WEEKEND REFLECTIONS: ROOFTOP FARMING IN GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN ....

The Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is difficult to find.  The Farm opens to visitors on Sundays - check the website HERE  (which doesn't tell you how to get there, but does tell you which Sundays are open).  It is at 44 Eagle Street, a converted industrial building about 3 stories up.  The climb entails walking across plastic matting placed upon a hot sticky tarred rooftop surface.  Me looking through a nearby reflection of the debris on the way up.

Take a walking stick - it is rough going in places....

Arriving along a very narrow walkway.   Today's project, to remove the ground cover in the foreground to plant peppers

 Freshly picked salad greens can be purchased on the way out  - they are well worth the cost!  Crisper than the green market offerings, of course.

The prettiest rooster I have ever seen!  It is adopted.   He has two hens that lay light blue coloured eggs.   They are there to provide the fertilizer.

A volunteer conference!

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