Growing or picking food on New York City’s public land has been off-limits for almost a century

Swale is an experiential and educational food forest built on a deck barge that utilizes marine common law to circumvent NYC’s public land laws.

While working to shift policies that will increase the presence of edible perennial public lands, Swale can help build stewardship of public waterways and land. When treated as a commons, food production can be less polluting, and food access can be more just.