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Hippie urban farmers to get evicted from NYC plot before they can harvest crops — as new luxury development breaking ground

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Oko Farms in Williamsburg is set to be evicted from its location in November. okofarms/Instagram

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By Katherine Donlevy
NY Post
Oct. 20, 2024

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About 600 urban farmers say they are being evicted from their Williamsburg plot so suddenly that they won’t even be able to harvest their last batch of crops.

The volunteer gardeners toiling for Oko Farms — which provides fresh produce to low-income Brooklynites — was warned by Two Trees Management in August that they would need to pack up the hippie operation by November.

The sustainable farmers had been borrowing the real-estate company’s vacant plot along the East River between Metropolitan Avenue and North Third Street since May 2021 as the developer awaited approval to break ground on the final piece of its luxury megadevelopment.

As part of the deal, Oko Farms was granted free rent, but Two Trees retained the right to kick it out with just three months’ notice.

“While we understood that this site would not be permanent, the abruptness of the termination of our lease is unfortunate,” Oko leadership wrote in an online statement.

“However, this is neither surprising nor unusual as far as urban farming is concerned. Land access is one of the, if not the biggest roadblock for urban farms and it has been a constant challenge for us since our inception.”

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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/hippie-urban-farmers-to-get-evicted-from-nyc-plot-before-they-can-harvest-crops-as-new-luxury-development-breaking-ground/


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