February 2012
8 posts
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Feb 15th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 3rd
487 notes
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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January 2012
23 posts
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
Jan 31st
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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winter...pictures coming
i know i have been re-blogging other people’s pictures, but i will post what the roof looks like in the snow soon…getting snow here today…we were able to get a layer of peat down yesterday, topping off trays that were low…we are getting much positive feedback as this urban farming thing takes off across the country, it is amazing how putting plants on our roof is now a...
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
5 notes
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comparing nyc urban farms to malmo, sweden
This past summer a couple from sweden came to the roof farm and got quotes and pictures for a book they are doing comparing nyc and a major town in sweden…here is a recent email: “Our book “Staden som åkermark-hållbar stadsodling i New York och Malmö, or ” - City farming- sustainable farming in New York and Malmö”- contains stories from BK Farmyards, Georgias Rooftop,...
Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 6th
23 notes
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Jan 5th
30 notes
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“He knows no winter, he who loves the soil, For, stormy days, when he is free...”
– - Sudie Stuart Hager, He Knows No Winter Mamis Garden   (via batesnursery)
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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December 2011
10 posts
Dec 30th
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winter...kinda
arrgghh! it is so aggravating to be experiencing this mild weather having already ripped out our warm weather crops…with the temperatures hovering in the 50s, we also could have planted a massive amount of fall lettuce and spinach and would have been rolling in green and red right now… but, alas, our beds sit empty, (well some beds have garlic cloves sprouting)… i guess we...
Dec 30th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
Dec 15th
Dec 13th
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winter
i just can’t bring myself to accept, (and do the work), we have to kinda shut the farm down for the winter…there is a perverse pleasure in ripping up the summer plants, but it makes me sad
Dec 13th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 1st
November 2011
11 posts
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Nov 28th
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fall is...
in these last couple of weeks on the roof farm, i have had a revelation…i was busy mourning the loss of the lush green roofscape, and hurting whilst we pulled up the warm weather, leggy basil/tomatoes/marigolds and such, thinking how sparse everything is becoming, (the empty beds looking forlorn), when i realized something… it is just fall, just one of the four seasons, all of which...
Nov 22nd
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Nov 15th
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Nov 15th
7 tags
right off the vine...
again offering bulging sweet fall snap peas right off the vine to everyone that comes to the roof, (the snow made them sweeter), and being met with physical recoil and quizzical looks and these type of statements… “don’t you have to do anything to them first?”… “eewwww!”… “that’s not right” “shouldn’t you wash...
Nov 15th
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Nov 14th
Nov 10th
Nov 8th
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winterizing
so, this past weekend, (and for the past couple weeks on and off), we have begun to get the beds ready for their long winter’s nap.  what does this mean, you might ask?  well, a variety of things including mourning the passing of consistent warm weather.  john and yemi had planted fall snap peas and bok choy in august and both are now exploding with bright greenness.  the snow did not really...
Nov 8th