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All Aboard the Food Forest

Stanford Social Innovation Review | Fall 2016

Rendering of barge on the water filled with fruit trees and vegetable crops.
Rendering of SwaleNY concept: a floating barge filled with fruit trees and vegetable crops that travels from port to port for public education and consumption. Image credit: Swale

Photo courtesy of Swale

In New York City, where land is valuable and developers can rake in big profits, community gardens are being uprooted to make way for more profitable ventures. As a result, some families are losing a key source of fresh food. But what if members of the public had access to a site where they could pick freshly grown fruits and vegetables for free? And what if the space it occupied was not at risk for development? That site now exists.

This story appeared in the print edition of Stanford Social Innovation Review magazine as well as online. Continue reading the story here.