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A Staten Island Urban Farmer- NY Times Mar 10, 2017

A Staten Island Urban Farmer- NY Times Mar 10, 2017

Formerly farmers at Happy Acres Farm in Sherman as Empress Greens.  Very happy to read that they are doing well in Staten Island:

 

Zaro Bates operates and lives on a 5,000-square-foot farm on Staten Island, which may make her the city’s only commercial farmer-in-residence. But instead of a shingled farmhouse surrounded by acres of fields, Ms. Bates lives in a second-floor studio in a midrise apartment complex built on the site of a former naval base overlooking New York Bay.  Read more here.