URBAN FARMING NYC

This video was originally shot in August 2009. A student from The POINT's ACTION program brought copies with him when he visited Michelle Obama's organic garden at the White House later that month. A version of this video then debuted at the South Bronx Food & Film Expo on December 5th, 2009 at The POINT and was also screened during the opening of the first ever Bronx Food Summit hosted by Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. on May 1st, 2010. A month later it was a part of the Sustainable Planet Film Series in Manhattan and has been shown at numerous events and classrooms across NYC and nationally. It has since given birth to a new, wholly inclusive, Bronx Borough-wide educational/vocational initiative: Green Bronx Machine.

Green Bronx Machine and Bronx Educator/Advocate Stephen Joseph Ritz will be featured in a WABC TV Prime Time Special: "Above and Beyond," airing June 18, 2011 @ 7 PM on ABC Channel 7. Green Bronx Machine will be celebrating with an official GALA LAUNCH PARTY on June 22, 6-9 PM at Cafe Iguana, W. 54th Street, NYC. Learn more by emailing info@greenbronxmachine.com. Like them on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/green.BX.machine.
Also, check out their debut welcome video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cww_dUh5FUI.

Please post a comment below and let us know what you think! For more info contact THE POINT (http://www.thepoint.org) or the Green Bronx Machine (http://www.greenbronxmachine.com).

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• The Point CDC
• Hunts Point
• ACTION
• South Bronx
• food justice
• urban farming
• new york city
• nyc
• Green Bronx Machine
• urban agriculture
• friends of brook park
• south bronx food and film expo
• Steve Ritz

[moviemad25]

hi can you whatch little green bag short movie This short movie is my sons first project as a writer/director.He achived this despite his disabilities and learning difficuilties with the help of actor/director David Hayman and his charity Spirit Aid.This is only the first part of a planned quadrology,and we are currently trying to raise funds to film the other three parts which will create a full length feature and tell me what you think

[moatwog]

THIS IS THE REVOLUTION!!!!!

[serotone9]

This + Solar cities = a NEW CLEAN WORLD! A vision for the future, starting NOW - let's do it!

[Skorcz]

1:40 were those blunt wraps?

[DoItYourselfGuy]

Any worthwhile change begins with....YOU!

[1EMINEMLUVER]

Well I'm happy with this..Thats was upp. II'm not from The Bronx.But I'm In Chi-Town .&& It looks pretty muchh the same Real Talkk >:)

[dpina01]

dame the depression is finally here this was done during the last depression as a means of survival read your history

[knowledgehammer]

This is an Incredibly inspiring vision of the future for the Urban Areas of the World. If this can be done under some of the harshest industrial, populated and polluted circumstances, then it can indeed be done anywhere and should be endorsed publicly and by THE STATE with grants! If there was one organization I would contribute to or even pay a tax for, its this one! URBAN FARMING is the answer to THE RECESSION! RON PAUL for 2010!!!

[cjoIIProductionz]

@juicyjuicejosh Can you tell me how.