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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 28, 2010.
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For all donations of $10 or more, we will list you as a donor on our website and name one of our honeybees after you!
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Donors who pledge $25 will receive a bag of fresh Brooklyn Grange vegetables. Come to our farm stand to meet us and redeem your gift!*
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Donors who pledge $50 will receive a bag of fresh Brooklyn Grange vegetables and free entry into an instructional farming workshop!
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Donors who pledge $100 will receive a bag of fresh Brooklyn Grange vegetables and a limited edition Brooklyn Grange t-shirt.
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Donors who pledge $500 will receive a limited edition Brooklyn Grange t-shirt and a gift basket of a variety of our favorite farm fresh produce!
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Donors who pledge $1,000 or more will receive a limited edition Brooklyn Grange t-shirt, a gift basket with a selection of our favorite farm fresh produce AND a ticket to our end-of-season harvest fundraiser party!
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Connected as Ben Flanner (793 friends)
Brooklyn Grange is a rooftop farming business located in New York City. We raised over $20,000 in 2010 to help fund the installation of our first farm, which is a one-acre vegetable farm on the roof of a hundred year old factory building in Queens. We are opening our second farm this spring in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and will be expanding our total farm area by more than double. In two years we have grown over 25,000 lbs of fresh vegetables, hosted thousands of school children, and captured millions of gallons of rainwater at our farm.
Related to this project, we've enjoyed keeping bees on our farm not only for their honey production and pollination of our fruiting crops, but for the beekeeping community that they attract. We've had immense interest from the NYC community in purchasing our honey, learning more about bees, and getting more involved. This project will serve that interest, and the increase in honey production will be a valuable source of sales for the farm. The proceeds from the apiary will serve as a sustainable, long-term source of sales which will contribute to keeping our farms running and thriving for years to come.
