Sunday April 12, 2009

times coverage of yesterday’s seed bombing

Britt Bolnick, her daughter Bella Pagtov Karbownika, 3, and Liz Neveswere among those planting wildflower seeds on Saturday.Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.

The event made it into the Times, and so did I, though it could be

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Saturday April 11, 2009

soggy bed-stuy meadow

I had high hopes for this day. The rain was meant to taper off early in the afternoon. I met a friend and her 3-year-old daughter (Bella) at the rendezvous point. We arrived at our destination

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Friday April 10, 2009

beautify bed-stuy, tomorrow!

I can’t wait to start throwing those seed bombs! (Rain or shine)

Repost of an oldpost

I’ve been wanting to throw some seed bombs since I wrote about Green Guerrillas last summer (and maybe even before that). Well

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Tuesday April 7, 2009

feeling grateful

[Image: PaP67's Fotothing]

After the street tree bed gardening workshop at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (which I mentioned briefly in my last post and a related post), I had the rare opportunity to walk through the garden

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Thursday March 26, 2009

permaculture applies

[Image: Chelsea Green via Treehugger

If there’s one thing I want to focus on from a permaculture class I attended last weekend it’s this: start small and intensively.

The principles of permaculture can apply to gardening, but they

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Wednesday March 11, 2009

spreading love in the form of flowers in bed stuy

I’ve been wanting to throw some seed bombs since I wrote about Green Guerrillas last summer (and maybe even before that). Well now I’m going to have the chance to live the dream, and you can

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Wednesday March 4, 2009

great green events in bklyn

After the recent snowstorm that blanketed the city, I’m really feeling the itch of Spring. It’ll soon be time to get outside and enjoy the budding trees, the blooming flowers, the [ah-choo] pollinating plants.
Here are some

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