At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…
At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…
At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
We added some green to the play area on the roof of a Williamsburg pre-school…
For Immediate Release Contact: Eve Mosher October 19, 2009 Patches of green sprouting across New York City October – December, 2009 It may feel like fall in most of the New York, but on rooftops throughout the city, as little patches of green are sprouting, it feels a little more like spring. Seeding the City, [...]
The plants are growing now! I was lucky enough to spend part of the last week working with the fabulous staff and kids at Covenant House New York. We were on the roof of their building in midtown Manhattan on two gloroous afternoons mixing the growing medium and planting all of the grasses and [...]
I am planning to plant a test site this spring, to test out different types of modular roof systems (sacks & trays) in different configurations (does just 1 do okay or does there need to be 2 or more modules) and different plants (seedum vs. native). In order to do that I will need a [...]
See if you can spot the Seeding the City cameo! Join me at the Festival to build your own green roof module and take home one with a flag and install it on your roof to become a part of the growing network. For more information on the Festival: – Info.: http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/about – Interactive Map: [...]
With the beautiful weather that has descended upon NYC, we here at Seeding The City have been itching to get our fingers dirty. Over the weekend we planted some test modules with herbs (some that are good in sandy dry shallow soil – cuban oregano anyone?) and some that traditionally don’t do as well (rosemary?) [...]
Though there are still a lot of things going on with the HighWaterLine project, my mind and focus have moved on to greener pastures (quite literally). I have been working on the Seeding the City Project (or for short g’roofs). I won’t post a whole lot in here in the beginning, just wanted to get [...]
So I have written a couple of different summary statements. Which do you like better? “Seeding the City” is a public art project that seeks to plant “seeds” of thought in the urban environment on challenges of climate change and potential for remediation. Social networking will determine the location for installation of individual green roof [...]
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