Garden Girl TV: Four Season Gardening
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Garden Girl TV: Indoor Garden Part 4
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Garden Girl TV: Vertical Gardening Three
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Garden Girl TV: Vertical Gardening Two
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Garden Girl TV: Vertical Gardening One
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Garden Girl TV: Container Gardening: Drip Irrigation
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letter from the publisher
Welcome to the June issue of Natural Awakenings NYC. We’re calling this edition The New York Summer of Love Issue. And for the cover, who better to celebrate this retro-phenom, than the cast of Broadway’s award-winning, free-spirited revival of HAIR.
This month’s cover story is an interview with Will Swenson, the Tony-nominated pulse of the American tribal love-rock musical. He tells us what the Tony nomination means to him and shares his healthy-living secrets for life in the big city. In Postcards From The Edge Will’s cast mates tell us what they’re planning to do in New York this summer, when they’re not onstage doing eight shows a week, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Check out the list Cool Things To Do In A Hot City, featuring the endless activities you can do outdoors in New York City, to celebrate your own summer of love.
Read about High Line Park New York City’s newest and hippest, about-to-open park. The High Line is nestled between the trendy Meatpacking District and the Hudson River. It’s built on an old, deserted section of elevated freight railway, on 6.7 acres of prime real estate and promises to be the latest standing room only addition to the neighborhood.
Catch-up with Green Girl as she continues to juggle her new green life with her new romance.
You can keep the oven turned off for this month’s Local Greens and see what Robin Mattson has put together from her CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) delivery.
Take a few moments to read Emotional Fitness Kathleen Noone advises readers to set their intentions for having fun this summer.
Pets In The City is a touching reminder of how our pets can also be victims of the punishing effects of the economy and what one rescue group is doing to help pets and their owners in crisis.
Meet June’s Natural Hero, Blake Mycoskie . He started out almost winning the 2001 season of The Amazing Race, which lead him to create TOMS Shoes. At last count Blake’s company has donated over 140,000 pairs of shoes to children in need around the world.
This summer you clearly don’t have to leave the city to have a great vacation. Grab a free bike, have a drink at a rooftop bar, go to the beach, go to a baseball game, outdoor movies, concerts, plays, outdoor yoga classes, free fireworks…There are a million ways to have a great summer in New York. So don’t waste any opportunity to enjoy summer in the city.
Tom Citrano, Publisher
Tom Citrano’s Summer in the City
Shakespeare in the Park, Yankee Games,
The Fourth of July fireworks (this year over the Hudson River).
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HealthBriefs: Nature’s Viagra
Watermelon, America’s all-time summer favorite, delivers more than just a juicy cool-down. According to a Texas A&M University study, the summer fruit may enhance libido in much the same way that Viagra does. “The more we study watermelons, the more we realize just how amazing a fruit it is, in providing natural enhancers to the human body,” says Bhimu Patil, Ph.D., director of Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center, in College Station. Bhimu and his fellow researchers have discovered that a special nutrient in watermelon, called citrulline, has the ability to relax blood vessels, similar to the action of common male sexual enhancement drugs.
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Will Swenson’s Naked Truth
By Tom Citrano
Tony-nominated actor, and one of the stars of HAIR, Will Swenson (Berger) shares his feelings about being nominated for his first Tony award and his pursuit of living healthy and green in New York City.
What’s this Tony nomination mean to you?
Oh, my God! I haven’t had time to let it sink in yet. I’ve been trying to be an actor for a really long time and I guess you always think about how brilliant it would be but it’s never a reality. I’ve had friends who were nominated and it always seems real when they get nominated. But now that I’m nominated…it doesn’t seem real.
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NaturalHeroes: Blake Mycoskie
Racing Against Poverty,
One Shoe At A Time
by Tom Citrano
This month’s Natural Hero, Blake Mycoskie, turned his run as a competitor on the CBS Emmy-winning reality hit, The Amazing Race, into an opportunity to create TOMS Shoes, a company whose bottom line is providing for children in need. In 2001 Blake and his sister, Paige, competed in The Amazing Race II and came within four minutes of winning the million dollar prize. Four minutes that arguably would have changed Blake’s life. Instead he took the situation and turned it into TOMS Shoes and has now changed the lives of children across the world.
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