seeding the city

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• More in Williamsburg!

  We added some green to the play area on the roof of a Williamsburg pre-school…    

• Modules planted!!

    The plants are growing now! I was lucky enough to spend part of the last week working with the fabulous staff and kids at Covenant House New York. We were on the roof of their building in midtown Manhattan on two gloroous afternoons mixing the growing medium and planting all of the grasses and [...]

• Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy border

  At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…  

• Test Plot Roof Needed

  I am planning to plant a test site this spring, to test out different types of modular roof systems (sacks & trays) in different configurations (does just 1 do okay or does there need to be 2 or more modules) and different plants (seedum vs. native). In order to do that I will need a [...]

• It’s about potential!

  So the first installations went out today!! The first one went to the amazing people at Georgia’s Place in Crown Heights. I will upload photos asap. My amazing project manager, Amanda, picked up the modules at Covenant House and brought them out to Crown Heights. They looked great – they are quite small but I [...]

• Join my green pyramid scheme*, part 1

  I am officially announcing a call for first round participants for the Seeding the City green roof module installation. If you are a New York City resident and interested in hosting a 2′x4′ green roof module, here is how you can participate: Contact me. I will provide you with information on urban environmental issues and [...]

• What I did this week

  Well the NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship is great news! This allows me to not only go after grants that might not normally give to individuals, but it also allows me to reach out to individual donors who can then claim their donations as tax deductible. This also applies to corporate giving. On top of that I [...]

• The plants are growing & thriving

  As we rapidly approach the launch of Seeding the City (in September, more info on participating), we check in on the growth of the modules on the roof of Covenant House. The grasses are having a hard time, but the sedum have already started to spread. And some local wildcards have taken root… I wonder [...]

• and so it begins

  the first installations and flags are up!   More coming!  

• Growing the sedum

  I had a great conversation with a local representative of LiveRoof green roof modules yesterday. The headquarters had been very receptive to the project and put me in touch with a local nursery to answer questions about some of the more technical details. They are actually interested in testing out a native seedum that they [...]