How radical gardeners took back New York City
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2021
- Seed bombs, the "tree lady of Brooklyn," and the roots of urban gardening.
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New York City looked a lot different in the 1960s and 1970s. A sharp economic decline and white flight meant there was mass disinvestment and urban decay, particularly in the city’s lower-income neighborhoods. It’s what Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy noticed in their communities when they each set out to revive their neighborhoods by making them greener. Ultimately, their radical acts of gardening would transform the landscape across New York City.
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If you do this please use seeds native to the area you are seedbombing.
Yes
Thanks for the advice
Yes so crucial! If you end up planting an invasive species in the city it often gets carried by unwitting people into the countryside and it can become an even bigger problem! Also native plants in the city will attract healthy local insects for your gardens :) lots of reasons to not plants invasives so never buy these seeds bombs without knowing exactly what is inside
Was just about to comment about how important this is. Don't use non-native seeds.
Yesss. Be 100% sure that you are planting seeds native to the area.
"So are you into politics?"
"Yeah... I am a *RADICAL GARDENER* "
Based and greenpilled
Wow it’s me
@@thornyback hi
@@thornyback everyone there is so nice.
@@thornyback bless u for showing me a new cool subreddit.
It’s weird watching a Vox video and not being depressed afterwards.
Yeah, it's like Kurzgesagt; it's rare, but when it happens, boy do you feel better.
must be a leap year
Wow.. talk about knowing the right doors to open... she convinced the city to sell her the brownstones? Riiiight.. where they do that at? Women of many talents, wonder how she was learnt.. sounds like privilege
@@suzygirl1843 please shut up
Life's unfair, mate. /s
I did this to one of the vacant lots near me in Glasgow during lockdown. Spent 2 months cleaning out the trash, mostly on my own. I built 5 veggie beds from found items on the street when they stopped picking up trash for a few months. I've been growing beans and flowers for a year now. People have started joining me and have built a concrete BBQ, added bird feeders to the trees, and occasionally donate flowers, compost, and even a bird bath. I love it.
This sounds absolutely amazing!
Hi Melissa, is this online anywhere?
🤘
Great idea! Fun and good service
Awesome! If you don't mind my asking, how did you deal with lead or other toxins in the soil? That would be my greatest concern.
Best wishes to you and your endeavors! 🌺
me age 23 thinking that I haven't found my calling and purpose in the society and realizing that Hattie Carthan found hers at age 64 ! really lifting thought, everyone has their own time
I can relate at 33 😅
You'll find it. Don't rush or worry. It'll happen
Same
Maybe hurry tho. If she'd started at 23, imagine how exaggerated her effect would have been lol. It's never too late, but that's no reason to waste the time you've got. Best get looking for your purpose, even if it takes 40 years to find it.
I’m 23 too. It’s a difficult place to be but just pray God will show you why you here. God bless; hope you find your way ❤️❤️
My dad briefly ran a community garden with his school and students in East New York, he says it’s the thing he is most proud of in his 30 years of teaching
My middle school briefly ran a very tiny garden that was planted by the Special Needs students, but later tore it down because the end of the schoolyear was approaching. Those people were a bunch of authoritarian cheapskates.
my kindergarten teacher every year with his kindergarten students (the other classes don't do this so it's not part of like the curriculum or anything he just does it) we did a garden with a bunch of your foods and then we have a salad. it was really fun I miss that teacher.
Wow, your dad, unlike many in this world, made a good difference.
Mybe we should start planting native trees and or cactus around the drying up lakes to try and slow its drop from loss from the sun and heat.
Yes I know we drain them to but why not and try to slow it also it gives homes to wild life and food
@@thesilentone4024 ooh yes i like this idea thank you 🌟
Honestly this makes me so proud to be a part of my little community garden 🥺😭
Same here. I planted bulbs last fall that sprouted into beautiful flowers this spring and they totally transformed a dull yard.
Hello Levi! Btw, everyone who calls themselves an environmental should check Levi's channel! highly recommended
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Aw, I think that's great! Community gardens rock. :)
shut up white boy stop asking for praise for doing the bare minimum as a human being. ya'll always like "I am so happy I am not racist etc etc etc" lol
Don't forget that when they say they had to fight for their gardens, they had to fight. Hundreds of gardens that were once a part of the fabric of the community in NYC were sold and had condos built over them.
Because they didn't own the property. The great thing about gardens is they can be moved and/or re-created.
