> A 55-year-old shopper said she leaves it up to the jolly green giant in the sky.

> “I buy from the community garden,” she said. “I pray before I eat it that anything in there won’t kill me.”

These people vote

I'm short sighted, I am not welcome in church

(Leviticus 21:18-21)

Any, any, permaculture meetup in NY will tell you emphatically not to use the soil in the ground and to build raised beds which is what all sensible gardeners (not farmer) do. Community Gardens get extremely highly quality soil from our composting problems.

There are a few bad actors here, and the NY Post is blowing it out of proportion and creating a scare.

Not surprising. Urban gardens are awesome for making a city feel like home, and providing a relaxing escape from stressful city life.

But eating vegetables grown in NYC soil, breathing NYC air? Lets keep the food producing to farming lands outside of dense cities.