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Article from WNYC reporting on the agreement between Mayor Bloomberg and State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, protecting gardens from further private development.

Poster for the U.S. Department of Agriculture promoting victory gardens, showing carrots, lettuce, corn, tomatoes, and potatoes growing.

Photograph of sign reading "Childrens School Farm - Exhbited by The International Children's School Farm League of New York City."

Park Association President Whitney North Seymour Jr., circa 1965, explaining the concept of using vacant lots to create 'vest-pocket parks.'

Children at play in a vest pocket park located at 182 Mulberry Street, July 13, 1968

Photos from fellow activist Donald Loggins show New York City's first community garden being planted in 1973, on the corner of Bowery and Houston

Volunteers carry a Ceremonial Map that marks the location of each garden in a procession to acknowledge the presense of the gardens, not as vacant lots, but as living spaces cultimated by the community with active cultural programming.

Green Guerillas Fact Sheet: Two Seed Grenade Recipes or How to Hide Illegal Dumping Space

Destruction of the Garden of Eden in the Lower East Side, 1985

Children working in the Isham Park school garden, New York City, August 16, 1915.