Late Post for Garden 2014
Garden 2014 began in April with some new ideas and some new goals for this season. Our goal this year is to provide food for our kitchen at our main headquarters on 108 St. in Manhattan. Also, we...
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2014 Pictures
Here are some pictures from 2014. (Mervon and Johnny working) (Natalie and Goldman Sachs workers)...
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We continue to work at both locations and are beginning to upload pictures from early in the season with some recent pictures. On 7/21 at E. 111 St. we harvested: Dinosaur Kale- 1 1/2 lbs Red Russian...
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2014 Pictures
(Team with Goldman Sachs workers building raised beds) (Lunch with Goldman Sachs workers)...
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(Greenhouse with early garden pic) (The team at work) (Greenhouse with mid...
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(Greenhouse with mid summer garden pic) (Bee eating a sunflower) (Kale)...
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We continue to work at both gardens. We are weeding and watering daily to keep the gardens productive. We cleaned out the greenhouse and sprayed a fish and kelp fertilizer on the base and root of all...
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We continue to maintain the farms by weeding, watering, planting and harvesting. Worker Johnny Blackmon was nominated for Tenant of the Year 2014. We are all so proud of him. Johnny is hard working and...
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We continue to work at both gardens and have been planting new seeds in places once inhabited by other plants. The kitchen staff at 108 St. visited E 111 St. a few weeks ago. We continue to bring our...
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Hey! My name is Maria! I'm a volunteer with the Bridge's Horticulture program and I've taken over the blog. May 22 was my first day, and unfortunately, it was raining pretty hard today in Harlem, but...
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May 31, 2017
We were lucky today that the rain stayed away while we were in the garden. But it had rained overnight, so the snails and slugs were out in force. We started the day by taking stock of how everything...
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June 5, 2017
All the rain has done the garden in Harlem lots of good. The salad greens, sunflowers and peas grew a lot in two weeks. However, we also discovered a serve aphid problem on the side of the building –...
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June 7, 2017
Today was another short day, but we still managed to get a lot done at Morris Avenue. There was lots of weeding to be done, and we planted some peppers and separated some tomato plants that were...
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June 12, 2017
Today was the hottest day yet in the garden — over 90F! But that didn’t keep us from getting to work. We took stock of what changed in the garden since last week, including the fact that the peach tree...
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June 14, 2017
At Morris today we had to tend to the tomatoes. With over 40 tomato plants, there is a lot of work to do. A few of the plants had what look like aphids, so we had to go over every plant and rub away...
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June 19, 2017
It was another busy day in the garden at 111. At 111, there are a few really lovely rose bushes growing along the back wall. However, they have gotten pretty big and are bending over because they have...
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June 21, 2017
We were busy at Morris today! We harvested kale, oak leaf lettuce, oregano, mizuna - an Asian mustard green - oregano and chamomile. The other big task was tending to the tomatoes. They are starting to...
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July 24, 2017
Today was all about peaches. It was really rainy out, so we weren't able to get a lot done in the garden, but we still managed to harvest some malibar spinach and 18 lbs of peaches! Next week we might...
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August 14, 2017
Today was a busy day at 111. Since we weren't in the garden last week there was lots to take care of. We harvested cucumbers, zucchini, malibar spinach, mustard greens and our first tomato. We also...
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July 26, 2017
The tomato horn worm hunt continued today in Morris. There was some damage on a few tomato plants, but even with the bounty of one ice cream per horn worm found, we didn't find any worms on the tomato...
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August 7, 2017
So. Much. Rain. Unfortunately it started raining on Monday morning and didn't really let up. But we hadn't been to Morris is a while, so there was so work that had to get done, rain or shine. There was...
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August 9, 2017
FIELD TRIP! Today we had a horticulture field trip. We got to go on a tour of the Javits Center's green roof. It is the largest green roof in New York City and the second largest green roof in the U.S....
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August 16, 2017
It was another busy day at Morris. We harvested lots of cucumbers and cherry tomatoes, as well as kale, mint, peppers malibar spinach and mizuna. We also started preparing for the fall planting we are...
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Oct. 18, 2017
We had a rather fruitful harvest at Morris, despite it being so late in the season. There were lots of cherry tomatoes and the malibar is still doing well. We also picked a few eggplants for the first...
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