Native Plants
Wednesday, May 18th, 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Prospect Farm and Sustainable Flatbush present
Brooklyn Dirt: Monthly Talks on Urban Farming and Gardening
Talk Four: Native Plants
With Speakers Mariellé Anzelone
(Executive Director, Founder, NYC Wildflower Week)
and Chris Kreussling
(aka Flatbush Gardener)
Downstairs @ Sycamore Bar and Flowershop
1118 Cortelyou RD, BK (Q train to Cortelyou)
$5 suggested donation
1118 Cortelyou RD, BK (Q train to Cortelyou)
$5 suggested donation
(proceeds benefit Sustainable Flatbush & Prospect Farm)
for ages 21 and up
Mariellé Anzelone, Executive Director, Founder of NYC Wildflower Week
Mariellé Anzelone is a botanist, urban conservation biologist, and native plant landscape designer. The idea for NYC Wildflower Week was born of her desire to share her love of flora and create a posse of passionate plant people. Prior to this, she was the Plant Ecologist for NYC Department of Parks’ Natural Resources Group for nearly 7 years. Her op-ed on the extinct flora of New York City was recently featured in The New York Times.
http://nycwildflowerweek.org/
Mariellé Anzelone is a botanist, urban conservation biologist, and native plant landscape designer. The idea for NYC Wildflower Week was born of her desire to share her love of flora and create a posse of passionate plant people. Prior to this, she was the Plant Ecologist for NYC Department of Parks’ Natural Resources Group for nearly 7 years. Her op-ed on the extinct flora of New York City was recently featured in The New York Times.
http://nycwildflowerweek.org/
Chris Kreussling (aka Flatbush Gardner)
Chris Kreussling is a garden coach with more than 30 years gardening experience in NYC. Chris is also the Director of the Urban Gardens and Farms initiative of Sustainable Flatbush and a community member of the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities advisory board, a project of the Cornell Waste Management Institute.
Over the past 6 years, Chris has transformed a dusty, weedy backyard into a garden oasis of over 60 species of native trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers. He's documented the process on his gardening blog, Flatbush Gardener.
http://flatbushgardener.
Sustainable Flatbush brings neighbors together to mobilize, educate, and advocate for sustainable living in their Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond.
Chris Kreussling is a garden coach with more than 30 years gardening experience in NYC. Chris is also the Director of the Urban Gardens and Farms initiative of Sustainable Flatbush and a community member of the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities advisory board, a project of the Cornell Waste Management Institute.
Over the past 6 years, Chris has transformed a dusty, weedy backyard into a garden oasis of over 60 species of native trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers. He's documented the process on his gardening blog, Flatbush Gardener.
http://flatbushgardener.
Sustainable Flatbush brings neighbors together to mobilize, educate, and advocate for sustainable living in their Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond.
Prospect Farm is a community group in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, that is working together to grow food in a formerly vacant lot with the mission toward creating a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farm that can serve the community. Prospect Farm is the community leader for the Kensington/Windsor Terrace neighborhood group for the Brooklyn Food Coalition.
http://prospectfarmbk.wordpress.com
http://prospectfarmbk.wordpress.com