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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]