Closing Bell: Subway Garden Changes Crop
During the summer, a garden popped up outside of Smith and Bergen subway station. Back then, it was growing corn. (By the way, does anyone know where the corn went after it grew?) Now the new crop is a freshly seeded winter rye which looks like it’s growing well. Wonder if the rye will just…
During the summer, a garden popped up outside of Smith and Bergen subway station. Back then, it was growing corn. (By the way, does anyone know where the corn went after it grew?) Now the new crop is a freshly seeded winter rye which looks like it’s growing well. Wonder if the rye will just be used as a cover crop for the season, or if it’ll get outsourced to any local bakeries.
The corn didn’t die. We took away most of it intact and healthy. Form there it went down our throats and out our cornholes.
“am i the only one who would be chary eating something grown on a busy city curb!?!”
Probably. Many great agricultural products are grown in cities. The city of Vienna even has its own appellation. Chateau Haut Brion has their vineyards smack in the middle of suburban sprawl. Have you ever been to Europe? I’d hardly call the Bordelais aristocracy and Viennese elites a bunch of hipsters. But keep living in a fantasy world. All your food comes Charlotte’s Web.
(This thread is just too corny for me to post)
The corn crop was sold at a charity auction at Sotheby’s:
http://nyti.ms/9siUXn
And you can read more about this fun project here:
http://brooklynmaize.org/
and here:
http://brooklynmaizefield.blogspot.com/
“performance corn”
lol so funny on SO many levels
*rob*
It’s not edible. It’s performance corn.
Hahahahahahahaahahahahahaahahaha.
The corn died. It was artsy hipster corn anyway.
am i the only one who would be chary eating something grown on a busy city curb!?! who knows what psychos could have injected into the soil, not to mention all the exhaust.. ?
*rob*