This post is less about New York than it is about some of the urban “gardens” we found. All were accessible from the street and there were more than we’re sharing here.
The gardens ranged from large pots to 90-gallon potato drums, decorated tires and complex shelf-like systems (all pictured below). I love the ingenuity of people and their refusal to let the lack of land inhibit their ability to grow food for themselves.
Here’s a sample of a few that we found:
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It is pretty interesting to see how innovative people get. I saw a photo just the other day of a brick wall with eaves troughs screwed into it, one beneath the other about 7. They were about 6 feet long full of earth and they were growing herbs, leaf lettuce and arugula. Too cool.