It doesn’t get any better working on urban farms in NYC! This week we got a chance to visit Pink Houses Community farm in Brooklyn; a community farm with quite a history and founded mainly to produce fresh food for distribution to Pink Houses residents. The Pink Houses Community Farm is equally interesting just like the other farms we visited. The farm uses raised beds to grow crops and also uses a greenhouse to raise young tender seedlings. Some of the crops grown include brassicas(Kales and Spinach), tomatoes, beetroots, and green onions.
Just like we did in the previous farms, we set up the traps, scouted the crops, and evaluated and mapped out the beneficial flowery habitat installed this spring.
It was very interesting that after 48 hours when we came back to collect the traps, we could connect some of the beneficial insects caught to the beneficial flowery habitat, for instance, we caught some ground beetles; one of the beneficial insect species, in the beneficial flowery habitat, which showed the potential of the beneficial habitat in attracting beneficial insects.
