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Recipe: Valentine’s Day Sweet Potato Cake
Sweet potatoes are high in complex carbohydrates, beta carotene, vitamin C, calcium, potassium, and even protein. Their perfect partner? Dark chocolate.
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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.
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Recipe: Apple Dutch Baby
When I recently decided to make a Dutch baby, a wonderful pancake variation, my extra farm share apples were an obvious addition.
By Ariel Nadelberg -
Saying Goodbye to Natural History
Look back at Natural History and pay one last visit to see the Patrick Dougherty sculpture before it's gone.
By BBG Staff -
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.
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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.
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Hedge Fun
One man's quest for the perfect hedge.
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Much Ado About Mulch
Spring is a terrific time of year to remove salt-sprayed, winter-worn mulch and treat your street tree to a fresh dressing. And Hurricane Sandy left Brooklyn with an abundant surplus of wood chips to use.
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School Cafeteria Lunch Goes Green
Delicious fresh salad greens and a spicy radish relish made with ingredients grown at BBG were featured in the Prospect Heights High School cafeteria on Thursday.
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Garden Plants Find New Homes in Brooklyn
Last week Brooklyn Botanic Garden gave away over 200 beautiful, healthy perennials and trees and countless bulbs to dozens of community gardens in Brooklyn, including some of those hardest hit by the recent storms.
By Robin Simmen
