Michael Ableman wants to grow more than buildings on the World
Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. The Goleta, California,
farmer and author is thinking apples and herbs and vegetables. His
vision of a two- or three-acre urban farm at Ground Zero would
include orchards, greenhouses, food markets, space for gardening
and cooking classes, and soil and seeds collected from around the
world. The farm, he explained in The New York Times, ?would show
that we know how to bring forth life and nourishment from the
rubble of hate and destruction.?