Harvest Time in Harlem
In this day and age of schoolyard gardening-mania, the most important lesson I’ve learned in many years of attempting to grow carrots on school property is making sure you have dedicated staff on the site to keep the plants alive when the season changes and the chilrden ...
Time to start planting!
This morning, with the abundance of good weather days we’ve had, I decided to commit the cardinal sin of zone 6: planting before the frost-free date of April 15th. Truth be told, we’ve been planting for over a ...
WNYC features food not lawns
This week, I joined food-not-lawns revolutionary Fritz Haeg, borough president Scott Stringer, and Growing Power’s Will Allen on New York’s own WNYC radio. The conversation, a two hour evening event led by host Leonard Lopate, can be found ...
Urban Farming on WNYC
On April 8th, 2010, Fritz Haeg and Metropolis Books will celebrate the release of the new edition of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn with a lively conversation at WNYC’s Greene Space exploring the ...
On the pleasures of urban agriculture
This post appeared on March 24th with the Atlantic. Photo, Adam Golfer.
At 20 years old, when I was a very susceptible young thinker, I read Wendell Berry’s essay “The Pleasures of Eating.” To ...
Lambs & Greenhorns
This weekend, the day and night paced an even twelve hours each, and I drove upstate with four friends to celebrate the equinox in Kinderhook, New York. The event was dinner with the Greenhorns; the ...
Farm Season Begins
This morning, spring jumped the clock forward an hour and the mid-March day, as though awakened from its den, stormed forward like the proverbial lion to rain, hail, rain, mist, and rain again after a brief window of sunshine. Not to be deterred, at 8am ...
Greenthumb Greenpoint
This post originally appeared on Greenpointers.blogspot.com
Late last year, post rooftop-farm season, I started working on a bioremediation project in north Greenpoint. The land in question is soil-turned-gravel-parking-lot, turned soil ...
