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Plants

New City Critics

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.

In Absentia

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.

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.

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Grassroots Biorepair: Smiling Hogshead Ranch

Whereabouts

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People love a place with “good light.”

Cleaning Up?

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?