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Plants
Queer Comfort
Plants in a Staten Island garden — and the communities that sustain them — bloom in genders beyond binaries.
Networked Nursery
Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
What's Growing?
Urban agriculture today extends from small community gardens to commercial hydroponics. New York City seeks to cultivate its many benefits.
A New Harvest
Herbs and berries are free for the picking along the Bronx River Foodway. But the public place for foraging is also a pathway to stronger connections with local ecologies and community self-determination.
Landscape Orientation
An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.
Staying Means Leaving
How do you respond to remediation when it falls short, again and again? For New Jersey's Ramapough Lunaape, mending the impacts of pollution on ancestral land means restoring health and indigenous culture on new ground.
Up on the Roof
New York City has passed sweeping new laws to green the city’s roofs. What do they mean for residents, building owners, and birds?