@@kasession Actually we do own our property as citizens (voters and taxpayers) the administrators are our civil servants and representatives. Very important to know your power as a citizen. Also, there is a law that if you use a space as a community garden/park space for over 10 years then it becomes a parks-space (what the Attorney General took the Guiliani administration to court over).
In regards to moving, if you really connect to the living earth you know it is alive and is akin to growing a child. Our planet needs to create an abundance of more green spaces if our species is to have a future.
@@areshearth9943 you should see how it was “legal” to displace Black people in NYC develop the place, not compensating residents. Not just NYC, but across the country. Shooed people out, flooded their community and made it a lake.
@@eartherinfire Agreed, most times what's legal is far from just. Working together as POC'S and with support from our allies we bring justice for all and reclaim our city in all of her fullness.
A society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in
Leaving shades to the future generations
@turboSqu1d not going to lie, your comment made me tear up. 😢
@@pattyayers it's nice to see they understood the comment :)
Beautiful words🥰
After life 🖤
One of the few Tik Tok trends that actually make the world a better place
My man, great minds think alike, we both have the same comment 👊
Yup
Yes
True man
i hate tik tok no matter what tiny good things they do for overall they are bad
Edit:
Opinion changed slightly
I found about this a few years ago in Texas. Their were people throwing these seed bombs anonymously by the roads, small fields and the grassy areas near the highways. They were mostly throwing bluebonnet, which is our state flower. I think it's sweet of them to do that.
Am inspired! In my village, forests have been cut and used for charcoal in the last two decades. It's so bad that it's hotter, rains are erratic and low. I decided last year during the lockdown to plant trees. I did 500 trees, only 393 survived the water stress. This year I planted 700 fruit trees and 30 shade trees. And actively watered them. I lost just 55 trees so far.
Now..am thinking let's do 1000 trees each year and actively water them. Maybe in a decade my village will be cooler, have more rains and lots of mangoes!🌳🍋🌧
don't give up! ✊🏾
Keep on planting and get the younger ones to assist you.
How is it going now? You're amazing to be making such a huge effort
Didn’t expect to cry over gardening this morning yet here we are
same here, tears of joy and hope
samee
you cry over this?
@@danielsteger8456 yes
@@danielsteger8456 Well YES I’m an empath, and to FEEL their JOY and PASSION is so UPLIFTING so why didn’t YOU receive these BLESSINGS, maybe if you thaw out a little you’ll benefit!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
Urban planning should always take into account the greens.
My brother's in urban planning. Green space is always included somehow nowadays, even in densely populated areas. He is always gushing about the plants he's planning on using and how people will be able to enjoy them.
@@selinaschmid696 kudos to him, I love it
It is, unfortunately it’s always the green money
It does... in the rich part of town.
Bonjour! Napoléon
I plant trees wherever I live. I have planted 75 Trees. I Geotag them and when i am in the area ill take measurements and photos for data.
Update:
Trees are in the following cities
- Orlando, Florida 50 Trees
- Camden, Delaware 10 Trees
- I95 Highway 15 Trees
- Melbourne, Florida "About to plant"
Austin let's us do a community garden and food forest in a barely used chunk of park. I guess they figure the fruit trees will outlast us so they mow around them and don't give us a hard time.
Where do you geotag them to?
@@rocolas Trello
Thats cool, what did u plant ? A flower or what
Give me tips pls on and how to do this please
I love how Hattie Carthan was described as 'a woman who went beyind herself and created the template for life to happen'. What an incredible woman who left a fantastic legacy which is still standing and needed more than ever 💖
This is the most wholesome form of radicalism
Do the capitalism
"Radicalism" = the government helping you
lol ok
@@tubeguy4066 no, that’s not true. The country is in Ruins right now. Trust me, when you get older you will realize how bad this kind of stuff is
@@tubeguy4066 it is radical, it goes against the logic of capital and therefore it's radical
Finally a use of "wholesome" that makes sense. Kudos!
Hey Vox, can you add Arabic subtitles to this video? I think the folks in Cairo would be really interested in this fight to preserve the trees and green spaces.
@AB - 06AT 780507 Robert H Lagerquist Sr PS Auto subtitles always try to caption the language being spoken. If a video is in English, and there are Arabic subtitles, then the subtitles will give soramimis of what is actually being said, resulting in nonsense in the end product. Soramimi is a concept that a when a person hears another language, they hear words that may be something else in their language. That is what the auto captions try to do, translate the spoken English phonetics to Arabic. So that would not work.
@@Hi-lq7xx ???
You could potentially make a video in Cairo?
