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Saving the Planet One Garden at a Time
I am lucky enough to have a balcony in our apartment. That was really important to me when we were apartment hunting. I wanted a place that I could grow something, even if it wasn’t the full fledged garden I want. Interesting and unique solution to high rise apartments with no balcony. This would make a really cool herb garden in a kitchen window.
Atlantic Avenue Station // N, R, Q, B, D, 2, 3, 4, 5 subway trains, Long Island Rail Road
Valery Rizzo: Grown in Brooklyn
Lightbox transparenciesGrown in Brooklyn exhibits color images highlighting local farms and purveyors of fresh produce located in Brooklyn, not far from the exhibit location. Valery Rizzo, a Brooklyn photographer, has spent the last year photographing urban agriculture together with artisanal and locally grown food in Brooklyn. Her striking images show the people and places which are part of the Brooklyn agriculture scene. Locating these images in a subway station underscores the challenges of farming in a dense urban environment.
Among the places featured are the Tenth Acre Farms in Greenpoint, Added Value’s Red Hook Community Farm in Red Hook, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, as well as the Nile Valley Eco-Juice and Salad Bar at DeKalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn.
Valery Rizzo studied at Pratt Institute, International Center for Photography and School of Visual Art. Her food photography blog, Eating Brooklyn shares her photographs, recipes and thoughts about food issues.
The transparencies are made possible by the generous support of Kodak and Digital Plus, which printed the photographs. The exhibit remains on view until December 2012.
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Beautiful. It would be but a dream to be able to build this kind of art. But sadly I kill plants so this won’t be happening.“Il Giardino di Gatti”, The Garden of Cats. I have a lot of photos of this garden I’d like to share. I’d sit on a bench and just watch it grow, thinking about the next thing to do. It was a very meditative place to be.
I had 300 evergreens, most of them little boxes, around a foot in height. I took some of the plants when I moved, and I still have them after eight years. I’m awfully sentimental about plants, as I’ve moved to different homes along the way.
The scanned colors aren’t as cohesive as my photo, so I’m going to keep tweaking it now!
Make Seed Tapes: A Better Way to Sow Seeds
Spring is the busiest time in the garden, and any way you can save time is welcome. In seed catalogs I saw the term “seed tapes” and when I saw their high price I decided to make my own. It’s easy and fun, and it saves time and money at planting time. Besides it has always pained me to commit “seedlingcide” with the surplus plants that sprouted, no matter how sparsely I sowed seeds….Read more here
Some botanical illustrations from Botany for the Artist, 2010 by Sarah Simblet
Simblet’s book has just about everything you need to know about botanical illustration. While amazing at her botanical art, she also has some great art books about anatomy as well.
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Our garden blogger Paige Smith Orloff is getting her hands dirty for the first time in the season: Back to the Garden: Ready, Set, Seed!
There’s something very satisfying about making seed pots from old newspapers. Maybe it’s the full circle thing (trees —> paper —> seedlings —> compost —> earth—> new plants). Or maybe it’s the delight of using the detritus of capitalism to nurture new life. Or maybe it’s just good clean, thrifty fun. What do you use to start your seedlings? ~AR
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Cypripedium reginae Walter
Photo by user http://www.flickr.com/people/54726908@N00/
More info on this specie in http://orcheeder.com/orchids/species/cypripedium-reginae/4053/
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