How radical gardeners took back New York City
How radical gardeners took back New York City
Seed bombs, the “tree lady of Brooklyn,” and the roots of urban gardening.
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New York City looked a lot different in the 1960s and 1970s. A sharp economic decline and white flight meant there was mass disinvestment and urban decay, particularly in the city’s lower-income neighborhoods. It’s what Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy noticed in their communities when they each set out to revive their neighborhoods by making them greener. Ultimately, their radical acts of gardening would transform the landscape across New York City.
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Learn more about the Hattie Carthan Community Garden and Farmer’s Market: https://www.hattiecarthancommunitymarket.com/
Learn more about the Liz Christy Garden: http://lizchristygarden.us/
Learn more about Karen Washington’s work: https://www.karenthefarmer.com/
Check out the Green Guerillas’ ongoing work: https://www.greenguerillas.org
Learn more about the casita gardens across New York: https://ny.curbed.com/2015/10/1/9915402/inside-the-casitas-of-the-south-bronxs-community-gardens
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That housing sure would be nice though…
Love that Brooklyn woman.
Reparations are overdue for REDLINING amongst other things.
This video makes me so happy.
💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Amazing
you have to many ads I can not watch the video
She, and this, is absolutely fantastic. Love, on Love. :o)
As someone living in a hot city with little amount of green space, whenever I sit in a park it makes me know how important green spaces are to urban ppl. Appreciate the work of these two ladies in the video.
1500 trees over 10 years isn’t that big. I plant more than that in a single year.
rudy giuliani , the worst mayor of New York, possibly . Here, we have huge parking lots. The ones with the most trees are the coolest by far. The cheapest corporations making the largest profits generally do not water their parking lot trees !
me thinking about how i wanna do this and then remembering i live in one of the most densely forested part of my state and literally one of the most forested states in the country
if they are gonna destroy those beautiful gardens than i will protest with them.
i love this video so much
Now this neighborhood is getting gentrified
trees and plants are really important to let us reconnect with nature
Thank Goodness they saved community gardens in NYC!!
I didn’t know about this. So cool!
Really great video!
Anybody else remembering that episode of Hey Arnold
Kinda like the hottest part of the city of Arizona in ur other video
The Black Woman is GOD
Hail Hattie!
Incredible video and very inspiring! Thank you for bringing awareness to this great movement in NY!
Jeff Bezos needs to watch this video and stop going to space.
So inspiring! Powerto these women making our world better.
I don’t know why im crying to this video
We’re New Yorkers 👍👍👍. we love green 🌹🌹🌹
This is truly amazing and so inspiring
Thank you for such wonderful stories <3
This is such an amazing series! Thank you!
Change
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I LOVED the seed bomb idea!
every word yonnette spoke was poetry 😭🤧👏
Ugh. I can’t imagine how horrible it must be living in a city. I love stepping outside and hearing birds chirping and seeing butterflies and trees and plants. Everyone deserves access to green spaces!
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i don’t know why but this video has me choked up, on the verge of tears. it’s so beautiful. i’ve lived in nyc my whole life, but have never participated in a community garden. why not? it’s time i do.
I need to get with these ppl !! Where they at
I haven’t watched the video yet, just trying to guess what a "radical gardener" means. Does he plants trees with anger? Does he water flowers with Coke? Does he grab those weeds by their necks?
I don’t know why people want to remove them. I mean, nobody, absolutely nobody get stressed when they see greenery.
I really love this. Everything
Never thought I’d be hearing the term radical gardeners.
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It was an action which should have to be done in Uzbekistan
Oh wow this is beautiful
Why am I crying? Hatties story should’ve been taught in school!
capitalist hate this …
they want plant to be raised in laboratory
Gardens can save the world
Bring back the butterflies!
Am i the only one who saw this and instantly had marijuana come to mind?
@vox you should check the guerrilla foresters of beirut (@theotherforest and @theotherdada)