Flatbush Gardener

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Flatbush Gardener: Garden coach, writer, photographer, designer.

I moved to New York City, to the East Village, in 1979. I started city gardening soon thereafter. I moved to Brooklyn in 1992. I now make my home and garden in Flatbush, Brooklyn (USDA Hardiness Zone 7b, AHS Heat Zone 5).

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Brooklyn Gardeners, Gardens, and Green Spaces

615 Green Community Garden (Park Slope)
66 Square Feet
A-Gitate
Added Value (Red Hook Farms)
Anticipation
Back Garden Project
Bird Sightings, Prospect Park
bk farmyards
BQE Keeper
Bramble & Bean
Brooklyn Bears Community Gardens (Park Slope)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG)
Brooklyn Community Gardeners Coalition (Yahoo Group)
Brooklyn Farm (Carroll Gardens)
Brooklyn Farmer
Brooklyn Feed
Brooklyn Garden Hopeful
Brooklyn Grange
Brooklyn Greenway Waterfront Initiative
Brooklyn Roof Garden
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District (Fort Greene, Clinton HIll, Prospect Heights)
Bucolic Bushwick
Bushy Garden (Bushwick)
Clifton Place Garden (Clinton Hill)
Clinton Hill CSA
Clueless Gardener
Cobble Hill Tree Fund
Compost for Brooklyn (Kensington)
Crown Heights CSA
Culver Community Garden and Sculpture Park (Sunset Park, Borough Park)
Culver Garden (Sunset Park, Yahoo Group)
Dean Street Orchids
Ditmas Park CSA
Earth Matter
East New York (Brooklyn) Gardeners Association (ENYGA)
East New York Farms
F that S
Farming Concrete (Mara Gittleman)
Floyd Bennett Garden Association
Fort Greene Composting Project
Fort Greene CSA
Fort Greene Park Conservancy
Friends of Boerum Gardens (Boerum Hill)
Garden Grows in Brookyn, A
gardening in the boroughs of nyc
Green-Wood Cemetery Trees
GreenBeat Brooklyn
Greenbridge, BBG's Community Horticulture program
Greene Acres Community Garden (Bed-Stuy)
Growing Green in Brooklyn
herbn' hoe
Hollenback Community Garden (Clinton Hill)
I Grew This
Kensington/Windsor Terrace CSA
Liberty on 10th Street (Park Slope?)
Lorna Sass at large
Maize Field
Mapleton, Brooklyn
My American Garden
New York City Garden (Kensington)
North Brooklyn Compost Project (Greenpoint/Williamsburg)
Notes from Carroll Gardens
P.S. 107 Edible Garden (Park Slope)
Petr Salidar (South Midwood)
Plot Thickens, The (Prospect/Crown Heights)
Pollarded Brooklyn (Dan Silverstein, Carroll Gardens)
Pratt Garden Society
Prospect Heights Community Farm
Prospect Heights Urban Forestry Initiative
Prospect Park
Red Shed Community Garden (East Williamsburg)
Red Shed Community Garden (East Williamsburg, Yahoo Group)
Rooftop Farms (Greenpoint)
Rose Red and Lavender (Williamsburg-Greenpoint)
Schaef Earth Garden (Park Slope United Methodist Church)
Soiled Hands
Sprout Home Brooklyn
Summit Street Garden (Red Hook)
Tree Grows in Bushwick
trees, if you please
Urban Forest
Warren St. Mark's Community Garden (Park Slope)
Woodbine Street Block Association Garden (Bushwick)
Wyckoff Community Garden & Farmer's Market

