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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

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

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

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

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

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

Young girls watering crops at DeWitt Clinton Park in Manhattan in September of 1902.

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.

Protestors gather in 1999 for a 24-hour encampment to protect it from demoliton. Protestors built barricades and campred out in the garden. They slept in the Coqui, a large, frog-shaped tree house and a symbol of Puerto Rico. The garden was…

Weekly Column by Mayor Giuliani in September 2001, arguing for the destruction of community gardens to make room for housing development projects.