Tag Archives: Urban Gardening
Dodge Green Roof Garden: It’s a cucumber bonanza! Plus, an easy pepper frittata recipe
July 20, 2014It’s peak cucumber season here at the Dodge Green Roof Garden. It seems like yesterday we planted the cucumber seedlings in our bins. We watched their vines creep to fill our containers so bountifully we had to erect a trellis … Continue reading
Watching Our Garden Grow
March 23, 2011It’s snowing in New Jersey today, but that’s not keeping us from thinking about and looking forward to another season with our rooftop garden. We’ve got a new item to add to our garden wishlist: What’s that, you ask? A … Continue reading
Adventures in Composting
January 10, 2011At Dodge, we have a staff “Green Team” which meets monthly to discuss and improve our green practices. We focus on a variety of areas, including how to green our Poetry Festival, how to choose office supplies, what we can … Continue reading
Growing a Community in Morristown
July 7, 2010Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate You can probably see that there’s lettuce in the photo above. And perhaps you recognize the kohlrabi on the left, too. In fact, there are 76 pounds of lettuce, spinach, kohlrabi and radishes there – … Continue reading
Getting Our Hands Dirty
April 13, 2010Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate We’re only weeks away from getting our hands in the dirt and planting our rooftop garden—we’ve already cleaned it up and have starter plants of lettuces, dill and radishes in our kitchen. We’re also working … Continue reading
The Green Roof: A Year in Pictures
November 11, 2009Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate Tomorrow we’re cleaning up (composting!) the remnants of our garden, and we’ll be talking as a group about the lessons we learned from our first year of urban gardening as well as planning for what … Continue reading
Have Farm, Will Travel
September 28, 2009Michelle Knapik, Program Director The highly successful, model urban farm owned and operated by Lorraine Gibbons of Garden State Urban Farms (formerly Brick City Urban Farms) at the corner of Washington and Spruce Streets in Newark is in search of … Continue reading
Greenwashing, Green ‘Burbs and Our Garden
July 2, 2009Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate Try this on for size: according to a recent article in the Guardian, “More than 98% of supposedly natural and environmentally friendly products on US supermarket shelves are making potentially false or misleading claims.” Hm. … Continue reading
Blogging the Green Roof Garden
June 3, 2009Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate Here’s an extra-curricular project we’re excited about at Dodge: our rooftop garden. We planted our containers two weeks ago. We filled them with herbs (sage, rosemary, dill, parsley, cilantro, basil), flowers (zinnias, dahlias, sunflowers), strawberries, … Continue reading
Guest Post: Laura Aden
November 11, 2008Although it had been 12 years since she visited the city of Paterson, Arts Program Director Laura Aden quickly found out this summer how green it has become, thanks to the tireless efforts of City Green. This is the fourth … Continue reading
