Gardening

New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show: Beauty in the Bronx

Though snow continues to fall across the city, spring has finally arrived at the Bronx's New York Botanical Garden, where the conservatory's annual Orchid Show is currently in full bloom. To celebrate, we rode the train uptown, took off our jackets, and spoke with Marc Hachadourian, the manager of t ... More >>

Vegetable Literacy Author Deborah Madison Loved Vegetables Before It Was Cool

Deborah Madison lives in Galisteo, a tiny adobe village just south of Santa Fe. It was in her backyard there -- an eighth of an acre of beds raised above New Mexico's clay soil -- that she noticed the similarities among vegetable blossoms and fell into studying botany. Years before we collectively ... More >>

Edible Garden On Top Of North Square Restaurant

Talk about an extensive herb garden. Located on top of North Square Restaurant in the Washington Square Hotel, Jake's Edible Garden is an herb garden that has just sprouted and will be providing all the herbs for executive chef Yoel Cruz's dishes. The herbs, chilies, and tomatoes come from Oak Gro ... More >>

Moscow 57 Brings A Taste of Russia To East Harlem

A greenhouse-turned-lounge, tucked under the Metro-North Railroad, sounds like a strange location for a night out on the town, but that's exactly what lures visitors to Moscow 57.Part of a weekly summer pop-up event series, Moscow 57 is the brainchild of Ellen Kaye. If she sounds familiar, it's beca ... More >>

Moscow 57: Has Russia Come to East Harlem?

A greenhouse-turned-lounge, tucked under the Metro-North Railroad, sounds like a strange location for a night out on the town, but that's exactly what lures visitors to Moscow 57.Part of a weekly summer pop-up event series, Moscow 57 is the brainchild of Ellen Kaye. If she sounds familiar, it's ... More >>

Gardening Art Grows into Activism in the Age of Occupy

How green was my alley

THE BRONX GIVERNY

Walk in Monet's French garden

I Saw J. Edgar And I Have The Gay Details!

​SPOILER ALERT! I liked J. Edgar, the Clint Eastwood directed flick, written by Dustin Lance Black, about controversial crime fighter J. Edgar Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

The NRA (That's National Restaurant Association) Spends $843K On Lobbying; Anna Wintour Still Pissed About Miss Lily's

​Doug Zell, the founder of Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, has teamed up with his old frat buddy, the philanthropist and former real estate developer Robert Buono. Now the two will share the title of Co-C.E.O. in an effort to expand the business. [Diner's Journal] No New York chefs will compet ... More >>

Snooki Loves Bush: Jersey Shore Star Still Going Strong

Just when you thought Snooki couldn't get any more crazy comes this video of the drunk Jersey Shore character dancing with a potted plant. What will she think of next? [via TMZ]

Macy's 37th Annual Flower Show: Fake Daisies and Dogs in Floral Snuggies

Heather Holland via The Lush Side​It's a good thing the wall of daisies was artificial, since the near-freezing wind that swept through Herald Square would have made short work of any exposed bloom at Macy's annual Flower Show on Sunday. Still, midtown tourists and shoppers took little notice ... More >>

Apple Cove Bears Little Fruit

The Women's Project stages a busy satire

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

Pot Farm Under Neighburrito Had 'Nothing to do With' Neighburrito

Eating in Translation/Flickr​This morning brought one of the more amusing bits of news we'd heard in awhile: last night a pot farm was reportedly discovered in the basement underneath Neighburrito, the tiny take-out shop at 127 Rivington Street.

Free Will Astrology: June 23-29, 2010

Q&A: Earth Day Art Exhibit Commemorates Demolished NYC Gardens

​In honor of Earth Day, we wanted to tell you a story about a garden -- The Magic Garden -- that's going to be torn down to make room for a high-rise housing development. Oliver Rios, an East Harlem-bred artist, grew up around gardening when his mother Lydia Roman began transforming abandone ... More >>

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Study Finds Local Native Plants Face Extinction

Bittersweet at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens​A 20-year study of plant life in a fifty mile radius of New York City by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens has found that more than 50 plant species native to the region face extinction under pressure from decreasing undeveloped land and the spread of non ... More >>

HEAVENLY DELIGHT

Radiohole stages Whatever, Heaven Allows

The Provincetown Playhouse Meets the Ontological in The Verge

Vesuvio Bakery to be Recycled Into New Birdbath

Tjeerd/flickr​Good news for anyone worried that the old Vesuvio Bakery would be turned into a dog boutique or Subway franchise: New York reports that the Prince Street space will instead become the third location of Birdbath, the eco-friendly bakery run by City Bakery founder Maury Rubin. The 89-y ... More >>

Why Garden? Because Dirt Is the New Prozac.

woodleywonderworks/flickr​The Huffington Post has an interesting piece on how getting down and dirty with nature in, for example, a vegetable garden can keep us emotionally healthy. The microbes in dirt, apparently, affect the same neurons that are stimulated by Prozac. A British study from a ... More >>

Get Ready for Puerto Rico's The Taco Maker; You May Not Recognize Sam Sifton After All

​The Organic Center in Boulder is refuting claims made by a widely covered British study that found organic foods are not more nutritious than conventional. The Organic Center's own 2008 report showed that "organic foods were, on average, 25 percent higher" in nutrients. [BizJournals] Just as ... More >>

L.A. to Take a Dip in Birdbath

Eater L.A. reports that Maury Rubin, owner of City Bakery and Birdbath, will open another Birdbath branch in West Hollywood later this year. Rubin, who recently closed the L.A. outpost of City Bakery, reportedly plans to open two to three outposts of Birdbath, his so-called "neighborhood green baker ... More >>

The Botanical Gardens Get Foodie & "What's Up with These Dumb, Pornographic Fast Food Ads?"

The New York Botanical Garden is embracing the fresh food movement this summer with its new Edible Garden program, which will feature such temporary exhibitions as "Tropical Fruits, Roots and Shoots." Martha Stewart helped the Botanical Garden revamp its herb garden, which now includes a variety of ... More >>

'Skirl Party VI'

GARDEN STATE

Martha Stewart, look out!

Foraging For Free Food--Garlic Chives in Prospect Park

Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

Herb May Heal, But is Blocked; Times Blames Stoned Kids

Class Action Listings for Fall 2008

Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson's Brief Documentary A Man Named Pearl

Lez Get Together, Yeah-Yeah-Yeah!

Valentine's Day is Only for Lovers at Prune

Shear Madness

Lopping off your plants while speaking Spanish: They’re coming, NY!

Positively 27th Street

Carving out a home for good nature in Chelsea

Paradise Lost

When the High Line above Manhattan's West Side turns into a park, a secret world will disappear

The Rose and the Thorn

Nodding Out in the East Village

Rudy Deflowers New York

Across the City, Communities Fight the Mayor's Garden Auction

The Endangered Garden

AvalonBay makes concessions, but will Liz Christy's trees and plants survive?

Horoscope

Close-Up On: Sunnyside

War of the Gardeners

Bugging Out Over Green Spaces

Two-Story 1800s Wooden Back House

War of the Roses

Garden Vote Could Settle Perennial Problem

Another Country, Not Her Own

The Coqui vs. the Bulldozer

7th St. Gardeners Plan Amphibious Attack

Rudy Deflowers New York

Across the City, Communities Fight the Mayor's Garden Auction

Spring Catalogue

Plots thicken as gardens head for auction block

Garden Variety

Rich and Strange

Three Women Ignite Asian Traditions

Uprooted

The City Yanks More Gardens Out of Harlem