Urban Gardens

I came cross this cool spinning “ferris wheel” planter while researching items to include in the small two-room garden shed I am designing with interior designer, Victoria Lyon for the upcoming Stamford Designer Show House.  Though the location is certainly more peri-urban…

There’s a new kid on the interactive magazine block. Urban Gardens was a contributor to this month’s issue of Artizen Magazine, a bi-monthly online publication of Catstone Press. The magazine’s June issue features our story Summertime and the Gardenin’ is Easy:…

Home to several lesser known urban gardens that are wonderful destinations for some quiet respite from the concrete jungle, Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs, was mostly farmland until the 1960s when the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was built.

Jacques Marchais…

Sustainable Flatbush volunteers planting daffodils, 2009

More than a tree is growing in Brooklyn. Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are, presented by Sustainable Flatbush Sunday, February 21,  is an afternoon of short demonstrations and hands-on workshops including seed-starting for kids and adults, composting…

Solar One, New York City’s first solar-powered “Green Energy, Arts, and Education Center,” that inspires New Yorkers to become environmentally responsible city dwellers, presents SOLAR 2: The First Carbon-Neutral, Net-Zero Energy Building in New York City. Construction is set to…