May 2012
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Re-Charge n' Plant
With the tools of the trade in hand, I got down to bid-ness getting the garden up to speed and planting my beastly starter plants.
Appropriately enough, I met one of the Beastie Boys earlier the same day. A story for another time.
This here orange bin contains the latest homemade ‘post, made from the finest leftovers from restaurants of Brooklyn NYC, ready to be taken down a notch and...
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Starter Plants: Beasts and Midgets
What’s the difference between these starter plants? One set is the extremely slow, meek looking batch of sprouts that I planted myself, the other are robust, ready-for-action beasts I got from the Farmer’s Market. I’m a terrible person.
In real terms, it’s been spring for roughly three months now and I can’t really afford to wait any longer to get the goods planted....
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Tool Review - Garrett Wade Has the Goods
No sooner than I reminded the world of my fondness for gardening-related gifts did I receive a box full of perhaps the most legit gear ever to arrive at Panthy’s Garden.
My friend Craig over at Garrett Wade sent three jammies, a British Army Knife, a Professional Gardener’s Digging Tool and a Dutch Hand Cultivator. I won’t lie, my first impulse was to find something immediately...
Please Like Me!
Hey champs, care to like Panthy’s Garden on the ol’ Facebooks? Membership has benefits. I’m not sure which ones, but it does. Trust…
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There Are a Million Roofs in This Town, This is...
My buddy Isaac has known I’m into rooftop gardens for well… as long as I’ve known him. So I’m not sure why he neglected to show me the goddamn enchanted oasis on the roof of his parent’s place in the West Village. I’ve only been over there a thousand times, practically high-fiving the doorman, using the bathroom and sitting in his dad’s very comfortable lounge...
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The Field Lab
“When I moved to Manhattan I was 22 years old. I thought I was the shit, I became a fashion photographer and I loved it. And then after a while of being in the super fashion world I was like, there’s a lot more to life than what the new black was gonna be.” John Wells - Off Grid interview
About a year ago I read about John Wells, an ex-New Yorker who sold his home, paid off all...
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Pincer Movement
Sitting on the couch enjoying New York 1 and some two-day old coffee I heard a ruckus on the roof. The clatter of claws and the weird yodeling of a pigeon suggested an animal face-off. I flung the door open to see both a squirrel and a pigeon looking at me like two kids who just got caught punching each other. I wish they had been punching each other. Being barefoot and in boxer shorts...
