Radish (Raphanus) family: Brassicales

Radish (Raphanus) family: Brassicales

Syed Arif Mumtaz, our farm manager (assistance by Chris Thompson), pulls off radish sprout cover. By Marisa DeDominicis Why Radish? Every spring since I came to NYC, I have planted radishes in several community gardens including Sunnyside Community Garden (bulldozed...
May 2015: Frederick Phillips

May 2015: Frederick Phillips

Frederick Phillips is Barbados-born, which is a place where life is, largely lived out-of-doors. There were plants and trees in his front yard, back yard and on both sides of his home, and Frederick and his siblings climbed and reaped fruits from most of them. After...
May 2015: Earth Matter Developments

May 2015: Earth Matter Developments

Photo: Solar platform team places the beams in place By Wylie Goodman It was still 35 degrees outside in late March when a dedicated group of nearly 10 volunteers began the tough work of hammering, sawing, leveling, and raising a 12′ x 14′ frame into the...