garden

Cultivating the garden

We should get off FarmVille and nurture a real plant.

Local Entreprenuer to Plant Life in Barren City Plot

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence, and nowhere is this more apparent than on Amsterdam Avenue and 119th Street, where metal lattice and barbed wire section off nearly half a block of weeds, dead plants, and a pump house.

James Lenzi, owner of Haakon’s Hall restaurant—which is scheduled to open in mid-April—is organizing a transformation of this city-owned plot that sits adjacent to his business.

On-Campus Garden to Promote Sustainability

Armed with shovels and environmental initiative, eco-friendly students gathered outside of Pupin Friday afternoon for the groundbreaking of Columbia’s new community garden.

‘Gadfly’ Exiled From Garden

“I thought you’d be in jail by now,” Don Colflesh said laughingly to Barbara Hohol, his neighbor.