Bushwick City Farm Isn't Dead Yet
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Bushwick City Farm Isn't Dead Yet

A renegade community garden is holding onto hope that the City will step in to save their DIY green space.

The volunteers who tend Bushwick City Farm, a renegade community green space at the corner of Lewis Avenue and Stockton Street, should have seeded their garden beds by now. Instead, they're locked out of the plot of land that some of them have been minding for a decade and a half, thanks to a clash between the landlord who owns the previously abandoned lot and the City's Department of Buildings. 

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