Adding a green roof to your co-op or condo adds multiple benefits to your building: it enhances aesthetics, and increases the property value.

Farmers and other food producers rely on single-use plastic packaging to keep produce fresh, safe, and attractive to customers. With grant funding from SARE, Brooklyn Grange researched alternative packaging products that could be hospitable for microgreens.

Brooklyn Grange CEO and Co-Founder Ben Flanner and the Javits Center Director of Sustainability Jacqueline Tran accepts the 2022 Jeffrey L. Bruce Awards of Excellence for The Farm at the Javits Center, Designed & Operated by Brooklyn Grange.

TL;DR: If you bought a tomatillo seedling from us this spring, it might be a Black Nightshade, which your plant ID app will tell you is poisonous. It’s not. Our food system is.

After 12 years of co-leading Brooklyn Grange, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Gwen Schantz has stepped down. While we could never encapsulate Gwen’s contribution to the business in a blog post, here are some highlights of her impactful 4,455 days at Brooklyn Grange.

We’re always on board with trying out new green roof and stormwater management technologies, so we jumped at the chance to install the first commercial Metro Polder Roof in the United States. Read on to follow the process!