I agree! There are several abandoned lots in my district which are filled with trash, that I see good potential for turning into green spaces. In other districts too all around Cairo from what I've seen.
This is a fantastic idea and definitely think Vox should do this! Especially since someone has requested it. We need to spread the word and information in all languages to help heal Mother Earth!
I'm crying so hard. This is tremendously inspiring. Seeing those magical green oasis in the middle of a concrete desert and how marginalized communities built them gives me so much hope and drive
This honestly made me tear up in a good way. As an advocate for gardening and preserving nature, watching this made me so happy. I live in a country that is rich in flora and worrying about having green spaces in our communities is not a thing so I take for granted that other people do not have the same luxury and have to fight for it. It made me so happy to see their work and how it has greatly benefitted the people living in those communities.
I gotta admit, when I saw that Hattie had turned the brownstones into the “magnolia tree earth center”...it brought a tear to my eye.
There comes a point in your life when you look at yourself and what you've done then you look at folks younger than you and what they're doing. When they have surpassed what I have done, I categorize myself as "old"; my time has come and gone. I watched this and felt that feeling, and honestly, its a good feeling. Hopefully the younger generation takes this urban gardening idea and runs with it and that it changes the face of big industrial cities, congrats "kids" do what my cohort never could - make cities beautiful.
Good on ya Greg. Not many people have that kind of humility
Join them, have fun :)
if they were active in the 70s and died in the 80s, they were probably "old" when you were a kid. remember she started when she was already 65 years old. its never too late to start doing something that will last beyond you.
Imagine that, removing trash and cleaning up a government property was illegal
This Hattie person is an amazing woman, was especially touched when she converted the blocks to educate the youths on environmental education.
i like this part of humanity
yes
That’s why we can never lose hope
Well said Ramon. I've been so disgusted with the human race and this video reminded me of what good can be done, by ordinary people. Instead of destroying and complaining there's much to be done, for our kids.
Yes. Now I'm joining those people, I'm going to try and reduce pollution and plant more plants and not make my city a polluted hellhole.
i stumbled across one a few years ago in the lower east side and was so confused as to how there was just a little public garden in the middle of the concrete jungle. it’s so much cooler now that i know the history. thanks!
I'd also been curious about how these developed when I first spent some time living in NYC. It is great to finally learn their history and see that it's even more inspiring than expected. Less surprising is the fact that Giuliani tried to destroy something wonderful. He's certainly consistent.
“i wanna help the community and the environment”
government: wait that’s radical!!!
@@black_forest_ they want to keep areas poor
Shout out to Hattie an everyone doin what they must to take care of their community
Yes! And Farmer Yon!
this story made me so happy- marginalized communities deserve living in safe, green spaces.
amazing, hattie will forever be a legacy
That's you in your profile
Hi
Agree...she's an inspiration to me. I think she is awesome like my son says.
I remember cartoons from when I was a kid that'd have kids rally around an old tree, but never really explained why, other than "tree is old and therefore good." Which, yes, old trees are good. But it's more than just that. This video outlines some of the many reasons why old trees are invaluable.
When I was a kid. Me and my family would plant a tree every single Arbor Day 🌲
I hope to plant that same seed of “small but radical acts” in my children one day 🌱
Walking down tree-lined streets in lower Manhattan around less crowded residential areas, is one of the best NYC experiences someone can have.
For those who can't afford some of the supplies, find trees that drop seeds. I started with acorns. Acorns are great, native maple seeds, also take root easily. Both are easy to identify. You can even expand to crab apples. If all fails. Dandelions. They are not native but naturalized and are one of the first flowers to give native bees their first sip of nectar in the spring and a delicious green that many native animals will eat.
That was great. What a legend Hattie is. To think when she started she was in her 60s, just goes to show you're never to old to start something new.
Imagine living in a world where gorwing plants is considered radical.
Crying because of how much I think about trees when I think about bed stuy these days, not even knowing its history... that was one person’s will, huh
Can’t believe how inspiring and educational this series is. Thanks, Vox!
yes
@@aaronwestley3239 hi rodrigo
@@aaronwestley3239 hi rodrigo
@@aaronwestley3239 stop stealing our seas pls. hahahha
As someone living in a hot city with little amount of green space, whenever I sit in a park it makes me know how important green spaces are to urban ppl. Appreciate the work of these two ladies in the video.
It's important to give children the opportunity to plant seeds and grow plants. It connects them to nature. I experienced it myself. They become totally different people.
