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The article discusses a dispute between the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (H.P.D.) and community gardeners in New York City over community gardens planted in vacant lots. Topics addressed include opposition to the H.P.D.'s proposal to build housing on the lots that have been used for community gardens, legal aspects of the licensing for community gardens, and the community benefits of the gardens.

The article discusses the fact that the majority of individuals working at urban community gardens and farms are women, focusing on urban agriculture in New York City. Topics addressed include women farm managers' speculation on the reasons why fewer men apply for positions at urban farms and community gardens, stereotypes regarding women gardeners, and the significance of the social causes behind working in urban agriculture.

The article discusses efforts to grow peanut plants at the Battery Urban Farm in New York City as of May 28, 2014, highlighting obstacles facing the possibility of growing peanut plants in New York due to climate. Topics addressed include the history of the significance of peanuts in New York; second-grade students' efforts to help plant peanuts at the farm; and peanut planting at the Weeksville farm in Brooklyn, New York City.

The article features three garden experts from New York which include Green Gulch Farm Zen Center garden manager Lauren Bouyea, Bayard Cutting Arboretum executive director Nelson Sterner and Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center senior director Doctor Damon Waitt. It mentions the favorite trees of these experts as well as their recommendations for gardeners at home. It also notes their suggestions on various planting methods and lawn ornaments.

The article focuses on PlaNYC, the sustainability initiative of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg calling agencies to determine vacant land that can be used for urban agriculture. GreenThumb director Edie Stone notes that approximately 100 potential sites will be evaluated for the program. It is also noted that someone who can think of ways on how to grow a healthy crop is necessary before turning these parcels of land into urban gardens or farmland.

AFTER half a century in public life, the most famous quince trees in New York are looking -- let's say mature. Or how about distinguished? No need to beat around the bush, said Deirdre Larkin, the horticulturist who tends the four beloved quinces at the Cloisters Museum and Gardens, along the Hudson River in Fort Tryon Park. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NEARLY a million people live alone in New York City, according to Census Bureau figures. And at one time or another, almost all of them have probably had the same thought: if I die unexpectedly tonight, watching an episode of ''The Millionaire Matchmaker,'' who will find the body? A boss? An estranged lover? The pizza delivery guy? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HAVE you seen the Mushroom Man? No? Well, have you looked in the Secret Garden? It's a real place, you know, a half-hidden community garden at the corner of Linden Street and Broadway, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The Mushroom Man is real, too. His name is Kendall Morrison -- he's 47 years old and semiretired from the publishing business -- and on any given weekend, you're likely to find him in a shady grove of silver maples, cultivating eight varieties of mushrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]