Bronx Taqwa Community Farm co-founder Abu Talib

In the Lowe Counsel Study “Pastoral Life: The Idealization of Country Living”, one of the main key points of example was the rise of interest in Urban Gardening. Rooftops, Abandoned Basketball courts, tiny backyard land plots and the like are being re-appropriated into usable garden spaces that yield food, some upwards of 10,000 lbs per year, providing not only for the community, but for the most forward thinking of eateries in and around major metropolitan areas.

A recent New York Magazine article, photographer Andreas Laszlo Konrath has now given a face to these warriors of the soil in a portfolio framing who’s behind the most local of locavore food and the places in which they operate.

So, is urban farming becoming . . . dare we say . . . “sexy”?

Take a peek: http://nymag.com/restaurants/articles/10/09/farmers/