Rupal Sanghvi’s scientific contributions

Five Borough Farm (Phase I) was a project of the Design Trust for Public Space, in partnership with Added Value, which operates the 3-acre Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn. Five Borough Farm (Phase I, which concluded in 2012) had three main goals: • Document New York City’s existing urban agricultural activity through photographs, maps, infographics, and detailed interviews with key stakeholders, and describe the opportunities and challenges facing the city’s urban agriculture community. • Establish a shared framework and tools to allow users to track urban agricultural activities citywide, and evaluate their social, health, economic, and ecological benefits. • Develop policy recommendations that will help make urban agriculture a more permanent part of the city’s landscape and governance. This publication has three main chapters – Urban Agriculture in NYC, Metrics, and Policy – and outlines steps to implement these recommendations.