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Boswyck Farms Makes an Appearance on NY1!

sara — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:35:36 +0000

Boswyck Farms is proud to be a part of an ongoing project with United Cerebral Palsy. Check out our recent cameo on NY1, where you can see our Operational Hydroponicist Alex Middleton giving a lecture on the basics of hydroponics, and part of our hydroponic set up at the facility.

Watch the 2 minutes clip from NY1 here.

In Brooklyn, It’s Mad Easy Being Green

meghan — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:36:17 +0000

Stephanie Berzon from the Brooklyn Food Coalition stopped by in May to check out the farm and interview Lee for the blog, “It’s Mad Easy Being Green”. She wrote a great piece about our farm, that you can check out here. This is a wonderful blog that follows the green movement in Brooklyn and the greater NYC region. She covers a lot of the urban farms that are popping up in the region and various local foods related news that’s happening. We love getting visitors to the farm and are fortunate that there are so many bloggers, journalists, filmmakers, and the likes, that are interested in what we are doing! Thank you Stephanie for stopping by! We highly suggest that after reading our article, you check out the rest of her blog because there is a lot happening with the greening of our neighborhoods and she does a fantastic job of covering it!

Brooklyn Spaces!

meghan — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:33:44 +0000

Brooklyn Spaces recently stopped by the farm to interview Lee and learn more about our operation. Brooklyn Spaces is a fantastic blog that documents interesting spaces around the borough and contacted us to do a piece a few weeks ago. Thank you Oriana for the wonderful write up! Click here to read the article and add Brooklyn Spaces to your RSS Feed as Oriana posts some great pieces about other fascinating spots around Brooklyn.

Also, than you to everyone who stopped by the Bushwick Starr for Bushwick Open Studios this weekend. Though the “L” train was not running this weekend, we still had quite a few folks stop by and check out our rooftop farm. We met some great people and luckily, the weather was beautiful and cooperated nicely, despite being sandwiched between to scorching weeks. The plants are growing quickly on these hot days and we will be posting pictures soon!

Check out our recent interview on CUNY-TV!

meghan — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:28:37 +0000

The folks from CUNY-TV stopped by recently to check out the system we built with the CDSC and see what we are all about. Check out the article.

Hydroponic Farm from CUNY J-School Broadcast on Vimeo.



We’re on Lunch NYC!
Joanna — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:27:16 +0000
October 7, 2010

By Joanna
We’ve been featured on Lunch NYC’s premier episode.
Our segment starts around the 6 minute mark.




Maker Faire–it simply ruled the weekend
Joanna — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:53:54 +0000
September 28, 2010

By Joanna
I’m finally regaining feeling in my legs after working our booth at Maker Faire New York. It was fairly amazing. We met a ton of people, made many, many soda bottle planters (which meant standing many hours) and had a great time showing our NFT, drip and aeroponic systems. I’m bummed I didn’t have time to see all the other cool stuff but on the other hand, I’m happy we were so busy. Our booth location meant we had front row seats for the Chariot Races so I can’t complain tooooo much. 
If you made a soda bottle planter and want to enter our “May the Best Bottle Win!” challenge, submit a picture of your fabulously decorated planter to our public Flicker group, Boswyck Farms Soda Bottle Challenge. The winner gets a free Getting Started With Hydroponics workshop! 
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P.S. Our Kickstarter campaign is still going! Donate if you can! Thanks!!



This past weekend event: Taste the West Village
Joanna — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:23:05 +0000
September 20, 2010

By Joanna
Yesterday P.S. 41 hosted Taste the West Village. The event was a fundraiser for their green rooftop project. We took part in their “Living Classroom.”
It was a gorgeous day and lots of people came out to eat, drink and be merry. Chloë and I were absolutely in love with a corn dish from Market Table. Lots of other local restaurants, farms and bands joined in on the festivities. Free booze was on hand but we, ever the professionals, didn’t partake. What we did was talk about our various systems. The soda bottle workshop was a little different. Rather than using our usual 2-liter guys, Vicky, the events organizer, arranged for us use bottles from Ito En Tea, one of the sponsors. 
Thanks to everyone who stopped by and chatted with us. We’ll be at Maker Faire this coming weekend!
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Bushwick Open Studios a Resounding Success
Joanna — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:21:57 +0000
June 7, 2010
Bushwick Open Studios was this past weekend. Hot and humid as it was we threw open the doors to the farm, inviting people in to see our seven different hydroponic systems. Those who came got to eat a little of our arugula, watercress and lettuce, not to mention Lee’s homemade and perfectly salted popcorn. (Our peppers and tomatoes were not quite ripe enough to sample but should be there momentairly so make arrangements to visit if you want a taste.) The recently planted strawberries have taken to their new vertical system and we were happy so many people admired how pretty they looked. Several people made hydroponic planters out of recycled soda bottles, seeded them with the basil of their choice and took them home to start a windowsill garden. 
A tip of our hat to the peeps over at Arts in Bushwick for organizing another fabulous event. We’re looking forward to next year’s open studios! 



WCBS swings by for a visit
Joanna — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:47:32 +0000
June 2, 2010
We had another great visit from a local news outlet. This time WCBS stopped by the farm to check out what we’re growing. They also took a visit to our rooftop installation over at The Bushwick Starr (which is coming along quite nicely despite the secret lettuce nibblers). Many thanks to Mary for the interview. Click here to watch. 
P.S. We’ve just updated our photo gallery.



Woot! We’re on CNN
Joanna — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:02:57 +0000
May 22, 2010
We think it proper to give ourselves a big pat on the back.  In fact, we’re giving ourselves the World of Warcraft leveling “woot” because we’re part of CNN’s story on hydroponic farming.
The CNN crew took great footage of what’s happening at Boswyck Farms (the latest pictures can be seen in our gallery), on our rooftop installation at the Bushwick Starr, and of Lee, the self-named spice wimp, sampling a homegrown hot pepper. Check out the video–we’re the third segment in the story.

A tip of our hat to Britta Riley over at Window Farms who pointed CNN in our direction. Thank you!