At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
We added some green to the play area on the roof of a Williamsburg pre-school…
At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
This summer has been a mixed blessing for the little sedum that I brought for the Festival for the New City, but after some care through the worst of the heat waves, they are doing awesome. I have to thin them out a little (I just put all of the leftover sedum in the trays [...]
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 [...]
As we rapidly approach the launch of Seeding the City (in September, more info on participating), we check in on the growth of the modules on the roof of Covenant House. The grasses are having a hard time, but the sedum have already started to spread. And some local wildcards have taken root… I wonder [...]
I am so excited to announce a new aspect of the project which will be launching in the next couple of weeks. Over the course of the summer, I will be working with Covenant House to put together and grow the green roof modules. In a couple of weeks we will build the modules and [...]
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