For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
At Willow Marsh Farm in Ballston, primary operator Charles B. Curtiss hooks up a milking machine to one of his red Holstein cows. Curtiss, a fourth-generation farmer, received a state permit in January to sell raw milk.