This is my undergraduate thesis, and continuing it in my masters (and hopeful PhD) program. Green spaces are essential. Agriculture is essential. ❤🌱
The clip of the kids volunteering to plant trees in their neighborhood made me emotional, such a great way to make your environment your own!
Watching those pure acts of kindness made me literally cry, it's so beautiful, altruistic and sweet. Humanity restored!
I’m growing in pots a couple of herbs, cherry tomatoes and flowers. On my patio in Queens, NYC. I can’t tell you how happy they make me ♥️
This reminds me of the small joke in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when a news reporter said "...and that one tree that grows in Brooklyn".
Didn't know at the time that there was history behind that.
There is also a lot of roof space to be used for growing healthy vegetables.
The almost brought me to tears. I have friends that live in the Prospect Park area and immediately sent this to them. Seeing women lead change for their communities and have it last is amazing.
I was very honored to be a small part of this movement as a squatter and periodically a garden activist on the Lower East Side from 1988 to 1998. The community bonding around these rich spaces was profound and transformational. Lovely video. At one point after Guilliani wanted to auction them off, Bette Midler stepped in with her conservation foundation to save some of the gardens from development, including I think La Plaza Cultural on E. 9th & C. Thank you for making and posting this wonderful video.
I am so happy to see this and I am even not living in New York.
I’m volunteering at my community garden in the Bronx and learning the history and the people behind it makes me appreciate it even more 😁😁 thanks Vox!
I don't even live in NY but this made me emotional, these days people are so disconnected from one another, there is no community nor any awareness for public betterment. It almost feels like no cares for others anymore, living in their enclosed bubble of security with a wi-fi connection reaching across the globe with no actual touch.
This was such an inspiring video. Thank God for Ms. Hattie and Liz, and the legacy that they worked so hard to create.
Seed Bombs and Radical Gardening are the kind of Urban Warfare I like. 👏🏽
I'm calling up the Bird Force to carpet bomb the abandoned lots
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” some say this is quoted from 19th century poet Emerson, while some say it originated from a Native American proverb. Regardless, this wisdom always stands true. The green spaces that we build will outlive us all and serve the generations to come. Provided that we continue to nurture these spaces, and we don't demolish them for one reason or another 💚
So that's why there is a pokemon attack called seed bomb
I'm actually in love with nature since my home is filled with flowers and plants all over (my mom is obsessed) and I fell in love with it. I love the plants when it rains, the air, the flowers everything feels so At home. Also since my mom grew up in the country side where her parents own a land and a farm.
ONLY USE NATIVE SEEDS PLEASE
YES. Non-native seeds might cause damage to the ecosystem and it will be an extra hassel for the gardener. Only native seeds. There are many articles and people who can help
Yes, native seeds grow without fuss, without much care. And free.
Did u even watch the video it clearly states "NON EVASIVE SEEDS"
How about don't just don't
@@lolll3360 there might be a bunch of people that dont know about invasive species and just chose random seeds or what was pretty. Better safe than sorry
5:00 Now I know where "Hey Arnold" got the idea of making a tree a land mark! So AWESOME!!
I love doing this! I’m originally from NYC & Jersey area. I would do this all the time when I was around 10-20 years old. My Mom showed me how to make the seed bombs & would walk ateou d doing this all weekend. Patty was a legend!!❣️
In Berlin we have many community gardens too. We call them "Schrebergarten", named after Moritz Schreber. It was originally a place to give children a healthy and close-to-nature environment to play in. Nowadays mainly old people own these allotments, but more and more young people are getting interested in community gardening.
This is what happens when you place nature before greed
Philly needs some radical gardening! So sad to see such a lack of greenery in low income neighborhoods.
i don't know why but this video has me choked up, on the verge of tears. it's so beautiful. i've lived in nyc my whole life, but have never participated in a community garden. why not? it's time i do.
The story of Hattie Carthan is just amazing and heart warming. Respect for that beautiful lady!
I just signed up to volunteer at my neighborhood community garden in Brooklyn. 🙂
When people do this they need to take in to account three things. use trees that have roots that grow deeps instead of sideways or they may destroy sidewalks. Use native trees. And don´t use fruit trees, pollution will just make the fruit disgusting and no one will eat it, so they just fall to the ground and rot.
let the sidewalks crumble by the might of our trees! we are the radical gardeners. I agree with the rest tho
Planting trees in midst of a crowded metropolitan city like New York needs immense planning,hardwork and determination right from visualization to implementation of such green projects.
