In Stuy Cove Park, a public park and native food forest that runs along FDR just east of Stuyvesant Town, the small barriers between the plants and sidewalk kept getting trampled. There was one area in particular where it was clear people didn’t want to walk around the bottom of the park, so hundreds of feet tread straight through the greenery where Candace was planning a garden. Candace was the new manager of the park and when I showed up to volunteer a few hours of gardening help, she explained how we were going to handle the situation. The ineffective barrier would be pulled down. We would put down a layer of cardboard, mushroom spores, mulch, and woodchips to create a path across the park where people were already walking. And the wine cap mushrooms would hopefully grow right in that path, as they tend to like a little disturbance.
Make the path where there’s already a path
Make the path where there’s already a path
Make the path where there’s already a path
In Stuy Cove Park, a public park and native food forest that runs along FDR just east of Stuyvesant Town, the small barriers between the plants and sidewalk kept getting trampled. There was one area in particular where it was clear people didn’t want to walk around the bottom of the park, so hundreds of feet tread straight through the greenery where Candace was planning a garden. Candace was the new manager of the park and when I showed up to volunteer a few hours of gardening help, she explained how we were going to handle the situation. The ineffective barrier would be pulled down. We would put down a layer of cardboard, mushroom spores, mulch, and woodchips to create a path across the park where people were already walking. And the wine cap mushrooms would hopefully grow right in that path, as they tend to like a little disturbance.