Sunset Park
At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
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At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
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At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…
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We added some green to the play area on the roof of a Williamsburg pre-school…
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For Immediate Release Contact: Eve Mosher
October 19, 2009 646-492-1314
eve@evemosher.com
Patches of green sprouting across New York City
October – December, 2009
It may feel like fall in most of the New York, but on rooftops throughout the city, as little patches of green are sprouting, it feels a little more like spring.
Seeding the City, another public intervention by [...]
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 realized [...]
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 what kind of [...]
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 sedum. It [...]
I am so excited to announce a new aspect of the project which will be launching in the next couple of weeks.
Over the course of the summer, I will be working with Covenant House to put together and grow the green roof modules. In a couple of weeks we will build the modules and plant [...]
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 the benefits of [...]
So after much research and consideration, I have decided that I want to make my own modules for the project. This will probably save money, but there are other reasons for wanting to do this.
I can use expanded clay in the soil mixture or Gaia Soil in the trays as opposed to the not great [...]
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