Video: Dancing by Garden Painting & Art Tour Food Spread
A storage unit provided inspiration for dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LxY8Rx4qUA
Boutique Office Building Yields Bountiful Crops and Inspiration
Most office buildings are cloistered away from nature, let alone agriculture. One exception is the Toronto's 124 Merton St is a boutique office building, whose bounteous crops reap benefits for…
Video: Reiss interviewed in her garden
Vivian interviewed by her son Joel Garten. http://vimeo.com/52122212
“It’s a Long Long Time From May to December”
"Maypole" Columnar Apple Tree in Bloom on the Rooftop Garden 124 Merton Street in May 2011 The song, "It's a long, long time from May to December", chronicles the stages of…
“To V. or not to V.” The 3rd Act
The invitation to my birthday party read, "To v. or not to v.?" That is the question. Come to a birthday party to celebrate my birth, rebirth and the birth…
Getting to The Root of the Matter, How Deep Are Your Roots?
If you think; " a new broom sweeps clean," is a refreshing adage, you have no idea of how the concept of getting to the root of my garden's suffocation and plague is…
Tomato Panic or Red Alert [or yellow, purple, white, pink or maybe, striped alert]
Last week I had a tomato panic. I found out that Doris Giardino, who grew my beautiful heritage tomato seedlings for my www.124merton.com rooftop garden, was not growing them again…
Sow to Sew
Last year my boulevard garden yielded, as far as I know, 100% of Canada's cotton crop. Continuing my quest to live off the land in the city and grow "wearables"…
Vivian Ssier Painter
If only I had a last name that sounded fabulous spelled backwards. Arnold Issacs had such luck. In 1954 he was commissioned to create 10 dresses for a General…