He spent most of his childhood on a sixty - five - acre agricultural property his parents owned in Pomona , New York , with his two sisters .
Dashew was the middle child of the family , born in the Harlem district in New York City .
Dashew spent most of Dashew 's childhood on a sixty - five - acre agricultural property his parents owned in Pomona , New York , with his two sisters .
Dashew was the middle child of the family , born in the Harlem district in New York City .