Editor’s note: For more info and a slideshow of photos from the urban farms tour, click here.
On Saturday, May 14, in conjunction with Bronx Week, the borough’s tourism council held its first-ever Urban Farm Tour.
The event helped commemorate the anniversary of the Bronx’s first Bronx Food Summit, which was held last May. The farm tour was sponsored by the Bronx Tourism Council, The Bronx Food and Sustainability Coalition and the New York Botanical Garden.
The tour began in midtown Manhattan where participants boarded a trolley and traveled to three different farms in the Bronx. It attracted residents from the Bronx, as well as Manhattan and even included tourists from Korea.
Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. visited the second stop on the tour, the Garden of Happiness, at 182nd Street and Prospect Avenue, which he described as “a little oasis of tranquility.”
He told participants that this is one of the many Bronx Week events dedicated to health and nutrition.
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