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]
hey grandpa dave, how about actually engaging me for once as opposed to just saying i am a moron and leaving it at that?
semantics
The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text
ex> “such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff”
Good to be here, Dave.
I’ve been around. I have a blog: wanderingbrooklyn.wordpress.com.
I’ve been checking in here and there but haven’t felt a need to comment in a while.
I dig Montrose’s articles and so I felt a need to big her up while doing a little self-promotion.
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.
randi, if you’re going to argue semantics, best to learn what it means first.
Joe WTF are you talking about/arguing with.
Joe, where you been?? We’ve missed you.
so your argument is purely semantics? incorrect use of the word farming?
farming
The activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock.
crops
A cultivated plant that is grown as food, esp. a grain, fruit, or vegetable
so they don’t have the livestock, but the rest sounds about right….and besides, who effing cares what they call it? if anyone is missing the point it is you guys engaging in a pointless criticism of word choice.
Thanks DIBS – wait is randolph the furry little woodland creature everyone calls randi?
Oh, and we were NEVER poor.
That’s more yuppie mythology about the poor, disadvantaged Brooklyn people that somehow miraculously gave the world countless scholars, authors, inventors, actors, comedians, millionaires, scientists, economists, etc. but according to their feeble little yupster minds was somehow this culturally devoid landscape until a bunch of Molly Ringwald looking Carrie Bradshaw wannabe’s decided to sell the turnip farm and drive their U-haul to Brooklyn.
I call BULLSHIT!
There. I’m done.
wanderingbrooklyn.wordpress.com
lechacal, randolph can never really grasp the argument it would seem. Best not to engage it.