My Urban Garden Deco Guide

As the idea of heading into the garden becomes more of a reality  with spring approaching so grows media coverage on garden trends.
As far a trends are concerned, I am a firm believer that new garden chic will be in gastro gardens .
Some say its basically a re-run of an old idea: Marie-Antoinette style escapism for today's high powered urbanites! Perhaps. In any event it is not just a thing for the radical eco addict.
Today's New Times highlights how New Yorkers can grow food even in the most minute spaces. And the BBC blog  reveals  that at the next Chelsea Flower Show one will find  a' potager' garden ( vegetable garden in French) called 'The Daylesford Organic Garden - Summer Solstice', which is being designed by the trendy / the charismatic team of Tommaso del Buono and Paul Gazerwitz.


So may I invite you to hop over to my baby site : www.MyUrbanFarm.com and  share ideas and examples you spot of this trend?
I would love to hear from you.




















Read on for  NY Times article

Urban locavores can learn how to grow food in window boxes and containers, raise bees, train vegetables to grow up (not out) on trellises, brew compost tea, plant fruit and nut trees and can the fruits of their labors from expert city farmers at the free “Edible NYC: Green It! Grow It! Eat it!” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Owen Taylor, an author of “The City Chicken Guide,” a handbook put out by Just Food, will also share his secrets; 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn,

(718) 623-7209

or bbg.org.

The same day, the Wave Hill garden in the Bronx will hold a workshop on urban beekeeping from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. City beekeepers will discuss setting up a hive, the cost of equipment, where to buy bees and safe procedures for keeping a hive flourishing. Wave Hill, Independence Avenue and West 249th Street, Riverdale; for information and to register:

(718) 549-3200

, extension 305.

ANNE RAVER