NEW YORK -- As 18-year-old Naseem Haamid rounded a busy Bronx street corner, the scenery changed from honking horns, screeching tires and rumbling train tracks to clean, green space on a quiet ...

Many farmers and gardeners have heard the term bio-swale, but the exact definition—much less how and why to build one—is elusive for most. To get right to the point, a bio-swale is basically a fancy ...

Pat Hermés loves a garden project. None, she says, has been more fun than the iris swale she created. A swale, a pretty word for ditch or trench, carries and slows runoff water, improving its ...

We’ve been tracking the movements of Swale, a forage-ready floating food forest around the New York City waterfront, for the last few years from the Bronx to Brooklyn Bridge Park and Governors Island.

Chris Fountoukis’ Solitude Dude, who has finished all by himself in his first two career starts, will seek to separate himself from his competition once again in Saturday’s $175,000 Swale at ...

Q: We have a lot in the Oakland hills that was chosen years ago to be the site for an open concrete drainage swale that carries the runoff from a catch basin at the end of our private lane. We share ...