We need you to help us make real change through education and advocacy for a more equitable future!

We continue to strengthen stewardship of public waterways and land while shifting policies to increase access to healthy, fresh food for more New Yorkers.  

Growing or picking food in New York City's public land has been off-limits for almost a century for fear that a glut of foragers may destroy an ecosystem. Swale is an experiential and co-educational edible landscape built on a barge that utilizes marine common law in order to circumvent local public land laws. In this way, Swale is able to dock adjacent to public land and allow people to pick edible and medicinal perennial plants grown onboard for free. While working to shift policies that will increase the presence of edible perennial landscapes, Swale has been strengthening stewardship of public waterways and land. At Swale, we believe that when treated as a commons, food production can be less polluting, and food access can be more just.

Swale continues to help steward NYC's first Foodway in Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx, now in its fifth year. The Foodway was initiated by Swale and support from community groups. This is the first time NYC Parks has allowed foraging in a public park!

Help us with these initiatives and with designing and building a permanent floating food forest to launch in the summer of 2024.