On June 10th, 2011, LONDON SOUTHBANK CENTRE ROOF GARDENS…
…newly installed on top of Queen Elizabeth Hall, in partnership with the Eden Project in Cornwall, is what I am admiring out the window on this alternately warm…
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On June 9th, 2011, EDIBLE ESTATE #4: LONDON…
…is what I am always most keen to visit whenever I find myself back in town, and this morning on my way to meetings at the Hayward Gallery…
On June 3rd, A ROOFTOP SUNSET DINNER PARTY…
…last night, just after an errant storm passed over delivering a bit of cooling rain, was enjoyed on long rooftop garden-side peony-centered table set in the colorful vintage…
On May 28th, 2011, ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN NEWS…
…includes reports on recently planted loquat seeds; sad bean plants that are still refusing to climb up the bamboo wigwam structure that was made for them months ago;…
On May 22nd, 2011, THE STRAWBERRY REPORT…
…brings good news of the most regular and welcome daily fruiting arrivals in my Roman rooftop garden these days – with always a few to be found hiding…
On May 19th, 2011, HIDDEN VILLA MEDICI GARDEN…
…of statuary is something I happened upon for the first time this afternoon as the sun was low while visiting a French friend in residence at the famous…
On May 18th, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEW #10…
…this afternoon was with the amazing urban farmer Matteo Amati who presides over an enormous tract of city land where unemployed youth are put to work on the cultivation of…
On May 13th, 2011, THE PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY GARDEN…
…hosted an Open Engagement conference lunch event today as the father of one of the students wheeled his mobile wood burning pizza oven into the center of the…
On May 6th, 2011, THE CONSERVATORY AT THE MINNEAPOLIS SCULPTURE GARDEN…
…is one of my happiest coziest familiar feel-at-home-kind-of places in the city, which provides a warm green escape in the depths of Minnesota winter and an early glimpse…
On May 5th, 2011, BUNNIES!…
…are chasing each other around Minneapolis front yards reminding me of similar scenes from my childhood here – as I watch them publicly frolicking this afternoon, daring the earnest…
On May 3rd, 2011, BACK AT SUNDOWN…
…my home in LA for the first time in ten months, is bringing on welcome homey feelings – but the big shock is all of the growth I…
On April 29th, 2011, SPRING PLANTINGS IN THE ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…
…including little tomato starts, bean seeds, eggplants, basil, squash, corn, and other future pleasures of the summer finally went in the rooftop dirt this week after much delay…
On April 24th, 2011, GARDENS OF NINFA…
…is what now occupies the small Roman village which was sacked and abandoned to malaria in the Middle Ages just off Via Appia Antica south of Rome –…
On April 11th, 2011, PEA, FAVA & WORM POOP HARVEST…
…is the breaking news from the Roman rooftop garden this morning – having never grown the favas, I’ve waited until they are as big as those I’ve been…
On April 8th, 2011, SALT BEYOGLU OPENS WITH ISTANBUL ROOFTOP HOTHOUSE…
…ready to welcome those who make it to the top floor for a respite of light and space with the aroma of wood shavings and fresh compost, a…
On April 7th, 2011, ISTANBUL HOTHOUSE PLANTING…
…was a gradual process today as heavy bags of fresh Turkish forest soil, compost, worm castings, and wood shavings (to loosen and lighten the soil) slowly made their…
On April 6th, 2011, SPECIAL TURKISH FARMER SEEDS…
…including lots of beans, corn, lettuce, squash, some rare precious tomatoes, and a variety of fruiting trees and vegetables starts have arrived from a friendly farmer couple who…
On March 31st, 2011, ISTANBUL ROOFTOP HOTHOUSE…
…is the next edition in the series of Edible Estates gardens which I have come here to begin work on (housed in a spacious airy new greenhouse on…
On March 26th, 2011, ROMAN ROOFTOP HOMESTEAD GARDEN UPDATE…
…today includes happy news about the reals stars of the show at the moment, the bursting crop of fava beans (which I saw all over Praiano this week)…
On March 23rd, 2011, ‘BELLE VERDURE’…
…or ‘beautiful vegetables’ is the apt nick-name of the local Praiano personaggio, or character, who grows his own food in perfectly composed and tended gardens, enclosed by beautifully…