Links > Flatbush & Neighbors

34 Crooke Ave.
70th Precinct Community Council
Abbasubi
Amanda Kavanagh
Autonomous Parasite
Bad Girl Blog (Kensington)
Being Brooklyn: On Urban Mindfulness
Best View in Brooklyn (Sunset Park)
Beverley Square West Association
Beverley Square West Soccer Mom
Brian Wood
Brokelyn
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn Parade
Brooklyn Stories
Brooklynista
brooklynometry (Windsor Terrace)
catonavenue.com
Church Avenue BID
Church Avenue Chomp
Church Avenue Merchants' Block Association (CAMBA)
Community Artists Meeting (Ditmas Park / Kensington)
Community Board 14
Compost for Brooklyn (Kensington)
Crazy Stable (Caton Park)
CurdNerds
Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn
Ditmas Park Art and Galleries
Ditmas Park Association
Ditmas Park Blog
Dorchester Senior Citizens Center
Dukes of Flatbush (Motorcycle Club)
East Flatbush Brooklyn Memories
edgeofboroughpark
Eighty-Sixed (T.K. Danovich)
explanada
Fading Ad Blog
Flatbush Caton Market
Flatbush CSA
Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC)
Flatbush Diaries
Flatbush Family Network (Yahoo Group, requires membership)
Flatbush Farm Share (CSA)
Flatbush Frolic
Flatbush Gardens' Blog
Flatbush Life
Flatbush Pigeon
Free School Apparent
Friends of Sunset Park
frogma
Giant Squid Eye (Prospect Park South)
Gideon Kendall (Kensington)
Glossophagia (Windsor Terrace)
Hang Fire Books / William Smith
Hawthorne Street
Jayadeva's Brooklyn (Sunset Park)
Kensington (Brooklyn)
Kensington Area Residents/Merchants Alliance (KARMA)
Kris Waldherr
La Poutine Cachere
Lefferts Manor
levjoy dot com
Little Grey Speck
Living on Rugby Road
lolAJ
Loose Leaves: Notes from Third Root (blog)
Loralei B&B
Mythical Creatures/Leigh Stein
nadgb (not a day goes by)
Neighborhood Housing Services of East Flatbush
Neil deMause
New Growth
Newkirk Area Merchants Association (NAMA)
P.S. 139 Parents' Association
Peregrination, A
Peter Kobel
Petr Salidar (South Midwood)
Planet PLG (Prospect Lefferts Gardens)
PLOG (Prospect Lefferts Gardens)
Poetry of Dee George
Porochista Khakpour (Kensington)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens CSA
Prospect Park Alliance
Prospect Park South Neighborhood Association
Prospect: A Year in the Park
Q at Parkside
Quiet on Cortelyou
Real Flatbush
Renovating on the Cheap (Lefferts Gardens)
Rodney Bedsole Photography
Room 144 (Ditmas Park)
Roux, The
Rugby Gardens (B&B)
Sacred Vibes
Scritch and Scratch
South Midwood Residents Association
South Midwood Residents Association (Members-only Yahoo Group)
Stable Brooklyn
Stable Brooklyn (Windsor Terrace, Yahoo Group)
Starving Artist Tours (Victorian Flatbush/Ditmas Park)
Sunset Park Autonomous Zone
Sunset Park Chronicled
Sustainable Flatbush
Third Root (Blog)
Third Root (Web site)
This is really happening
Trouble in Flatbush (Art Levt)
United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park (UPROSE)
Variegated Life
View from Argyle Heights (West Midwood)
West Midwood Community Association
Windsor Terrace Alliance (WTA)
Winthrop Street New Generation Block Association (WSNGBA)

