{"id":21458,"date":"2013-03-22T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=21458"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:28:13","slug":"using-hay-to-build-gardens-in-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=21458","title":{"rendered":"Using hay to build gardens in Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130322-1159461.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130322-115946.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130322-1159461.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent many summers on a farm with my family and cousins. We watched large machines pulled by tractors turn fields of waving tan coloured plants into sturdy bales of hay.<\/p>\n<p>So it was with great fondness that I read in the New York Times about a movement to use bales of hay to grow gardens in places like Harlem New York City where concrete reigns or soil is not otherwise available or suitable.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/WJFOmD\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nyti.ms\/WJFOmD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was even more pleased to read that Harlem (specifically East Harlem) is once again at the forefront of something new: one of our very own local businesses has bales for sale!<\/p>\n<p>According the New York Times: &#8220;The Urban Garden Center on Park Avenue in East Harlem charges $12 for a bale, with a $25 delivery fee to the street. Dimitri Gatanas, whose family owns the store, reported that last fall, \u201cwe sold more than we have in 50 years.\u201d When straw is a hot commodity in Manhattan, something strange is blossoming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are in Harlem and a part of this movement we would love to hear from you and and help share pictures of and promote your efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent many summers on a farm with my family and cousins. We watched large&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124715385,586,1833,13985],"tags":[77809719,79363844,291464,124718137,33609,124715426,56356401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21459,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21458\/revisions\/21459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}