The Curtiss Urban Farm Foundation
CUFF was founded in 2006 to improve, develop and support the East Side neighborhoods of Buffalo through the creation of an urban farm utilizing numerous vacant lots. CUFF was founded to help revitalize the Broadway Market neighborhood through establishing farms on under utilized resources.
Mission:
CUFF seeks to instill residents with pride in their neighborhood by increasing interactions among the residents and with other communities and strengthening these relationships.
Laboratories for Urban Regeneration and Education (LURE) plans to utilize abandoned lots in the Broadway Market Village to strengthen the neighborhoods food system, and demonstrate productive and low maintenance land uses in the City of Buffalo.
These lots will provide a physical space to implement alternative land uses and sustainable development projects of Premium Services, Dr. Joe Gardella, the Curtis Street Urban Farm Foundation, the Buffalo Niagara River Keepers, the Wilson Street Urban Farm.
The short-term goal of the program, however, is to develop an education program that uses the tools of green job development, agriculture and entrepreneurship to restore abandoned properties.
www.buffalocuff.org/
East Side locations: Clark Street, Memorial Drive, Curtiss Street, Sycamore Street, Wilson Street, Paderewski Drive, Harvard Drive
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