At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For Immediate Release Contact: Eve Mosher October 19, 2009 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, [...]
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 [...]
We added some green to the play area on the roof of a Williamsburg pre-school…
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 [...]
With the beautiful weather that has descended upon NYC, we here at Seeding The City have been itching to get our fingers dirty. Over the weekend we planted some test modules with herbs (some that are good in sandy dry shallow soil – cuban oregano anyone?) and some that traditionally don’t do as well (rosemary?) [...]
Though there are still a lot of things going on with the HighWaterLine project, my mind and focus have moved on to greener pastures (quite literally). I have been working on the Seeding the City Project (or for short g’roofs). I won’t post a whole lot in here in the beginning, just wanted to get [...]
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