Monday, April 21st, 2008
Big thanks again to all participants and to Eyebeam for hosting and supporting this piece. It was a beautiful, warm, perfectly inspirational, spring day outside, and inside, together, we sowed and distributed several hundred seed pots for planting in gardens across New York City and Boston! It was good dirty work and lots of fun. More pictures, video, and information about the seeds we planted can be found here and here.
I’ll be working on the Garden Gallery over the summer, so hopefully we’ll get some progress images of these little guys in their new homes further into the season.
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Date: April 19, 2008
Time: 3-6 pm
Place: Eyebeam, 540 21st Street, New York, NY
URLS: Sow-in, Eyebeam, Feedback
Help save our food this Saturday at Eyebeam!
I’m hosting Sow-in at Eyebeam this weekend during Sustainability Action Day of the Feedback Exhibition. Together we will sow seeds of our most endangered food plants and send them off with folks to grow in their gardens all over New York City.
Also on the agenda, Brooke Singer will conduct toxic tours, Natalie Jeremijenko will lead a surface-level noPARK action, and the Lower East Side Ecology center will be demonstrating worm bins.
So come out, get your hands dirty, have some fun, see the Feedback show, if you haven’t already, and take home some rare seeds (and maybe worms) for your garden!
Photos courtesy of Seed Savers Exchange and Native Seeds
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Last month I had the pleasure of meeting with Isak Mendez, Educational Director of Lefferts Historic House located in Prospect Park Brooklyn. The Lefferts family was one of the first to settle in Brooklyn, and the house dates back to 1783. Originally located near Flatbush Avenue, the family donated it to the city in 1918, and it was moved to its present location, where it serves today as a museum preserving and presenting a important piece of Brooklyn history.
This place is a unique window into the past, showcasing period crafts, tools, toys, and furniture. Folks visiting can make candles, sew, churn butter, start fire without matches, spin yarn, and do some farming. Isak and I discussed possibilities of working on some plantings together in conjunction with Sharecropper. Perhaps some historic vegetables relevant to the time period, or maybe even antique fruit trees. It was a fascinating visit. Here are more photos of the house and grounds, and more information on Lefferts Historic House so you can go too!
Monday, February 18th, 2008
When I met Artist, Lucy Kim at MacDowell, she was in the process of moving to New York City from Yale, and just signed a lease for an apartment in this Crown Heights 75 unit building. One of her first acts of kindness upon arrival was to hook me up with some space in need of green. What is particulary cool about this location is that there are a number of senior citizens in residence who might enjoy a summer of gardening.
On offer is a large interior courtyard. I visited on a cloudy day, so I’m not certain what kind of light shines here, but we’ll keep watch as the days grow longer to determine if there will be enough to grow food. Thank you Lucy!
