Robin Lane Fox offers up Holland as a model for how urban, volunteer-based gardens can become successfully integrated into the patchwork of modern society.
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April 27, 2011
Dutch dig big society
April 21, 2011
The city is getting greener thanks to grants just awarded to 29 schools to create garden classrooms.
“Our goal is to have a garden or access to a garden in every public school in the city,” said Marcel Van Ooyen, director of GrowNYC, which awarded the grants with the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.
The winning schools, spread throughout the five boroughs, won up to $2,000 each to create or expand a school garden.
April 10, 2011
"You put a head of cabbage in the coop, hang it from a string, and they can jump up and pick at it so they don’t get bored."
April 8, 2011
The $2,500 Chard Plot
Urban farmer and author Novella Carpenter was fined $2,500 for growing chard in her Oakland garden. If you’re an urban gardener, you should be aware of these sorts of problems. Make sure your garden is legal by checking this zoning laws map from Grown in the City.
April 6, 2011
Thoughts of a Former Gardener
Mark Bittman looks back on gardens in his past and ponders his future gardening prospects.
April 4, 2011
"Six and a half years ago I realized I was itching to do something more than just a little bit of a window box or something more than house plants and the opportunity was on my doorstep, neglected public flower beds. … I decided I would be the one who started doing something about it."
— Great interview with Richard Reynolds, founder of the Guerrilla Gardening movement. What do you think of Guerrilla Gardening?
(Source: abcnews.go.com)
April 2, 2011
March 21, 2011
Where does your NYC garden grow?
Free and cheap events help at-home gardeners grow.
March 6, 2011
A look at a remarkable urban garden in Brooklyn Heights from The New York Times.
February 10, 2011
A worthy event, to be sure. And probably a lot of fun, too! Urban Dirt - Monthly Talks on Urban Gardening and Farming.
February 1, 2011
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It’s not just Oakland, Berkeley, and New Orleans. Across the country — as the national membership of Rooted in Community reveals — innovative food and agriculture projects created for and run by the next generation of farmers are sprouting up all over.
And collectively they have a simple message they want to convey about what we eat: Everybody has a right to good food.
"— Bay Area Bites - Urban Youth on Growing and Selling Good Food
(Source: foodnewsjournal.com)
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Artist Philip Haas installation of the Four Seasons in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Courtyard at the NYBG (New York Botanical Garden)....
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Imagined conversations from bygone times
What do we want?
A robust variety of naturally-occurring flora in bloom for campus beauty and...
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Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY.
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People just accept that I love the New York Botanical Garden and look at the pictures of the pretty things.
BTW NYBG I love the new Native Plants...
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Rosemary (in NYBG pot) and friend
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Love you, Mom <3
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Happy National Public Gardens Day! A female carpenter bee visiting the pea vines yesterday. She’s California’s largest bee.
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