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The Urban Farm is Manhattan's first public farm since the Dutch planted cottage gardens in New Amsterdam back in 1625.

Students from eight city schools and a number of community groups will use the space along State and Pearl Streets, which will include 80 organic vegetable plots.

Several park food vendors will also use vegetables and herbs grown there to prepare their offerings.

"It's just great to get the students to want to learn about it, to educate them about how great fresh food tastes," said The Battery Conservancy President Warrie Price.

"We have 600 community gardens in parks and in other places across the city and tourists for the most part aren't going to see those but they'll see this and they'll start to see the connection of New Yorkers to the soil," said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe.

The farm came about after Millennium High School's Environmental Club requested permission to plant a vegetable garden in the park.

"We'd been wanting to do a garden inside the school and we realized it's not a good idea to do it in a big office building so we wanted to have a nice open area and we've been to the park before so we decided to contact the Battery Park Conservancy and see what came up and we inspired this entire movement," said Millenium High School Student Suji Kim.

"I don't think that any of us actually thought that it would be this amazing. Like, this is huge, nothing we ever expected," said Millenium High School Student Rebecca Levine.

The one acre farm is fenced off by bamboo poles donated by the artists from last year's Big Bambu installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden.

For more information, visit thebattery.org.