Flowers for your Mama

 
In collaboration with the Woodbine Garden, we are having a “Mother’s Day Plant Sale” all week out here in Bushwick. If anyone is in the area, feel free to stop by. I will be in/around the Secret Garden tomorrow afternoon and/or Thursday during the day.

Wake up (and smell the flowers)

I managed to capture this on video on my way to work today. I like it because it was spontaneous and at first you can’t tell you are in a city, then the clues start seeping in…

This was taken on the corner of Bushwick and Gates (where I live).

City Composting

During the discussion of how to organize our community garden out here in Bushwick, many of the older community members took issue with food composting because in the past, it has attracted rats. At the time, I felt like it would be a little rude to counter their reluctance with blaming the maintenance of the [...]

Earth Day Events in NYC

So it just dawned on me that tomorrow is EARTH DAY!
I am going to be running a vermicompost workshop at the Hope Gardens Community Center in the morning, then heading over to the Woodbine Garden to plant some seeds with student groups.

If you can’t join us out in Bushwick, here’s a list of events you [...]

The Season is Here

Welcome.
At Xposure, we are just starting some of our seeds.

The kids planted their own clusters of carrots (above), cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and dahlia flowers. However, my friend Lewis decided to get a head start because he gets such great light in his apartment…

Pictured above: corn, peppers – fantastic city veggie, herbs – these are mint [...]

Zoning Out

So the USDA has divided the continent into 11 “Plant Hardiness Zones” which are supposed to represent the soil tempertaure gradient up the globe that determines the beginning of each region’s growing season, which should also be useful for choosing what types of seeds to plant. The National Gardening Association recommends you use blooming flowers [...]

Community Commitment

Last night, I attended the Linden-Bushwick Block Association meeting about the Secret Garden on the corner of Linden and Broadway in Brooklyn. The committee is run by a small group of elderly people. They run the garden with the support of

Green Guerrillas
Greenthumb
The Trust for Public Land
NY Cares

These organizations provide us with much needed tools, compost, [...]

A Secret Garden in Brooklyn, NY

This is a really fantastic space right below the J train off of the Gates Avenue stop. It doesn’t look like much from the street, but when you enter through the second gate, it’s an urban farmer’s dream!
This garden has been set up in association with our lovely neighbors, the Woodbine Garden. In the following [...]