All Blog Posts Tagged 'urban_gardening' (4)

COVER CAP Maya Donelson tends the rooftop garden of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.



By MARIAN BURROS

Published New York Times: June 16, 2009



THIS summer, Tony Tomelden hopes to be making bloody marys at the Pug in Washington, D.C., with tomatoes and chilies grown above the bar, thanks to the city’s incentives for green roofs.



Mr. Tomelden, the Pug’s principal owner, says he’s planting a garden to take… Continue

POTPOURRI Mr. Rushing’s make-do credo manifests itself in assorted ways. Clockwise from top left: his “container garden on wheels,” his grassless front yard and the eclectic entranceway obscuring his cottage.

By STEVEN KURUTZ

Published: New York Times, March 25, 2009



Jackson, Miss.

ON a warm afternoon in March, Felder Rushing, a horticulturist and host of “The Gestalt Gardener,” a weekly show on Mississippi Public…

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Three D.C. Women Take a Three-Month Bike Trip to Montreal to Document Community Agriculture Efforts

By Adrian Higgins

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, July 24, 2008; Page H01



Where do gardening, small-scale agriculture and the future of planet Earth converge? For three Washington women, it's on a road less traveled, on byways unseen from the gotta-get-there, high-speed chaos of the interstate.



It has… Continue

Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden?



That is where Trevor Paque comes in. For a fee, Mr. Paque, who lives in San Francisco, will build an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and even harvest the bounty, gently placing a box of vegetables on the back porch when he leaves.



Call them the lazy locavores — city dwellers who insist on eating… Continue