Plants & Gardens Blog

This spring weed is known for its tasty leaves, but it's most interesting feature may be the way it disperses seeds by flinging them through the air. Read › Weed of the Month: Hairy Bittercress

Across the borough, gardeners enthusiastically embraced a restructuring of the contest and managed to turn a social distancing strategy into a way to connect with neighbors. Read › Brooklyn’s Beloved Window Boxes

Flatbush Avenue will be a leafier, shadier place for years to come thanks to a collaboration between Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the NYC Parks. Read › New Trees Along Flatbush Avenue

Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be planting dozens of trees donated by the city along Flatbush Avenue in the coming weeks. Read › More Trees On the Way to Flatbush Avenue

Starting heirloom fruits and vegetables from seed saves money, promotes biodiversity, and safeguards our cultural legacies. Join Owen Taylor, seed farmer and founder of Truelove Seeds, to learn tricks of the trade for starting your own. Read › Seed Starting: Preserving Our Cultures (Video)

Christopher Bolden-Newsome, farmer and codirector of the Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia, presents the Wilbur A. Levin Keynote Address at Making Brooklyn Bloom 2021. Read › She Hid Seeds in Her Hair: The Power of Ancestral African Foods (Video)

Two trailblazers in the field of urban greening, Karen Washington, urban gardening advocate and founding farmer of Rise & Root Farm, and Adrian Benepe, BBG president and CEO, assess where we are and where gardeners and gardening can take us. Read › Power to Heal (Video)

Kimberly Curtis leads us on a journey across continents, linking garden to kitchen while focusing on the properties and stories of three important healing plants indigenous to Africa: moringa, castor, and hibiscus. Read › Plant Journeys through the African Diaspora (Video)

The pandemic shifted our perspective regarding our homes and forced us to take a look at what we personally need to thrive. Many people turned to plants. Read › Plants and the Pandemic

Christopher Bolden-Newsome talks about the enduring legacy of traditional African food, crops, and agricultural technique in his keynote address during this year’s Making Brooklyn Bloom. Read › Preserving African Heritage through Plants and Agriculture