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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Heather Greaves
Small Trees, Big Promise
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December 3, 2009: In these last few months I've done a lot of reading and thinking and talking about urban greenery and the new initiatives that are trying to increase the prevalence of that greenery in New York City. I did not arrive at... read more >
Ode to the London Plane Tree
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November 25, 2009: For the last few weeks, as mentioned in some previous posts, I've been helping the New York City Parks Department code some of the correspondence they receive from the public (mostly complaints) for future analysis. Luckily... read more >
Not In My Sidewalk!
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November 16, 2009:   As I've mentioned before, some people just don't seem to like trees very much, and some of the more dramatic incidents of anti-treeism made it into my pervious posts. But in the last couple of weeks, I've been spending... read more >
City Forestry: The Next Generation
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November 11, 2009: The other day I was lucky enough to accompany a New York City forester into the field -- which is, in this case, the city. Our first stop was Randall's Island. As we slid out of our beat-up, overloaded minivan to oversee a... read more >
You Take the High Road
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November 1, 2009: The backstory has been told many times by now: how, originally, the High Line was an elevated railway line down Manhattan's west side, serving the Meatpacking District. Built in the 1930s, it replaced a street-level rail... read more >
New York's New Forests
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October 26, 2009: So this past Saturday was It's My Park! Day in New York City, a day when much tree-planting was going on under the direction of the NYC Parks Department, the Partnership for Parks, and MillionTreesNYC. Unfortunately I wasn... read more >
No trees, please, we're urban
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October 20, 2009: Do you like trees? I like trees. I would be hard pressed to think of a tree I didn't like. Well okay, I've never been a big fan (so to speak) of palm trees, especially as urban trees -- which is why I felt somewhat... read more >
City Parks: Beyond Trees
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October 14, 2009: For me, city parks serve mainly as mini-wildernesses, providing escape from the occasionally oppressive communion with my fellow beings that characterizes big city living. It's fairly logical, therefore, that I can't wait to... read more >
New York City Parks -- and Me
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October 6, 2009: For a country girl presently immersed (sometimes drowning) in New York City, the city parks are islands of refuge. I love walking in them and suddenly noticing that I can't see any buildings, that the roar of traffic is... read more >
Heather Greaves
I'm an environmental biologist-in-training who reached my current path in a roundabout way: via half a US history degree and several years in the 'real world' as a bookseller, bank teller, tech supporter, traveler, and construction worker (in return for room and board in a... More