Seeds to Soil - Seed Library kick-off. Seed saving instruction. Storefront Seed Station. Opportunity to bring home plants.

This event was put on hold and plans changed due to COVID-19. We are currently developing the seed library and will share it shortly. Tiny Plots, our distributed community garden became the opportunity for neighbors to bring home daffodils in one of our milk crate planters. The seed station moved from the storefront to a new location with our master gardener in Brooklyn.

Workshops. Food. Daytime event. Silent auction. DJ. Music.

Cancelled due to COVID. We will pick this back up when things return to the new normal.

We will be re-scheduling this for a later date. The dinner was highlighting Gambian vegan cuisine using the mushrooms from our mushroom chamber as the main ingredient.

Seeds to Soil is celebrating Prime Produce’s new rooftop member, the Fluorescent Hummingbird. We’ll be writing a group poem for the Living Mural on the front of 424 West 54th Street. Our poetry lunch co-founder Kurt Peloquin will be leading us in some fun writing games to weave the tapestry of our shared words. Join us at 2p.m. pm on January 8th.

Harvest New York, Cornell Cooperative Extension in conjunction with Eero Ruuttilab hosts NYC urban farmers for a workshop on cover crops for urban farms.

Workshops will cover the 3 systems of mushroom cultivation being explored in this grant. We will go over the fundamentals of growing mushrooms and what to expect in starting a small scale mushroom farm. Willie has been growing mushrooms commercially for the last seven years and has taught thousands of people about growing. For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-york-city-mushroom-workshop-tickets-75947915259

One part potluck, one part art project. Come and join Seeds to Soil in the launching the mural project outside of Prime Produce.

Seeds to Soil partnered with Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative in their harvest themed members and residents showcase providing a community harvest produce based meal and highlighting Seeds to Soil’s work on the Living Labyrinth, now a healthy pollinators rooftop field. Seeds to Soil team member, David Hecht, discussed his work with the Cybernetics Library along with the curated garden collection, while Max Lerner introduced his GROW Externship and Retro Kingdom work.

Seeds to Soil partners with Citizens Committee for the City of New York to host Bank of America volunteers for the Living Labyrinth rooftop install day. 20 volunteers worked to assemble milk crates, and then add soil and plants to them. 60 cubic feet of soil, 52 plants, and 90 milk crates were assembled and brought up to the roof on this day. THANK YOU BANK OF AMERICA & CITIZENS COMMITTEE!

Seeds to Soil hosts Citizens Committee for New York City at Prime Produce for a training on working with honeybees + identifying and collecting data on butterflies. You will learn the fundamentals of starting and maintaining a honeybee hive as well as protecting butterflies and starting your own citizen science project. With your help, we will create a healthier environment for these primary pollinators to thrive in our city. This workshop is made possible through a grant from ConEdison. 5:30PM at Prime Produce, 424 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019.

Please join the Prime Produce community at Sprout, an evening of lively world music and delicious plant-based food and drinks. Meet the creators of Living Labyrinth, a wellness garden and community art piece, and share your thoughts on its design. Enter the silent auction and raffle for the chance to win a gift for yourself or a loved one: fine art, artisanal crafts, one-of-a-kind experiences, unusual desk pets, and a variety of other uncommon treasures.

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Proceeds from this event will support the development of Living Labyrinth.This event is produced by Seeds to Soil, a fiscally sponsored project of the 501(c)3, Prime Produce LTD, which focuses on the creative intersection of plants and people in support of resilient city systems.

Presenters: Tatiana Morin -Urban Soils Institute, Bitsy Bentley, Michelle Jackson -Seeds to Soil

In this workshop, participants will learn how to take to the streets armed with a mobile phone and collect data that will complement existing open data to build a story about the soil and air in our communities. We can use the information we collect to ask questions that will propel ideas, solutions and the implementation of these solutions.   

The workshop will cover the basics of web form design for data collection as well as techniques for interacting with data on a mobile device. Participants will use their phones heavily, so please bring a charging cord. 

This is the first workshop in the USI Workshop Series 2019 following the 2018 Symposium on urban soils: remediation, restoration, rehabilitation, regeneration, recovery, resilience, renew, re-learn, respect.   As the USI begins to build the Data Depository and Exchange, we believe that it is important to understand the data needs of the communities of this city. This workshop will also provide USI with community feedback on how best to collect useable, useful data that can help answer questions, and implement solutions.

Focus: Mushroom dinner and documentary

One part Living Labyrinth walk and another part appreciation for our Hell’s Kitchen Neighbors. Looking forward to seeing you there.

A creative brainstorming session with community members and artists will be held on Friday, Feb 8th from 6-8 pm. at La Cretia Lamb Center located at 146 Saint Nicholas Avenue (btwn 117 St & 118th St) to share our collective artistic visions of what  A. Philip Randolph Square could offer its community.

All the information that is presented at this meeting may be used by community members and artists applying for the DOT Art Commissions RFP. This meeting is held as an open source creative platform hosted by neighbors and friends of the space. It is specific to the  DOT Sidewalk Extension, located at 116th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd/St. Nicholas Avenue.

Labyrinth Architect, David Hecht will lead us in a participatory design process.

Focus: Sea of Plastics, dinner, documentary and art activation

Come join us in walking Living Labyrinth.

Come check out the proposed design for the Prime Produce Rooftop Wellness Garden. Join us and let us know what you think about your experience walking the labyrinth

Columbia University, Earth Institute Fellow, Suki Wong hosted the day with visits to the Tree Ring Lab, New Core Lab, and Marine Polar Lab.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Service hosts an interactive workshop for New Farmers.

Focus: Oceans Dinner and documentary night

Yemi Amu, Co-Founder of the aquaponic Oko Farms and Mark Prehn, Food Justice Coordinator of the Hell's Kitchen Farm Project which is home to a rooftop farm about their innovative neighborhood-based urban agriculture models that are rooted in serving community and growing justice.
Interact with Dylan Sandler, Planner of NYC Department Of City Planning and Crystal Eksi, Urban Designer with NYC Department of City Planning. Moderated by Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of Just Food. On this rainy day at Prime Produce, an enthusiastic crowd of 60 people in attendance.

Experience Designer, Michelle Calabro visited the garden to help us to determine a possible layout for the playground tile path for the Garden Lab.

Saint Mary’s Recreation Center in the Bronx gifted us with re-used playground tiles to protect the Garden Lab roof. We picked them up and brought them back up to the roof at Prime Produce

A visit with Charles at Big Re-use Compost Center in Long Island City part of the NY Compost Project/DSNY. 30 bags of compost were picked up by Michelle and Jerone.