Brooklyn Top Farming Borough
Today’s news that Brooklyn has more farms than any other borough should come as no surprise at all. Nor should the fact that the topic provides yet another opportunity to flog the old theme that newer, wealthier residents somehow aren’t as “real” has longer-term, poorer residents. “We aren’t here for the trendy residents,” Kendall Morrison,…
Today’s news that Brooklyn has more farms than any other borough should come as no surprise at all. Nor should the fact that the topic provides yet another opportunity to flog the old theme that newer, wealthier residents somehow aren’t as “real” has longer-term, poorer residents. “We aren’t here for the trendy residents,” Kendall Morrison, who manages The Secret Garden Farm in Bushwick. “We’re here for the neighborhood folks.” Better take out that nose ring before you try to buy your kale from Kendall!
Brooklyn Has More Farms Than Other Boros [NY Daily News]
Agree with Randolph.
What is the matter with you people?
I read the article. It’s short, positive and ought to be 100% non-controversial. Here’s the quote you’re all going off on:
“We aren’t here for the trendy residents,” said farm manager Kendall Morrison, 47, of Bushwick. “We’re here for the neighborhood folks.”
And then the article continues for a few paragraphs with quotes about how neighborhood folks are happy to have healthy choices, etc. etc. There’s not even an undertone of “class conflict”. Just one innocuous quote about how this is just being done so neighborhood people have healthy choices. It’s purely positive. And you’re turning into an opportunity to rant about your personal hatreds of gentrification, new people, hypocrisy, idealists, the man, farmer’s market and the people who shop there, and (unbelievably) kids’ lemonade stands. (If you’ve ever actually been to one, by the way, you’d see how diverse they are, both on the vendor and customer sides.)
Last week it was about how renovating an elementary school is class warfare. This post it’s about how the hypocrisy of community gardens, farmer’s markets, small scale agriculture, etc. Next post it will be about how you hate bike lanes. And then about how no one should pay more than 99 cents for coffee. You make yourself look like a bunch of bitter losers.
So have fun with all that. The rest of us will be enjoying the weather, buying and selling at farmer’s markets, drinking good coffee, buying lemonade at lemonade stands and helping make our neighborhood schools better.
I basically agree with Lechacal and Dave, but … keep in mind that plenty of people in rural areas also have “farms” that are little more than large vegetable gardens. I think we’ve been deluded by the images of factory farming into thinking that only thousands of acres tilled by machine constitutes farming. That’s simply not true.
“Brownstoner’s article about the “poor, older” people of Brooklyn vs. “new richer” kind of set me off there, I’m so sick of all the condescension/projection of the basically culture-less yupsters onto hardworking middle/working class Brooklynites.
::swoon:: spot on, i feel like hardly anyone calls these people out on this crap.”
ROB – THIS IS YOU; YOU ARE THE BIGGEST PROPONENT OF THIS KIND OF THING….do you think that all your ‘I drink 40’s’
and by calling everyone a yuppie you arent? cause it doesnt – it is pathetically transparent
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Brownstoner’s article about the “poor, older” people of Brooklyn vs. “new richer” kind of set me off there, I’m so sick of all the condescension/projection of the basically culture-less yupsters onto hardworking middle/working class Brooklynites.
::swoon:: spot on, i feel like hardly anyone calls these people out on this crap.
*rob*
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My family’s been growing vegetables in Brooklyn backyards for over 120 years. They never were so delusional that they would pretend it was farming.
THAT is the crux of the issue! it’s people who all of a sudden grow a tomato vine and proclaim themselves farmers. it’s people who whip together a chocolate bar to sell for 10 dollars and proclaim themselves chocolatiers worthy of willy wonka status, it’s hardcore moonfaces making 20 dollar tacos proclaiming it’s authentic. hello there is NOTHING authentic about any of that crap. such hardcore delusion it’s ridiculous.
*rob*
I didn’t say you were a moron, randi. But, if the shoe fits…..
You apparently don’t understand the definition of “farm.” Get back to me when you can demonstrate that you do. But, once you do you’ll actually realize that you did sound like a moron.
Yup.
“I’m so sick of all the condescension/projection of the basically culture-less yupsters onto hardworking middle/working class Brooklynites.”
Joe, you sure sound like a fun guy.
It’s all just part of the covert race / class warfare, Joe.
*Someday this war is gonna end*