Learn to How to Create a Potager: A French Kitchen Garden

In the French kitchen garden or potager, gardeners have intermingled vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs since medieval times. Learn how to plan and select plants for a beautiful and productive potager.

By Louisa Jones

A Tough Winter for Birds

What's an ant-eating bird like the northern flicker to do for food during a winter as harsh as this one?

By Bradley Klein

Anyone Inside?

Bald-faced hornets' nests are easy to spot in winter's bare trees. Are the hornets still living inside?

By Ashley Gamell

A Winter Woodpecker Superfecta

Even on the coldest winter day there are plenty of birds to observe at BBG. We recently spotted 22 species in a single hour, including four woodpeckers.

By Bradley Klein

How Do Buds Survive Winter?

Spring flowers and leaves have already formed and are hidden inside tree buds. How do these tender plant parts survive sub-freezing temperatures?

By Ashley Gamell

Where Did the Turtles Go?

During the winter, what happens to the red-eared sliders, painted turtles, and koi you see at BBG in the warm months?

By Ashley Gamell

Wonderful Winter Photo Ops

By Blanca Begert

Shop at Whole Foods for BBG

Be sure to shop at the new Brooklyn Whole Foods Market Third & 3rd store this Saturday, January 11, when five percent of net sales will go to BBG's children's education programs.

By BBG Staff

Growing the Greenest Kids in Brooklyn

By Nina Browne

School Gardens: Plan(t) for Succession and Success

So your new school garden is beautiful. Students nurture and nibble kale, carrots, tomatoes, and garlic. Science classes observe and calculate plant growth. Young poets write odes to flowers. You have albums of gorgeous photos. The principal is 100 percent committed. Then, the dynamo volunteer—parent or teacher—leaves the school or changes priorities due to tighter schedules or revamped curriculum. The “uh-oh” moment hits hard: What will happen to our garden?

By Nina Browne and Michele Israel