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Thank You! Flatbush Gardener is a Finalist for the 2008 Mousies

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Thanks to everyone who nominated blogs for the Second Annual Mouse & Trowel Awards, the “Mousies.” With your support, Flatbush Gardener is a finalist in the category of Best Photography in a Garden Blog. The other finalists in this category are David Perry Photographer and Digging.

You can vote for your favorite gardening blogs until May 13th at midnight Eastern Time. You can only vote for one of the finalists in each category. You can include a comment about your choice, as well. Winners will be announced on May 15th.

You can see my photographs in posts labeled with Photos on this blog. You can also browse my Flickr Collections; most of my Flickr photographs are linked back to the posts in which they appear.

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Deadline, April 13: The 2008 Mouse & Trowel Awards
Flickr Collections: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, North Carolina Arboretum, Other Gardens, My Gardens

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Mouse & Trowel

Deadline, April 13: The 2008 Mouse & Trowel Awards

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Berberis canadensis, American barberry, Bonsai at the North Carolina Arboretum.
Berberis canadensis, American barberry, Bonsai

I know that my photographs are the single most popular feature of this blog. My Flickr site gets even more traffic than this blog.

If you enjoy my photography here, or on Flickr, please consider nominating this blog for the “Best Photography” category of the 2008 Mouse & Trowel Awards:

The Mouse & Trowel Awards were created by freelance writer and garden blogger Colleen Vanderlinden to honor and reward excellence in online gardening. Awards for a variety of blog and website categories, as well as podcasting awards, are awarded every May after nomination and voting phases.

Quickly dubbed “the Mousies” by the garden blogging community, the Mouse & Trowel Awards earned a fair share of acclaim in 2007, with multiple write-ups in the Detroit Free Press, on several websites and blogs, and mentions on garden-related podcasts.
– About the Mouse & Trowel Awards

Nominations are by the public: YOU. Nominations are open JUST THREE MORE DAYS, through April 13. You can nominate up to three sites for each category.

Here are all the categories:

  • Blogs:
    • Best Writing
    • Best Photography
    • Best Design
    • Most Innovative
    • Blogger You’d Most Like as a Neighbor
    • Best Gardening Podcast
    • Best North American Blog
    • Best International Blog
    • Best New Blog
    • Post of the Year
    • Garden Blog of the Year
  • Web Sites:
    • Best Forums
    • Gardening Web Site of the Year

Links

Nomination form, 2008 Mouse & Trowel Awards

Brooklyn Gardening Bloggers (and Blogging Gardeners)

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Update 2008.07.06: Added My American Garden.
Update 2008.05.26: Added 66 Square Feet.
Update 2008.05.03: Added A Brooklyn Life.
Update 2008.04.25: Added New York City Garden.
Update 2008.04.17: Added root stock & quade.

Just a quick post to highlight some of my fellow Brooklynites who also blog about their gardens or gardening.

Brooklyn has more community gardens – about 300 – than the rest of New York City. More people live in Brooklyn (Kings County) than any of the other four boroughs of New York City. The U. S. Census estimates that 2,508,820 people live in Brooklyn as of 2006.

66 Square Feet
The Bark Tree
A Brooklyn Life
City Dirt
The Clueless Gardener
Crazy Stable
frogma
A Garden Grows in Brooklyn
My American Garden
New York City Garden
root stock & quade
The Urban Planter
ZuZu’s Petals

Here’s hoping I get to continue expanding this list.

Links

Kings County Quickfacts, U.S. Census Bureau

Sustainable Flatbush featured in “A Walk Around the Blog”

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BRIC, the non-profit Brooklyn arts organization which produces Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT), has been doing a bi-monthly series called A Walk Around the Blog, interviews with Brooklyn bloggers talking about their neighborhoods. The latest edition features Anne Pope of Sustainable Flatbush talking about, what else, Flatbush and sustainability.

I make an appearance from 1:53 to 2:54 in the video.

If you can’t see the embedded video above, or if you want to view it at a higher resolution, it’s also hosted on blip.tv.

Related posts

Greening Flatbush a success!, February 24, 2008

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Sustainable Flatbush
A Walk Around the Blog (Blog)
A Walk Around the Blog (Blip)
BRIC

New Blog on the Block: lolAJ

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lolAJ is my current favorite read. Described as:

new york city + stuff that is political? + wtf why is it so weird to be a transsexual

Race, class, politics, post-queer deconstruction, and lolcats. It cannot be described in mere words. It must be experienced.

And not a word about real estate.

total pwnage.

PS: Re: “And not a word about real estate.” No, not in the sense of Brownstoner’s buy/sell flamers and trolls. Yes, in the sense of racial, ethnic and class disparities and outright bias in land use policy and the economics of real estate.

Just so you have some idea of what to expect.

