Burpee Seed Report: The Big Gigantic Seed Festival
 Here in the Children's Education department, we think of ourselves as "optimistic gardeners"—We plant tomatoes on May 1: Early girls, Juliet's, and Sungolds. Our Director of Horticulture, George Pisegna, says May 26. Our Director of the GreenTeam Projects, John Cannizzo, says May 15. So, is May 1 too early?
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Seed Starters Start Seeds
 The Hort welcomed our Seed Starter members for an evening of starting seeds, sipping spring inspired cocktails, and making new friends. Participants chose from a variety of peas, beans, and herbs to plant in recycled seed-starting pods—many of whom were experimenting with urban gardening for the first time!
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Landscape Architecture Month: Focus on Green Infrastructure
 On Thursday, April 4, The Hort hosted an opening reception for Currents in Green Infrastructure: Designs for a Sustainable New York City, an exhibition presented with the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA-NY). The reception also served to kick-off a series of related events for Landscape Architecture Month.
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Marie Dehaene on Urban Agriculture
Sustainable Cities, a panel discussion about the multifunctionality of urban farms as hubs of production, social interaction, education and diversity, is just one of many exciting events to look forward to at this year’s Urban Agriculture Conference from May 15–17. Rose Brook had the pleasure to meet and interview panelist Marie Dehaene. Born in Tours, France and living in Paris, Marie started her career as a landscape architect and has travelled extensively around the world to consult the city government of Paris about sustainable urban agriculture.
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New Photos from our Flickr Photostream
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