Never thought I’d hear the word radical and gardeners in the same sentence, but I’m glad I did :D
To being honest, this is actually such a good idea, kinda getting some aspiration and ideas from this. Thank you Vox, I might use this sometimes when I want to grow plants all over my trashy areas to help
This sort of content is exactly why I subscribe to Vox. What a nice story to start my day with. Thank you
I could listen to Yonnette talk for hours. What an incredible and inspiring woman. Continuing the amazing work of the generations before her ❤️
The image at 7:02 is such a vibe in itself to me. The aesthetic value it possesses is immense.
I absolutely love it.
Amazing ❤️ this can be replicated everywhere in the world! Thanks for much for sharing Vox . Big hug from Portugal 🇵🇹
My favourite book from childhood is “ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”🙂
I have the distinct privilege to live in the East Village, which is another neighborhood with a bunch of community gardens. These gardens have become a huge part of my life, and my dog loves them! Thank you to all of the amazing people who have made these gardens happen :)
Plants aren't just a beautiful oasis of nature in the busy, overcrowded cities, they also help with reduction in air and noise pollution.
"community gardens grow communities for the people, to be run by the people, for the benefit of the people"
Sounds like socialism, capitalism won't like that.
>the people
>socialist
Socialism would be if the city ran those green spaces, not if private individuals did. That’s capitalism. Not socialism.
It's fundamentally communism, because communities and communes. Socialism works too tho
@@fabiangonzalez-cortes8894 oh honey, no, socialism is where the means of production are owned by the community as a whole, which very much seems to be what's happening here.
Just because the that community is a group of private citizens rather than a governmental body, doesn't make it capitalism.
If a small group of people owned the gardens and charged others to use them, then it would be capitalism.
Also, socialism isn't a bad thing, it's not a scary word.
Neither is capitalism.
They're both tools which we can use to run a society.
If a plumber turned up and the only thool they had was a hammer, how comfortable would you be with that person installing a boiler?
@@fabiangonzalez-cortes8894 it's only capitalism if they intend to profit from it.
@@fabiangonzalez-cortes8894 Robert Moses destroyed many neighborhoods. This was a city bureacrat, not a business person.
Private: Fire in the hole!!
Sargent: Private what you just throw at our enemy?!
Private: A seed bomb sargent
Private: And they have a pollen allergy
... sergeant* ...
I'm not even black but my heart swelled up with pride from such an extraordinary woman.
Unbelievably beautiful things created out of the ugliness and cruelty of redlining. Fabulous!!!
I haven’t even watched this but I love the term “radical gardeners”
This is so inspiring, Vox. The great storytelling helped. I thought I was gonna cry. ❤
Knowing all of these stories helps me feel like I understand my role in the world, and I want to express my appreciation for everything that has gone into this series. To the whole team, thank you and keep up the good work. I look forward to Season 3 and the many conversations I will have about the content therein
This video is bringing back my faith in humanity, maybe it won't be the end of the world.
4:46
Wasn’t there an episode of Hey Arnold! about this? Where they had to save a huge tree that was gonna be cut down that was like 100 years old in the middle of the city.
I would imagine the writers drew inspiration from these real life events.
“Radical Gardening” two words you don’t think can come together.
check out solarpunk. another 2 words you would have never thought could go together
@@acatindisguise I hope the concept becomes more popular
PvZ in a nutshell
After I searched "How to make seed bombs" I got a free FBI agent
I’ve noticed so many cherry blossom 🌸 trees here in Nyc!! I love it 😻
Ok maybe I cried a little when she saved the 100 year old tree and turn the buildings into a teaching center
It’s something you would expect to read in a novel. Glad this story is real history!
The city looks more beautiful with tree's n gardening..
I bursted into tears when the video suddenly show the story of the old Magnolia tree. I feel like I can somehow understand the loneliness of the tree.
“Small but radical acts of kindness” wow
This story is told so beautifully, bravo Vox.
this was probably the most light hearted episode of missing chapter
Thank you for this video, as a Canadian I tend to forget that green cities are rare in other countries. Even in Toronto the fourth largest city in North America we have extensive green spaces running through the city and it is illegal to cut down tree's that are healthy.
Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy are 2 awesome inspirational women. 👏
Been feeling down as of late, but this vid’s inspired me to get out and work on my garden. Thank you Vox!
Don loggins; dude was practically born to love nature.
How fantastic! Every city would be blessed to have such caring people.
I'm a 67 year old white American man, a Baha'i for 35 years. Baha'is are committed to Community Development and this mini documentary is a delight. I'm inspired.