Clinton Hill Blogade

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Updated 2008.01.21: Added links to participants’ reports

The Clinton Hill Blogade, by Luke (missing from photo)
Clinton Hill Blogade, January 2008

Today I attended the Clinton Hill Blogade, an ongoing series of more-or-less monthly meetups of Brooklyn bloggers. 17 people attended today’s event. A good turnout, considering the windchill was in the teens today.

Robin Lester of Clinton Hill Blog, Lesterhead and Flickr, hosted and coordinated today’s event at Frank White Cafe on Atlantic Avenue.

The next Blogade will be February 10 in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, hosted by Eleanor Traubman of Creative Times.

Blogade

Clinton Hill Blogade, January 2008

Clinton Hill Blogade, January 2008

Clinton Hill Blogade, January 2008

Clinton Hill Blogade, January 2008

Frank White Cafe

Frank White Cafe, 936 Atlantic Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

Frank White Cafe

Clinton Hill Blogade, January 2008

Frank White Cafe

Tempus Fugit

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Flickr set

Links

Brit in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Optimist
Clinton Hill Blog
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
Reclaimed Home

Let’s follow Brenda into the woods …

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Brenda of Crazy Stable has launched a new joint, and wants us all to tag along:

Here’s the deal: I hereby commit to walking or cycling in Brooklyn’s magnificent Prospect Park every day for a year, with as few exceptions as humanly possible, and then showing or telling you at least one cool thing I encountered, through this new blog. … I invite the blogosphere: Come to Prospect Park with me every day. Unimaginable marvels await us, if I can only get my butt out of this house.
– Can Prospect Park change my life?

She’s off to a good start, with a post yesterday and today. She has some evocative shots of Prospect Lake today, likening it to Lake Lachrymose.

So let’s visit Brenda and give her encouragement, especially on these cold winter days:

Determined to keep my resolution for a second day running, and undeterred by bronchitis, I ventured as far as the water’s edge for 10 minutes or so. Incredibly, joggers were stretching and running around in the dark and frigid morning. I detest the cold; I come to manic life during a heat wave, but cold is my Kryptonite. I’m actually scared of going out tomorrow, with wind chills in the single digits.
– A codgery of coots

New Blog on the Block: Real Flatbush

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Discovered via Google Alerts, and added to my Brooklyn blogroll a few minutes ago: The Real Flatbush, a blog “for Non-pretentious people who live in Flatbush.”

From yesterday’s opening post:

It seems that there has been a number of blogs pertaining to my neck of the woods lately. There is a disturbing trend with all these blogs. … They all seem to want to “change” Flatbush.
– Chief Joseph, Dan, The Real Flatbush

Dan identifies race-baiting in the Ditmas Park Blog in “a number of Micro-aggressive messages pertaining to Blacks living in the area.” Dan has more to say about white folk moving to Flatbush:

So I saw this chinese restaurent on Cortelyou road and Rugby Road called New Neighbor. They had a new neighbor special and a brand new cheesy OPEN sign. New furniture. I’ve been to this take out place before our fair skin brethen started to move in. … I’ve never seen cheap chinese food take out places going out of there way to look presentable. I guess all you need are a few lighter skin priviledge people to be treated like a human being. … You gotta love this brand of racism.
– New Neighbor

That would be New Neighbor Kitchen at 1404 Cortelyou Road.

A New York times story about a women from New Orleans who had a great career. She is now living on hard times. I wonder if something like that could ever happen to our new neighbors of lighter persuation at Flatbush.
– Sad Story

As one of Dan’s new, melanin-challenged neighbors I’m curious to see how this develops.

It does not require many words to speak the truth. – Chief Joseph

Brooklyn Blogger Photo-Essay: Planting a Street Tree

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Google Alerts is so cool. I just added an alert for “Brooklyn” and “Tree”. And this popped up within about 20 minutes:

I had an amazing time planting the street tree. I never had the opportunity before, only knowing how to take care of windowsill gardens. It felt like I was part of something larger than myself. I really liked getting my hand dirty and working outside. I felt like I was bringing back the wolf by bringing back a tree.
– A tree grows in Brooklyn, art, life (no separation)

Angela’s post is illustrated by a sequence of photos showing the progress from empty pit to planted tree.

A Quality Housing requirement for the NYC Buildings Department is for the home owner to plant a street tree either in front of their new home or somewhere nearby (same block or neighborhood). That was my task this week. Along with my father, we planted our first street tree together. A Japanese Zelkovatree [Zelkova serrata], apparently impervious to the devastating longhorn beetle, was chosen in conjunction with the Parks Department.

Parks has a list of approved street tree species on their Web site. This is not a complete list of species that could be planted – “Superior cultivars may be substituted with the permission of the Agency” – but species susceptible to Asian-Longhorned Beetle (ALB, Anoplophora glabripennis) are specifically prohibited. These include Maples (Acer), Elms (Ulmus), Ashes (Fraxinus), and Hackberries (Celtis).

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Asian-Longhorned Beetle
Urban Forestry

Links

Asian-Longhorned Beetle
Street Tree Species List
Trees & Greenstreets
NYC Department of Parks and Recreation