Edible NYC: Green it! Grow it! Eat it! @BBG this Saturday

pitu · March 2008

There's a full day of workshops at the Botanic Gardens Saturday . . .
Edible NYC: Green it! Grow it! Eat it!
The 27th Annual Making Brooklyn Bloom
Saturday, March 8, 2008
10:00am - 6:00pm
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave

http://www.bbg.org/vis2/2008/mbb/
for full info and schedule

Workshop Topics:
Extending the Season with Cold Frames
Brewing Compost Tea
Raising Chickens and Bees in the City
Best Vegetables and Fruits for Brooklyn
Brooklyn Compost Project
Urban Soil Health, Testing, and Amendment
Edible Landscaping
Grow it Anywhere in Windowboxes and Containers
Community Composting Systems
Canning to Preserve the Harvest
Integrated Pest Management
Seed Starting and Propagation
Fruit and Nut Trees in the City
Sustainable Watering Practices

Some of these will be held at 11 a.m. and some at 3 p.m.; the schedule will be announced at registration. You will have a chance to choose only two workshops, one from each time block, as long as space permits. We recommend you arrive early to get your first choices.

fruitbat · March 2008

I will be there--I've been looking forward to this for weeks. Yay, BBG!

neene · March 2008

so many choices
compost tea???
Best Vegetables and Fruits for Brooklyn
Integrated Pest Management
Edible Landscaping
Sustainable Watering Practices
Grow it Anywhere in Windowboxes and Containers

what's a girl to do???

pitu · March 2008

Well, that was fun and exhausting. I went to an especially good dirt class...

"Urban Soil Health, Testing, and Amendment ", I mean
and I got an Asian vegetable seed catalog from Oakland.
I love the garden when it's misty . . .

How'd y'all do?

p/s anyone have a copy of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets?
Some guy was talking about oyster mushrooms converting a field f*ked up with diesel, and recommended this author.

shishkab · March 2008

dang that sounds like it was fun! glad you got a lot out of it, pitu. wish i was mobile or i would've been there with bells on...

neene · March 2008

thumbs up for sustainable watering practices
we're putting in a cistern!

i've repotted my basil
have yet to plant the bulbs
didn't get all my composting quesations answered
took some nice snaps
(you'll be seeing them above left)
got totally soaked
should have gone to the seed planting workshop but it had already filled
all in all
great

pitu · March 2008

neene wrote: thumbs up for sustainable watering practices
we're putting in a cistern!

That downspout/pickle barrel thing in the palm room made me wish I'd attended that one. How do you control for mosquitos?
Any particular references they pointed you to for more advice?

neene · March 2008

whatever you use to collect the water must be closed so that it doesn't become a breeding ground for mosquitos

as far as resources, i didn't get any more than what i had found by googling but one of the best ways to learn about it is to go to one of the community gardens that have one and talk to people

it seems pretty straightforward, the thing to be aware of is how much water you might possibly collect and what you will do with the overflow...

a one inch rain fall will give you about 1/2 gallon of water for every square foot of surface area from which you are collecting, i think those pickle barrels hold 50 gallons (you can gang them together).

this is a good link: http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/sustainable/2005sp_rainwater_harvesting.html

sweet tea · March 2008

at the community garden on st marks between underhill and vanderbilt, we have both cisterns and a rooftop water harvesting system.

the cisterns definitely get mosquitos aplenty, despite our best efforts to keep them covered. possibly this would be easier to deal with in a situation where only one or two people were using them.

the rooftop system -- while obviously ambitious for a home garden -- is teh hotness. come by during open hours (wednesday afternoons, friday evenings, and some times on both weekend days; beginning april 15th) and check it out! (or, if you want, you could pm me and i'll meet you there.)

pitu · March 2008

sweet tea wrote: at the community garden on st marks between underhill and vanderbilt, we have both cisterns and a rooftop water harvesting system.

the cisterns definitely get mosquitos aplenty, despite our best efforts to keep them covered. possibly this would be easier to deal with in a situation where only one or two people were using them.

the rooftop system -- while obviously ambitious for a home garden -- is teh hotness. come by during open hours (wednesday afternoons, friday evenings, and some times on both weekend days; beginning april 15th) and check it out! (or, if you want, you could pm me and i'll meet you there.)

thx, I may take you up on that

although I'm looking into a green roof to drink the water. Sustainable South Bronx has a company that is installing and maintaining green roofs, which is 100% awesome as both a green jobs program and an environmental thing.

At the urban dirt class I went to, the BBG guy pointed out the book they use to teach the master class at the garden (which they don't have at the BPL, I checked - but I bet they have it at the lovely BBG lending library.) He recommended some websites for soil testing etc.

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