At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
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 [...]
We added some green to the play area on the roof of a Williamsburg pre-school…
the first installations and flags are up! More coming!
I am officially announcing a call for first round participants for the Seeding the City green roof module installation. If you are a New York City resident and interested in hosting a 2′x4′ green roof module, here is how you can participate: Contact me. I will provide you with information on urban environmental issues and [...]
I had a great conversation with a local representative of LiveRoof green roof modules yesterday. The headquarters had been very receptive to the project and put me in touch with a local nursery to answer questions about some of the more technical details. They are actually interested in testing out a native seedum that they [...]
At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?) [...]
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: [...]
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