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City highland restaurants bronx new york11/22/2023 ![]() Finding jobs and housing for free men and immigrants became a serious problem. By the middle of the 19th century, abolition of slavery was gaining steam in our region as the Industrial Revolution was losing steam. 3 From there, slaves were distributed across the state, used in farming on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley. The Dutch West India Company imported eleven African slaves to New Amsterdam in 1626 and by 1655, slave auctions were being held in New Amsterdam. Europeans brought imperialistic ideals for industry, and African slaves to implement them. These early settlers had different ideas about life in the New World. Apples came to the Americas with the first European settlers in the 1600s, along with other crops. These days, the Hudson Valley is better known for apple orchards. They farmed corn, beans, and squash, and harvested wild fruits, nuts, and berries native to the region. The Lenape people sustained their communities with the land they lived on. ![]() Lenape means “the People.” 1 They are of the Algonquian-language family who first lived in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Agriculture has been practiced in the Hudson Highlands for thousands of years, beginning with the native people in this region, the Lenni Lenape. In juxtaposition, the histories of the green pastures of the Hudson Valley and the built environments of New York City illustrate a colonized repurpose of land. I have started Project Oasis to explore ways of redefining agriculture, bringing it to built environments, and advocating for the reclamation of public space for agriculture in New York’s urban food deserts. As a city dweller who is now passionate about green spaces, I believe agriculture could be used to bridge the gap-not the inequalities-between the Bronx and the Hudson Highlands. Born and raised in the Bronx, I am the product of built environments-the concrete and steel mountains of project buildings and skyscrapers. As I take in the beautiful sights, I can’t stop thinking about the environment where I grew up.
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