brookyn grange update

as mentioned in a previous post, this past saturday night was a celebration for the end of the season for Brookyn Grange, an incredible 1-acre roof farm in LIC, Queens I volunteered at this past summer....for the fall issue of Edible Queens, BG farm graced the cover along with many the awesome people, including Ben, Qwen, Anastasia, Hester (not in the picture but still awesome!), and Rob (I'm in back somewhere there also!) who gave their time to setting it up, running it, planting and transplanting, watering before the irrigation system was set up, harvesting tomatoes, lettuce, beans, peppers, eggplants, and many more delicious grown goodies, delivering the goods to local restaurants in Queens, Brookyn and NYC, and selling at farmers markets...
now a few months off in the winter but no breaks really as ben and gwen will be building a greenhouse and anastasia and i will be brainstorming on designing some graphic tees and some art related fund raisers for next season so stayed tuned...and come March we'll be starting seedlings in the future to-be-built greenhouse...

my red hook love affair continues...

i have had a love affair with Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn ever since my first visit several years ago (long before Ikea set up shop there!)....it must be that it is right on the water with beautiful views, a few quirky little shops, bars, and restaurants, artist studios, a community farm, remnants of its past seaport life, and the fact that it has not been exploited too much (other than the sugar factory being torn down and ikea being built so far) because no subways go directly there....
Jeff and i rode our bikes there yesterday, during gale force winds!, for an event at the community garden there (pumpkin picking patch, farmers market, and food stands from places like Rice and The Good Fork). We then biked over to the diner Hope and Anchor for more food and some beer and before heading home we stopped by the pier....

brooklyn grange update

it had been awhile since i had been up on the brooklyn grange roof because of work recently and i had been missing it....but this past friday i had time to go....the change of seasons was quite apparent as the time of tomatoes has come mostly to a close while at the same time broccoli, eggplant and fresh lettuce are young, hearty, and growing strong....