's how the Mayor's office is supporting them
• Rockefeller community symposium brings together scientists and local gardeners
• NRCS Undersecretary Robert Bonnie and Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Director Brian Guse's recent NYC visit with MOUA Director Mickie and FSA NYC Board was recently highlighted in the NRCS newsletter.
• NYC Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture - The Heartbeat of the City: A Tale of Urban Agriculture in NYC
• Interview with Director of NYC Office of Urban Agriculture
• Unmasking the Skyrocketing Cost of Food in Brooklyn, Part 2
• Mayor Adams And Chancellor Banks Announce $8.4m State Grant To Purchase School Food From Local Farme
• NYC to use state funds to buy school food from local farmers - silive.com
• A look at the city's new office of urban agriculture
• Urban farming industry growing in New York City
• The City's New Urban Agriculture Director is Sowing Seeds of Change for BK's Gardens 
• Interview with Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture

To contact the Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture for all press and other external communication requests, please contact Amy Sohn, asohn@cityhall.nyc.gov.