Today is the winter solstice, and a snowy one at that. Brooklyn is blanketed in about 10″ of powder, the kind that finds apartment dwellers staying inside and huddling around whistling radiators. You might think this weather would bum out an urban farmer, remind her of how long it’ll be before the last frost and [...]
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Thoughts on the solstice and a whole lot of snow
Posted in Inspiration on December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rooftop Livestock
Posted in Inspiration, tagged bees, brooklyn, brooklyn grange, chicken, city, green roof, livestock, new york, roof farm, roof garden, rooftop farm, sheep, urban, urban agriculture, urban farm, urban farming on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Thanksgiving I went upstate for a traditional family feast at my uncle’s farm. He lives outside of Cooperstown on several dozen acres complete with hay fields and pasture and woods and a creek. I always assumed that some day I would move out to the country and buy a farm like his to satisfy [...]
It’s your beeswax
Posted in Inspiration, tagged apiary, bee, beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, brandon hoy, brookly, brooklyn, brooklyn grange, chicken, city, green roof, new york, roof farm, roof garden, rooftop farm, urban agriculture, urban farming on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our first two queens we named Michelle Obama & Mata Hari
