How green can your life and home be in a concrete jungle like New York? Many yearn for fresh air, calmness, and an ambiance that makes them feel truly at home, but only a few can realize it. For Summer Rayne Oakes, this journey of over a decade has come through growing 750 plants in her apartment in Brooklyn, an endeavor that can be rightly called a “forest in an apartment.”
In this breathing space, and there’s nowhere where there’s not a plant. The kitchen shelves have more plants than saucers and pans and there are fresh organic eggs in small trays, provided by Summer’s pet chicken Kippee and another 11 chickens that she takes care of in the community garden.
