(By EILEEN BUCKLEY, WBFO) A Brooklyn-based architect has set his sights on an urban farm on Buffalo’s East Side to create Artfarms. It is an art project that would be designed not only to highlight an urban farm, but provide some water for the crops.
WBFO & AM-970’s Eileen Buckley recently visited the Wilson Street Farm site to find out about this effort.
It’s a warm, sunny mid-afternoon on Wilson Street of Broadway. At some point, you almost feel transformed to a country setting. You can hear crickets and there are bright, red tomatoes growing off vines, but you are standing along a worn out city street -half of a city block where homes on once side. However, those houses are long gone. They were among the hundreds that have been demolished. But just a few years ago an urban farm family moved around the corner from Wilson Street.