Links > Brooklyn

Amusing the Zillion (Coney Island)
Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
Audubon Center, Prospect Park
Bay Ridge Blog
Bay Ridge Journal
BBG Visitors (Flickr)
Big Sky Brooklyn
BK Southie (Bensonhurst)
Brit in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition (BARC)
Brooklyn barks...and meows! (BARC blog)
Brooklyn Bears Community Gardens
Brooklyn Before Now
Brooklyn Born
Brooklyn Bridge Forest
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment (BCUE)
Brooklyn College Community Partnership
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (BPL)
Brooklyn GreenBridge (BBG)
Brooklyn Heights Blog
Brooklyn Historic Railway Association
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Parrots
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)
Brooklyn Revealed
Brooklyn Rocks (Deborah Matlack)
Brooklyn Vegan (Not about food)
Brooklyn's Trees (Flickr)
Brownstoner
Bushwick BK
Carroll Gardens Diary
Center for the Study of Brooklyn
Cobble Hill Tree Fund
Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods
Creative Times
Crow Hill Community Association
Daily Photo
Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn
Delectatio Morosa
Dope on the Slope
Duffield Street Underground
Eagle Street Rooftop Farm (Greenpoint)
East New York Farms (blog)
Easy Being Greene
EcoStation NY (Bushwick)
Erica Sherman (Sheepshead Bay)
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE)
food of the future, the
For the Love of Brooklyn
Frogma
Gerritsen Beach (blog)
Gowanus Canal Conservancy
Gowanus Dregers Canoe Club
Gowanus Oyster Garden Stewards
Green Brooklyn
GreenBeat Brooklyn
Greenpoint Waterfront Alliance for Parks & Planning
Hollenback Community Garden (Clinton Hill)
I Love Franklin Ave. (Crown Heights)
I'm Seeing Green
Ink Lake
Kinetic Carnival (Coney Island)
Living in Brooklyn, Longing for Maine
Living in the Stuy
Living in Victorian Flatbush
Luna Park Gazette (Bay Ridge)
madabandon
Magnolia Tree Earth Center
Miss Heather's Joint (Greenpoint)
Narrows Botanical Gardens (Bay Ridge)
Newtown Creek Alliance
Nostrand Park (Crown Heights)
Not Another Feakin' Blog (Tracy Collins)
Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn
Pardon Me For Asking (Carroll Gardens)
Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council (PHNDC)
Salt Marsh Alliance
Save Bedford Stuyvesant
Self-Absorbed Boomer
Short Story (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick)
Society for Ethical Culture, Brooklyn
Suffolk County Cooperative Extension
Sustainable Flatbush
Tim Connor (Park Slope)
Trees, Not Trash (Bushwick)
View from the Hook (Red Hook)
Walk Around the Blog (video)
Williamsburg Greenpoint Preservation Alliance
Yo Hablo Analogue (Photographer Verne B.)

Links > Queens & Long Island

Douglaston/Little Neck Historical Society
Going Green on Long island
Keeping the Forest in Forest Park
Long Island Beekeepers Club (LIBC)
Long Island Botanical Society
Long Island Gardening Community Resource
Long Island Gardening Community Resource
Long Island Invasive Species Management Area (LIISMA)
Long Island Rose Society
Long Island Sound Study
Lost in the Ozone (Ozone Park)
Newtown Pentacle
Old Long Island
Queens Botanical Garden
Queens Crap
Save Ridgewood Reservoir
Save the Sound
Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden

Links > NYC & Region

Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) Main Page (Parks)
Audubon Society, NYC Chapter
Bee Watchers (The Great Pollinator Project)
Bees NYC
Beyond Oil NYC
Bike New York
Botany of the NYC Metro Area (NY, NJ & CT)
Bronx River Alliance
Butterfly Project (Wildlife Conservation Society)
Campaign for Community-Based Planning
Center for an Urban Future
Center for New York City Neighborhoods (CNYCN)
Citizens Emergency Committee To Preserve Preservation
City Chickens (Just Food)
City Limits
City Parks Foundation
Community Garden Locator (OASIS)
Community Garden Mapping Project (CENYC and OASIS)
Community Gardens Coalition, NYC
Community Service Society
Compost Project
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Cooperative Extension for NYC
Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC)
Crime Stats, NYC
CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities
Daffodil Project
Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), New York State, Region 2 (NYC)
Design Trust for Public Space
Drosera (Michelle Anzelone)
Ephemeral New York
Forgotten New York
Fresh Kills Park (Staten Island)
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (NYU)
Garden by the Sound (Fairfield, CT)
Gotham City Honey Co-op
Green Guerillas
Greenbelt Native Plant Center
Greenmarket (CENYC)
Greenstreets (Parks Department)
GreenThumb
Habitat for Humanity, NYC
Historic Districts Council
Horticultural Society of New York (HSNY)
Hudson Valley Seed Library
Just Food
Liz Christy Community Garden
Medieval Garden Enclosed (The Cloisters Gardens)
Million Trees NYC
More Gardens!
Municipal Art Society of New York
Native Plant Conservation Initiative, NYC
Native Plant Society of New Jersey
Natural Resources Group (NYC Parks)
Nature Calendar
Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC
New Jersey Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
New Jersey Tree Foundation
New York Botanic Garden (NYBG)
New York Bounty
New York Metropolitan Flora Project (NYMF)
New York Restoration Project (NYRP)
New York Tree Trust (Parks)
New York vs Bed Bugs
New York, Plants, and Other Stuff
New Yorkers for Parks
Open Accessible Space Information System (OASIS)
Parks & Recreation, NYC Department of
Partnerships for Parks
Picture New York
PlanNYC Portal
Program for the Human Environment, Rockefeller University
Project for Public Spaces
Rainforests of New York
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES)
Saw Mill River Coalition
Slow Food NYC
Stewardship Roundtable (NJ)
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture (Westchester)
Storm Water Infrastructure Matters (S.W.I.M.)
Subway Art Blog
Sustainable Cities Blog (CUNY)
Trees & Greenstreets (Parks)
Trees New York
Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Trust for Public Land
Union Square Park NYC-Native Plant Garden
Urban Field Station, NYC, USDA Forest Service
Victorian Society of America, Metropolitan Chapter
Wave Hill
Westchester Community College Native Plant Center
Wildflower Week

