“I was very little when my parents took me to look at the Manhattan skyline. I was like, ‘It’s so close — could people swim to Manhattan?’ My parents said, ‘It’s way too polluted.’ Even then I thought, That’s really lazy. We should clean it up”
Over a spring weekend, thousands of plant lovers gathered in Bushwick to buy exotic cacti, learn to cultivate mushrooms, and sip natural wine. The event was called Understory, the word for the vegetation that grows beneath the main canopy of the forest. Unlike past back-to-the-land movements, this one isn’t about growing millennial-pink radicchio or starting grass-fed dairy farms.
” Even then I thought, That’s really lazy. We should clean it up.”“I dropped out of college and fell into floristry. I had a summer in Alaska on a peony farm, and that was my training. It was really off the grid, like I had to take a float plane to get there; a generator ran for an hour in the evening. I gained a lot of clarity there and realized [gardening] is super-therapeutic … With time and observation and loyalty, even neglect, you get to see something evolve.
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