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Urban Gardening
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Healthy Lawns
What's BBG's secret to resilient, sustainable, chemical-free lawns?
By Sarah Schmidt -
Making Brooklyn Blue
What’s blue, sweet, healthy, and native to Brooklyn? Highbush blueberries! Vaccinium corymbosum is beautiful and bears delicious fruit bursting with nutrients.
By Maureen O’Brien -
Saving Seed for a Stronger City
Last spring, I helped launch North Brooklyn Farms (NBk) on the grounds of the defunct Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg. Once a weedy symbol of lost industry, it’s now a showcase for how to grow a variety of edibles.
By Ryan Watson -
Street Tree Bed Care: Tales from the Trenches
Everything you ever wanted to know about gardening on a city street...but were afraid to ask
By Sarah Schmidt -
The View from the Green Roof
What does BBG's green roof look like up close?
By Blanca Begert -
Using Newspaper as Mulch
Newspaper makes an excellent, weed-suppressing mulch and can also be used to keep prolific garden plants in check.
By Sarah Schmidt -
New Native Flora Garden Grows Local
When it comes to living and eating more sustainably, we’ve all heard, “Go local.” Brooklyn Botanic Garden will embody this edict when the Native Flora Garden expansion opens later this spring.
By Nina Browne -
Mindful Gardening: Protecting Your Trees
More than a month after superstorm Sandy, New Yorkers are still addressing the extensive damage to the city’s trees. Here are guidelines on caring for trees so that they stay strong and healthy through any weather.
By Melanie Sifton -
Gardening Like Our Life Depends on It
What makes New Yorkers so able to bounce back from disaster? Community horticulturists know: We live in relationship, not isolation. Brooklyn gardeners collaborate and learn to respect each other, though it’s not always easy, as well as Mother Nature.
By Robin Simmen -
Hedge Fun
One man's quest for the perfect hedge.
By William Lach
