Home Grown in Brooklyn
This urban garden is doing more than just growing vegetables and herbs. Some local Brooklyn folks have banded together to collect street leaves, diverting them from landfills and converting them to “good fertile soil.” They turned an empty lot, destined for new condos, into a community garden, for veggies and flowers, even combating Guiliani to keep the land. Isn’t this what needs to happen in cities all around the world? Wouldn’t it be nice to have your vegetable and fruit and flower source just around the corner, and grown by you and your neighbors? I spent a week this past summer living just around the corner from this garden. I can attest to its beauty and openness. I admired it every morning as I went on my run or to get a morning coffee or headed to brunch. I found a terrific eco-friendly nail salon on Vanderbilt Avenue, Wink Eco Beauty Bar, as well as a delicious French bistro for brunch and huge cups of café au lait, Le Gamin Café. These places and the garden made me feel like this was a neighborhood to savor and call home.
