Gritty and Green explores all the facets of gardening in a city -- whether it's creating your own small backyard garden oasis, planting herbs on your roof deck, growing flowers in containers on your stoop or cramming as many plant babies onto your windowsill as you can. Each episode host and Master Gardener, Meredith Nutting, is joined by folks that know the ins and outs of urban gardening from the tiniest seed to the biggest bureaucratic policies in urban agriculture. You'll learn a little about the sciences and a lot about how to grow your own flourishing urban garden.
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Gritty and Green explores all the facets of gardening in a city -- whether it's creating your own small backyard garden oasis, planting herbs on your roof deck, growing flowers in containers on your stoop or cramming as many plant babies onto your windowsill as you can. Each episode host and Master Gardener, Meredith Nutting, is joined by folks that know the ins and outs of urban gardening from the tiniest seed to the biggest bureaucratic policies in urban agriculture. You'll learn a little about the sciences and a lot about how to grow your own flourishing urban garden.
Gritty and Green presents a four part miniseries, We Are Seeds, featuring community gardens around Philadelphia with stories of the past and present as told by the gardeners that tend the beds.
Glenwood Green Acres is one of the largest and oldest urban farms in Philadelphia, with over 75 gardeners growing food on the 4 acres in any given year. The garden was founded in the early 1980s on a lot left empty after the whiskey barrel factory burnt down. Tired of seeing their neighborhood used as a dumping ground, James Taylor and a handful of neighbors worked to clean it up and start the garden. In 1996 the garden was formally protected by the Neighborhoods Garden Trust. Now plots have passed down through generations of new gardeners like president Darlene Marcus, whose grandfather was one of the first gardeners at Glenwood. She’s joined by VP Louis Tillery and Treasurer Viery Ricketts-Thomas to share the garden’s history and gardeners new and old share its present. There’s even a surprise appearance from State Senator Sherif Street and the president of the Philadelphia Horticulture Society, Matt Rader.
Gritty and Green
Gritty and Green explores all the facets of gardening in a city -- whether it's creating your own small backyard garden oasis, planting herbs on your roof deck, growing flowers in containers on your stoop or cramming as many plant babies onto your windowsill as you can. Each episode host and Master Gardener, Meredith Nutting, is joined by folks that know the ins and outs of urban gardening from the tiniest seed to the biggest bureaucratic policies in urban agriculture. You'll learn a little about the sciences and a lot about how to grow your own flourishing urban garden.
