We are busy on the roof at the Bushwick Starr this week getting ready for Bushwack and Buswick Open Studios! The Bushwhack Series is a performance festival devoted to the development of new work within the neighborhood of Bushwick. Performances are Thursday – Sunday at 8 pm. Also, Bushwick Open Studios is Saturday and Sunday [...]
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The Child Development Support Corporation will be proudly harvesting the first heads of lettuce at 1 pm on Tuesday, May 24th. It’s so exciting that after many months of planning, construction and getting all the last minute glitches worked out, that all of the hard work put in by our crew, [...] Time lapse of the Bushwick Starr rooftop farm contstruction Construction is well under way on the roof at Bushwick Starr. The first systems will go online this week in time for the Big Green Theater Event Friday, April 22nd and Saturday, April 23rd. We will be at BGT Benefit Event on Saturday to commemorate [...]
This is a really exciting time for the farm! This past Sunday we had our first meeting on the roof at Bushwick Starr. The temps were too low to do any physical work, but our minds were working in overdrive, coming up with a lot of great plans for this summer’s rooftop farm. [...] We’re excited to announce our new grow room at the Child Development Support Corporation in Bed-Stuy. CDSC has asked us to design and install a 250 square foot grow room designed to supply their food pantry with fresh produce year-round. We’re excited for our first Bed-Stuy partnership, and look forward to expanding to other neighborhoods [...] Last week, Boswyck Farms was featured in a video segment on the Huffington Post for our work with Fountain House. You can learn more about Fountain House as an organization, see Lee in action, and get a glimpse of the system that we’ve been building and teaching the Fountain House residents to maintain. This has been [...] September 20, 2010 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 [...] September 16, 2010 Lee and I manned the tables at this past Sunday’s Farm City Fair put on by the Brooklyn Food Coalition and sponsored by a variety of Brooklyn businesses including Brooklyn Brewery (although I didn’t get to partake in a beer). Even though it was rainy the street was jumping with local food [...] September 4, 2010 The title pretty much says it all so I’ll start off this report with the obvious: our last sunflower has died. I’m sort of sad as I love sunflowers. At least we’ve learned that 2 giant sunflowers in one pot on a very hot roof = a bad ending. On to happy [...] August 23, 2010 By Joanna Who doesn’t love a good radish? (Actually I don’t but that’s a whole other story.) We’ve had our first radish harvest! Some are sweet, some pungent and some right in the middle. Planted a little over a month ago, they grew up to be quite healthy and happy in our flood & [...] |
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