The “locavore” movement says we should only eat what is grown within a few miles of where we live. How about a few feet? An experiment in Brooklyn-style subsistence farming, starring smelly chickens, an angry rabbit, a freak tornado, a vegetable garden to die for, two psyched kids, and a marriage in the weeds.
Manny Howard a writer for New York Magazine and a former Mary Kay Gallagher customer in 2003, is planning on living solely on what he can grow and raise in his backyard for 30 days in his "Victorian Mansion" in Prospect Park South.
Update 9/14/07: Manny is welcome to visitors look for the big green house on Westminster
ONE MAN-MONTH OF FOOD CRAMMED INTO 800 SQUARE FEET.
A Four vegetable planters: cucumbers, cantaloupes, peppers, and heirloom tomatoes.
B The garage, a.k.a. “the Barn”: tool storage, rabbit feed, chicken feed, six rabbit hutches, a slaughter station, a refrigerator, and four egg-laying coops.
C The field, in four beds: 1 Tomatoes, beets, celery, yellow squash, purple eggplant, and a fig tree. 2 Collard greens, cucumbers, and callaloo. 3 Cabbage, Japanese eggplant, white eggplant, rhubarb, leeks, garlic, onions, fennel, rosemary, thyme, and mint. 4 Corn, broad beans, basil, bok choy, and parsley.
D The duck run: a duck coop, a duck pond, and two wayward rabbit hutches.
E The chicken run: a high-rise high-capacity chicken coop and a livestock holding pen (on the porch).
F The potato crop: a raised bed technically known as a “drill.” (Photo: Clockwise from right, courtesy of Manny Howard; Amy Eckert [2]. Illustration by Jason Lee)
A Four vegetable planters: cucumbers, cantaloupes, peppers, and heirloom tomatoes.
B The garage, a.k.a. “the Barn”: tool storage, rabbit feed, chicken feed, six rabbit hutches, a slaughter station, a refrigerator, and four egg-laying coops.
C The field, in four beds: 1 Tomatoes, beets, celery, yellow squash, purple eggplant, and a fig tree. 2 Collard greens, cucumbers, and callaloo. 3 Cabbage, Japanese eggplant, white eggplant, rhubarb, leeks, garlic, onions, fennel, rosemary, thyme, and mint. 4 Corn, broad beans, basil, bok choy, and parsley.
D The duck run: a duck coop, a duck pond, and two wayward rabbit hutches.
E The chicken run: a high-rise high-capacity chicken coop and a livestock holding pen (on the porch).
F The potato crop: a raised bed technically known as a “drill.” (Photo: Clockwise from right, courtesy of Manny Howard; Amy Eckert [2]. Illustration by Jason Lee)
My Dirt Empire [New York Magazine]
"My Empire of Dirt" [ChowHound]
The Farm on... Westminster [Ditmas Park Blog]
A Flatbush Urban Farm [Flatbush Gardener]
Finding the Culinary Logic in Going Local [Palm Beach Post]
Annals of Agriculture: New York Local- 9/3/07 [The New Yorker]
A look at the tiny Brooklyn locavore farm hit by a tornado [Greener Daily]
Eating Locally: Tested in Brooklyn [3rBlogging]
My Empire of Dirt [ColdAntlerFarm]
Information Superhighway to Nowhere [HASTAC]
Novella Carpenter [City Farmer]
NYC Farming [Gothamist]
New Yorker pushes limits of the "locavore" life [Reuters]
Urban farm lands in New York [MSN UK]
Digest - Features: Stunt farming, farmers market prices, Seattle goats [The Ethicurean]
Comments 9/24/07 [NY Mag] via OTBKB
The rubuttles:
Look! A Real Farm in a Brooklyn Back Yard [Apartment Therapy]
When A Fool Makes A Garden, It Does Not Follow That Gardening is Foolish [Garden Rant]
Another one bites the Dirt [NotEatingOutInNewYork]
Home Farm Experiment [Everyday Disasters]
Local Yokle? [Serious Eats]
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