Links > New York State and Region

Bettle Busters (ALB Info)
Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture
Cornell University
Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
Eastern Native Tree Society
Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY)
Farm Bureau of New York
Forest Guild
Garden of Possibilities (Deborah Roberts, CT)
Great Lakes Information network (GLIN)
Horticulture Department, Cornell
Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE)
Invasive Plant Council
Invasive Species of Massachusetts
Ledge and Gardens (Layanee's Gardening Blog, RI, HZ 5b-6)
Native Plant Center, Westchester Community College
Native Plant Society of New Jersey
Natural Heritage Program (NY DEC)
New England Wild Flower Society
New York Flora Association (NYFA)
New York Flora Association Blog
New York Invasive Species Information
New York Invasive Species Research Institute
New York Landmarks Conservancy
New York State Arborists
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
Northeastern NY Nursery & Landscape Association
Northern Woodlands
Ornithology Department, Cornell
Preservation League of New York State
Rhode Island Wild Plant Society
State of Green (NY DEC)
Turtle & Tortoise Society, New York
Urban and Community Forestry (DEC)
Wildlands and Woodlands (New England)
William Cullina

Links > North America (Mostly U.S.)

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP, U.S.)
American Chestnut Foundation
American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)
American Forest Foundation
American Forests
American Horticultural Society (AHS)
American Littoral Society
American Society of Naturalists (ASN)
American Society of Plant Biologists
Backyard Wildlife Habitats (NWF)
Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BONA)
Celebrating Wildflowers (USDA Forest Service)
Center for Biological Diversity
City Parks Blog
Community Wildlife Habitats (NWF)
Cooperative Extension (U.S.)
Eat the View (U.S.)
eBird
Ecological Landscaping Association
EcoTone: Blog of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Emerald Ash Borer
Exotic Forest Pest Information System
Firefly Watch
Forest & Shade Tree Pathology
Forest Service, Northeastern Area (USDA)
Garden Professors, The
Garden Writers Association
Green Building Council (USGBC)
Horticultural Services Division, Smithsonian
Hyperlocavore (Yardsharing)
Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States
iTree (Free Software for Urban Forestry)
Landscape for Life
Lawn Reform Coalition
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), USGBC
Living Memorials Project
Lost Ladybug Project
National Gardening Association
National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC)
Native Plant Conservation Campaign (NPCC)
Native Plant Database (Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center)
NatureServe
NatureServe Explorer
Network for Citizen Science
North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI)
North American Native Plant Society
North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC)
North American Society for Bat Research
Plant Conservation Alliance (U.S. National Parks Service)
PLANTS Database (USDA)
Pollinator Partnership
Seed Savers Exchange
Sustainable Sites Initiative
Take a Bite out of Climate Change
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Urban Farming
Urban Natural Resources Institute
Urban Wildlife Sanctuary Program (Humane Society, U.S.)
Water Use Program (USGS)
What Tree Is It? (Online tree ID guide)
Wild Ones

Links > Global and International

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Bat Conservation International
Best Green Blogs
Cooking for Engineers
Encyclopedia of Life
Global Crop Diversity Trust
Global Invasive Species Initiative (Nature Conservancy, UC Davis)
Honeybee Conservancy
HOSTS (Lepidopteran Food Plant Database)
Indigenous Environmental Network
Invasive Species Weblog (Jennifer Forman Orth)
Kitchen Gardeners International
Nature Conservancy
Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security
Seed Germination Reference (Technical)
Small Planet Institute
Xerces Society

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Other

Heritage Rose Foundation
Librarians' Internet Index
Rainforest Alliance (RA)
Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
- GLobal Restoration network (GRN)
Tree of Life Web Project
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
What's That Bug?
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
- Invasive Species Specialist Group, Global Invasive Species Database

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