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Columbus Day Rooftop Garden Dinner
Perhaps it is climate change, or perhaps the normal vagaries of the weather. But October 11 featured a 76 degree afternoon, and at 5:30 six guests gathered for the final al fresco roof top garden...
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Spring Planting 2011
Having considered the many lessons of our first season, the Battery Rooftop Garden is now implementing its second season planting plan. Among the main things learned in 2010: the richness and depth...
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Beets and Berries for Breakfast
When we eat from the industrial food system, we generally plan our meals in advance, or simply cruise the refrigerator. With roof-top agriculture, one starts each meal with no pre-conceptions about...
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Purple Haze
No friends, not the Jimi Hendrix song, and not the potent variety of Cannabis sativa ssp. sativa. We’re talking carrots here. It is November 4, with one only one more day of daylight savings time...
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Over-winter
This morning I picked some baby kale leaves from the enormous over-wintered kale shrub and some older leaves from the over-wintered sorrel, gave them two stirs in hot oil, and added two fresh eggs....
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Rats on the roof!
No, not the dreaded Rattus rattus or any of its vile kin, but the wonderful Rat’s Tail Radish, or Raphanus caudatus: I have fed the seed pods of this plant, which looks like a cross between a green...
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Dead or Alive?
The sharp blade slices through the skin, flesh and vascular tissues with ease. Pressure in the vascular system collapses. Almost immediately senescence – a genetically regulated process which...
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It’s about time
Mea culpa. Your blogger has no good excuse for his long silence. Here is an update in three parts: fruit, vegetables and horticulture. 1. Fruit Report What a difference a year makes. The...
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We are family
Pop quiz: what do beets, spinach, quinoa and Swiss chard have in common? No, they are not all grown at Battery Rooftop Garden (no quinoa, yet). Yes, they are all delicious, nutritious and ancient...
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Breaking Records
Just before the ground re-froze, we harvested some sweet winter carrots and were rather amazed when this giant emerged from the relatively shallow soils of its rooftop bed: I’ve always been drawn much...
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