Tag: Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
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Winter already?
Tricks and treats as an early snow blankets the farm on Halloween eve. Outside, a last harvest of peppers; inside, making marigold bracelets.
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Ice cream social
Amid rows of tomatoes and cukes ripe for the picking, the farm holds an ice cream social and a hands-on demo making strawberry-basil ice cream (with some freshly harvested honey, too!).
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Carrots and more
New bike racks to welcome visitors, cukes and peppers blossoming, and fat carrots are ready for the picking at the farm. The perfect excuse to make roasted carrot and red lentil ragout.
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Seedstock!
Farm friends pitch in to raise funds for Growing Chefs and the Open Space Institute at Seedstock at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm. Cold beers, cool rooftop breezes, good food and great music for a Saturday night.
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Beeseyeview
Checking in on Rooftop Farm’s resident bees with Brooklyn Honey and experimenting with Photosynth panoramic photography. Click for larger views.
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Back to the farm
Planting radishes, cleaning apiaries of old honeycomb and rebuilding beds on a blustery spring Sunday at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm.
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Rooftop Farm photos for sale
These are a few of my favorite images from A Year At Eagle Street Rooftop Farm. Framed 11×14 and 5×7 prints available for $150 and $25, respectively. Other prints also available. Contact Scott at hutchense (at) gmail for more information. Now available: A Year At Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, the photo book (click here to order).
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Giving thanks
The farm opens for one last market before Thanksgiving. With the season over, the chickens have gone to winter homes. But the kale is still growing, and there are still carrots and peppers to be had. Time for one last market and a pause to give thanks for a productive year.
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Halloween at the farm
The last Sunday of the month, and the last open farm of the season save for right before Thanksgiving. The gang dress as the women of Jules Breton’s The Recall of the Gleaners for photographer Felicia Wong, then get down to work harvesting late-season veggies.
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Winding down
As the farming season winds down, late-season crops like carrots, peppers and herbs are harvested and beds prepped for winter. In the afternoon, the folks from Rockaway Taco drop by for food and fun.
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Bees in autumn
Clearing out more beds to prep them for winter and shoring up soil. Later, Sam of Anarchy Apiaries talks about beekeeping with Meg of Brooklyn Honey.
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Fall at the farm
The arrival of fall brings cool, windy skies. Plants get pulled as thatch and rasdish seeds are sown for winter groundcover. The bunnies enjoy a rare day al fresco, and Annie leads a workshop on planting winter cover.
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Greenpoint Open Studios
Ducking in and out of places and spaces in the neighborhood on the Greenpoint Open Studios Tour. Thanks to the following artists for allowing me to photograph their work… Typewriter: Michael Alan. Glasswork: Sol Kjok. Rubber bands chair: Romy Scheroder. Letterpress: Golden Rectangle Press. Nightime, wandering amid Bring To Light.
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Families and the farm
Neighbors drop by to visit the chickens, while volunteers prep more beds for winter. Signs of early autumn appear as plants give up their final yields, but the farm isn’t finished growing and giving yet.
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Pickled in Greenpoint
Bob McClure from McClure’s Pickles visits the farm for a sunset workshop on making refrigerator pickles.
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Mid-September harvest
A mild late-summer Sunday at the farm, harvesting veggies and planting winter ground cover, plus a visit from the Farm City folks.
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