Welcome to our adventures in urban farming in NYC! What began as an experiment with growing a few veggies in the Bronx has become a great success for our Bridge clients and community. This is an online record of our experiences on the farm, written by Stacey Van Rossum, with photos taken by Natalie Brickajlik, the Coordinator of our Horticulture Program. Thanks to funding from Burpee and The United Way of New York, our program was made possible!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Planting & we get blueberry bushes
(Our hose)
(Tara inspecting a plant)
(The hills in bed # 3)
(The cucumber trellis)
(Growing red cabbage, spinach and green cabbage)
On Friday we planted yellow beefsteak tomatoes, pepper seedlings, marigold, cucumbers, Swiss chard, yellow squash, black zucchini and bell peppers. We also started tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers as seedlings. I volunteered at a Bronx Green Up event on Saturday at Franklin Memorial Garden at 1062 Cauldwell Ave. in the Bronx. They distributed various native plants to the volunteers and I was able to get two low bush blueberry bushes that we will plant near our magnolia tree and two lavender plants.
-Stace Van Rossum
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