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Farmer’s Market Bounty
Having just read Tomatoland, Barry Estabrook’s hair-raising exposé of the winter-tomato industry in Florida, I’ve resolved again to buy small, local, and organic whenever possible–and to raise more tomatoes of my own next year! In the meantime, here are some … Continue reading
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Tagged Long beans, Turkish Orange Eggplant, Zebra Eggplant
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Sheep May Safely Graze
“Where are the PETA people?” The New York Post reporter looked worried. She was supposed to be covering the anticipated protests over Prince Charles’s multinational Campaign for Wool, which on this particular day happened to include an event with live … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryant Park, Campaign for Wool, Merino, Prince Charles, Sheep and Wool Festival, Southdown
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YouTube’s Urban Gardener (Hey, Great Title!)
If I had a larger garden (and bankroll), I would hire Denton Tarver to come transform my container garden into a showpiece. Denton is a designer at ViewPoints Exterior & Garden Design in Manhattan and host of a program called … Continue reading
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Tagged Denton Tarver, SpacesTV, Urban Gardener
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Urban Farm (Battery Included!)
I know. This photo of lower Manhattan from the harbor doesn’t look anything like a garden. But nestled between the Staten Island Ferry terminal (on the far right) and the rising towers of the new World Trade Center (on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Battery Conservancy, Battery Urban Farm, Monarch butterflies mating
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The Ultimate Urban Garden–and Me
The ultimate urban garden may be New York’s Central Park. The casual visitor might think that it’s just as nature created it, but in fact it had a giant helping hand from designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Park, container gardening, euonymus
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