FARMING AS SOCIAL JUSTICE
TODAY, WITH the help of my team of youth farmers, we packed up 216 bunches of red Russian kale and scallions for families in need. That’s nothing compared to what a larger-scale farm can do, but I’d argue that the work we’re doing is more important.
Red Hook Farms takes up just an acre and the land. They prepare the soil. They plant the seeds. They water. They watch their seedlings grow. They weed, by hand. And eventually they harvest, package, and distribute what they’ve grown to Red Hook residents, many of whom live at or below the poverty line.
