Community Gardens Grow Green Space in New York City
April 28, 2011
A visitor looks around the Green Acres Community Garden in Brooklyn, New York
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, on our program we play new music from Alison Krauss and Union Station…
answer a question about the Patowmack Canal near Washington…
but first we visit some New York City gardeners and their green spaces…
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Community Gardens
FAITH LAPIDUS: You have probably heard the term “concrete jungle.” People use it to describe big cities that often have more hard surfaces than green space. Some people call New York City a concrete jungle. But, New York is also home to hundreds of community gardens filled with all kinds of crops. Bob Doughty has our story.
BOB DOUGHTY: It is almost nine in the morning on a workday. And Noah Kauffman is working hard, but not at his paying job. He is digging in the soil at the 113th Street Play Garden in Manhattan. He is the volunteer president of the community garden.
Noah Kaufman helps manage the 111th Street Community Play Garden.
NOAH KAUFFMAN: “New York City is, if anything, the built environment. We have plenty of concrete. We have plenty of bricks. We have plenty of steel. We have little, little places like this vest pocket park, which are a small oasis, a piece of green. For our neighbors here on 113th Street, this is our front yard and we share it.”
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