VIDEO: Growing Cotton in Your Front Yard
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Video: Vivian Reiss: Artist, Designer, Urban Farmer & Culinary Innovator
http://vimeo.com/52122212 Step into the vibrant world of Vivian Reiss—an artist, designer, urban farmer, and culinary creator. In this exclusive video interview by her son Joel Garten, filmed in her extraordinary…
“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…
Of Rye and Radishes
Rye in my garden This morning looking out at my garden, I noticed that the rye was ripening in the paisley bed near the elephant. How did that happen? Just…
“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…
Expanding Rooftop Garden
Even though it is still quite cold, it is time to start the cold weather crops such as lettuce. In a month or so bunches of our beautiful organic…
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…
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"…
Palm Beach Hedge Fund
In midieval San Gimignano tall towers were the symbol of wealth and power. Eventually there were 72 such structures rising ever higher in this Tuscan hilltop village. Today few still remain. In Palm…
Flora and Fauna, US VI
I didn't manage to capture the dolphins dancing and playing for us in the bay below our house but did capture the hummingbirds feeding on the cactus flowers. Here is…