Home Depot & BJ’s Wholesale Club Will Limit Bee-Killing Pesticides
After a number of years of studying mysterious bee behavior and colony collapse disorder, this past May Harvard researchers announced a connection between massive bee die-offs and neonicotinoid...
View ArticleTo Best Help Monarchs, Plant Native Milkweeds
First the good news: Monarch butterfly populations, which had fallen to alarmingly low levels in 2013, rebounded slightly in 2014. But we need to do a lot more to insure that these amazing little...
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Stuyvesant Cove? Early Spring Edition
Even though it may not necessarily feel like it, spring is here! Finally! And that means it’s time for the Park to wake up and start going through its fascinating bloom cycle. This year, we’re going to...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Climate Thing?
Earlier this week, novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote an essay for the New Yorker wherein he bemoaned what he sees as the disproportionate focus on climate over nature- specifically birds. This prompted...
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Stuyvesant Cove? Mid-Spring Edition
Even though the temperatures are still flirting with winter, it’s almost May and spring is really, truly here. Can summer be far behind? But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The Park is waking up and...
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Stuyvesant Cove? Late Spring/Early Summer Edition
The official start of summer is coming up with this weekend’s Summer Solstice, but the weather has already turned pretty summery! And the Park is showing it, as it transitions from spring to summer...
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Stuyvesant Cove? Mid-Summer Edition, Pt. 1
As we approach the end of July, more flowers are blooming than ever. If you want to see native plants at their lushest and most productive, now is the time to pay a visit to the Park. If you stop by...
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Stuyvesant Cove? Mid-Summer Edition, Pt. 2
Summer is flying by, isn’t it? Labor Day is less than a month away, and parents are counting the days until school starts again! But in Stuyvesant Cove Park, the flowers of summer are still blooming,...
View ArticleTeachers! Check Out the New Green Design Lab Website
The Solar One Education team is excited to launch our new, enhanced website, thegreendesignlab.org! The new website is easy to navigate and offers new features for registering for our Professional...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: A plant is not just a plant
This week, Liza Mindemann, Park Manager of Stuyvesant Cove Park, wrote this op-ed for the local Town and Village newspaper, all about the importance of native plants like the ones we grow in the Park....
View ArticleStuyTown & NY Cares Volunteers Wrap Up the Season in Style
Saturday November 18 th was the last Community Volunteer Day of 2017 at Stuyvesant Cove Park, and there couldn’t have been any better way to celebrate. A first in many years, the event was a...
View ArticleWinter Blooms in NYC
While most people look to spring as the season when flowers start blooming in NYC, some plants don’t care that the weather is cold. And as it happens, both Madison Square and Stuyvesant Cove Parks are...
View ArticleCelebrate and Learn About Native Plants at NYC Wildflower Day
It’s spring in Stuyvesant Cove Park! It seemed like the weather would never warm up this year, but the first spring ephemerals are blooming and now is the perfect time to catch them before they’re gone...
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Stuyvesant Cove? Mid-Summer Edition, Pt. 2
Summer is flying by, isn’t it? Labor Day is less than a month away, and parents are counting the days until school starts again! But in Stuyvesant Cove Park, the flowers of summer are still blooming,...
View ArticleTeachers! Check Out the New Green Design Lab Website
The Solar One Education team is excited to launch our new, enhanced website, thegreendesignlab.org! The new website is easy to navigate and offers new features for registering for our Professional...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: A plant is not just a plant
This week, Liza Mindemann, Park Manager of Stuyvesant Cove Park, wrote this op-ed for the local Town and Village newspaper, all about the importance of native plants like the ones we grow in the Park....
View ArticleStuyTown & NY Cares Volunteers Wrap Up the Season in Style
Saturday November 18 th was the last Community Volunteer Day of 2017 at Stuyvesant Cove Park, and there couldn’t have been any better way to celebrate. A first in many years, the event was a...
View ArticleWinter Blooms in NYC
While most people look to spring as the season when flowers start blooming in NYC, some plants don’t care that the weather is cold. And as it happens, both Madison Square and Stuyvesant Cove Parks are...
View ArticleCelebrate and Learn About Native Plants at NYC Wildflower Day
It’s spring in Stuyvesant Cove Park! It seemed like the weather would never warm up this year, but the first spring ephemerals are blooming and now is the perfect time to catch them before they’re gone...
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