Gardening & Agriculture: New York City Gardening and Agriculture

The Battery Urban Farm is an educational farm in New York City that employs sustainable farming and environmental stewardship.

Brooklyn Grange Farm contains the world’s largest rooftop soil farms, located across three roofs in New York City.

The Governors Island Teaching Garden gives participants the opportunity to plan, water, harvest, and cook the garden's vegetables, herbs, and fruits. It is open to the public during the Governors Island Open Season.

Harlem Grown operates local urban farms, disseminates knowledge of healthy food for Harlem residents, and provides garden-based development programs to Harlem youth.

The Randall’s Island Park Alliance’s Urban Farm is an environmentally-sustainable garden and outdoor classroom at Randall’s Island Park.

Based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a green roof organic vegetable farm located on a warehouse rooftop.

The Heritage Farm, located on Staten Island, is an urban farm providing educational activities on agriculture, gardening, wetlands, and more.

Free and open to the public, the Battery Gardens have 195,000 square feet of perennial gardens. There is the Bosque Garden, with over 100 London Plane trees, and the Gardens of Remembrance, with over 100 types of perennials.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in Brooklyn, New York City, and has 52 acres with over 14,000 different varieties of plants. This includes a Water Garden, the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and a Native Flora Garden.

A 6-acre formal garden, located at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue. Home to the Untermyer Fountain, featuring the Three Dancing Maidens by German sculptor Walter Schott.

The Heather and Alpine Gardens were part of the original Olmsted Brothers design. Each area showcases flowers and plants that are well adapted to the unique and varied terrain of Fort Tryon Park. The garden includes 46 American elms, many of which predate the park, and more than 550 varieties of plants, trees, and shrubs.

Located in Bay Ridge, this garden is one of New York City’s largest and longest lasting all-volunteer gardening initiatives. The Gardens are situated on four and a half acres of parkland along Shore Road with a view of the Narrows waterway. Among the many exhibits to be seen are the Native Plant Sanctuary, Lily Pond, Zen Garden, and the Old and Modern Rose Gardens.

Located in the Bronx, the New York Botanical Garden covers 250-acres, the largest in any city in the United States, and is a National Historic Landmark. NYBG encompasses 50 specialty gardens and collections comprising more than one million plants, the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections, and the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a Victorian-style glasshouse.

A Bronx public garden, Wave Hill covers 28 acres and is curated as a "living museum". Exhibits include the Flower Garden, the Herb and Dry Garden, the T. H. Everett Alpine House, and the Aquatic & Monocot Gardens.

The NYC Urban Agriculture website will connect you with opportunities to become a part of the agricultural community in the city, serving as a one-stop shop for resources, programs, and regulations that help grow agriculture in New York City.

GreenThumb provides programming and material support to over 550 community gardens in New York City. Workshops, which are the access point for supplies, are held every month of the year, covering gardening basics to more advanced farming and community organizing topics.

GrowNYC runs the Greenmarkets in New York, along with recycling, conservation, gardening, and education programs.

A guide from the New York City Department of Design & Construction on environmental roof construction.