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Maritza Owens has spent her career building something out of nothing. She’s been managing farmers’ markets since 1993, but it took her 15 years to take it on full-time. And today, she’s the chief executive offcer of Harvest Home—a nonprofit that runs 20 markets in four of the five boroughs—all at addresses that, according to Owens, no one else wanted anything to do with. It all started in the Bronx. Back in 1993, the Bronx Perinatal consortium was attempting to reduce a high incidence of infant mortality due to teen pregnancy, and part of the plan was making sure that young mothers had access to healthy food. She helped establish two farmers’ markets in the South Bronx, and it took off from there. “At that time in a lot of those neighborhoods, supermarkets had left. And the quality of the food in the supermarkets was crap,” says Owens. For years, Harvest Home was a sole proprietorship with market fees as the only funding, but Owens, who has worked in the field of public health in low-income areas her entire career, kept the markets going using her home as an office.

“I got pissed off about the fact that, at that time, farmers’ markets were very elitist,” she says. “They were only in white neighborhoods and they didn’t think markets could survive in minority neighborhoods.” With 20 Harvest Home markets now in operation, Owens has proved any doubters wrong. In the beginning, she was essentially cold-calling farms from a Department of Agriculture registry list. And many Harvest Home markets still lack the frills of the city’s larger market operations. But Owens says she kept going all these years because “Every year I would go to the market and see the people shopping. I mean, they weren’t huge like Greenmarkets, but they served the community. They didn’t have heirloom tomatoes or cheese or dairy, but they could get fresh fruits and veggies, and that was the focus.” Six of the Harvest Home markets are now run in partnership with Department of Health and Human Services hospitals—a partnership Owens speaks about with pride.

“Our missions are totally in sync and they are extremely supportive,” she says. Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) centers at the hospital work directly with the markets; tumi halle backpack salesome of the hospitals have developed educational programs surrounding market foods, to help patients with diabetes and obesity-related illnesses.backpack hud tf2 One of these centers is in front of Harlem Hospital on Lenox Avenue, and the impact is apparent. earthquake backpack costcoDoctors, patients, family members and staff have to pass by the market to get to the bodegas and fast food across the street—you can watch the gears turning as they debate whether to grab a peach instead of a bag of chips.asus rog shuttle backpack price

Carey King still has a serious North Carolina twang, though she has lived in Harlem for 10 years. In her past lives she has taught preschool in Louisiana and been a journalism student at Columbia University. sandstrom laptop backpackBut things started to change when she began volunteering for a new community-supported agriculture (CSA) operation in her neighborhood.dopp backpack staples She soon started running that CSA pickup point, and one thing led to another until, having left Columbia and moved from the west to the east side, she began working for GrowNYC. 45l backpack big enoughIt was a natural move for King since farming is in her blood—her dad’s side were vegetable farmers and her mom’s side farmed tobacco. Her grandparents were the farming generation and her parents left the land for office jobs.

“There was always a sense of loss there,” says King. She found shades of the South in Harlem culture. “Because of the Great Migration, so many people here have roots in the South. Especially working in food, people understand vegetables and the importance of having a garden … the first crop in spring.” So reviving some troubled city blocks through food seemed natural to her, when GrowNYC started a partnership with the New Harlem East Merchants Association (NHEMA), which sprang up in 2013 to take care of three avenues that were notoriously untended: 125th Street from Second to Fifth Avenue. With a wide street, a busy train station and a lot of unchecked loitering, cleaning up those three blocks would be a full-time job. “It has been a spot of need for so long. Everybody who passes by the intersection recognizes it as an area of need, but it’s such a deep need that everyone keeps their heads down and just walks through it because the human struggle that you still see at that spot is so enormous that no one person thought they had the agency to tackle it.”

But in July 2015, they were able to get 125th Street and Park approved as an official plaza through the city Department of Transportation. Soon Eric Gonzalez was hired as the new full-time caretaker of the viaduct. Wednesday afternoons, King joins Gonzalez out in the plaza (which they are now calling “Uptown Grand Central”) every Wednesday to sell packed bags of local produce and a few other staples. Gonzalez has never seen many of the vegetables that King brings to the market; she makes sure he tries all of them. Gonzalez occasionally gets help from volunteers as well, who come in to powerwash the new plaza and help Gonzalez with a never-ending task. Back at the viaduct, you can see the excitement on her face when businessmen with laptop backpacks go from top pace to confusedly slowing down to stopped at the sight of pastured eggs and Hot Bread Kitchen breads. “You watch it happen. It gathers people into a space where they intersect with people they wouldn’t normally interact with.