by Justine 
Late last year, post rooftop-farm season, I started working on a bioremediation project in north Greenpoint. The land in question is soil-turned-gravel-parking-lot, turned soil again: a yard so full of weeds that in clearing them, we recovered four bicycles, a set of chairs, and a barbeque. The weeds we cut back we piled to one side of the yard. They were too seedy to compost (even in the heat of a compost pile, weed…
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