Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt is a former editor of BBG's digital editorial content and the Guides for a Greener Planet handbook series. She has been on staff at Plenty, Budget Living, and Harper's Bazaar, and her writing has appeared in OnEarth, Health, The New York Times, and the Village Voice.
Online Articles
- At Last…May Flowers
- Discovery Garden Sneak Peek
- BBG Babies
- Healthy Lawns
- Young Hawks Learn to Fly
- Q&A with E.O. Wilson
- Summer Harvest
- A Fern Grows in Brooklyn
- Using Newspaper as Mulch
- Early Bloomers
- Market Day in the Children’s Garden
- Panda Cubs Happy To Help Take Care of Excess Bamboo
- BBG Gives Hort Help to the Lowline
- South African Spring
- Bloom Alert: Rose Garden
- Fight for Sunlight Campaign Opposes High-Rise Towers
- See Spring in the Garden Again
- Photos Lead to Discovery of Unknown Leafhopper
- Magnolia-rama
- Wearable Art
- Q&A with Darrel Morrison, Designer of BBG’s Native Flora Garden Expansion
- Herb Garden Harvest
- How Did the Cherries, Magnolias, and Other Plants Handle the Snowstorm?
- Talking with Artist Adrienne Adar
- Bidding Farewell to Scot Medbury
- Monarch Caterpillar Goes Green (Video)
- Native Flora Garden: A Link to Our Natural History
- Last of the Million Trees Given Away at BBG
- Four Delicious Salsas Created in the Children’s Garden
- New Trees Along Flatbush Avenue
- Behind the Scenes: Planting Bulbs
- Blooming Right Along
- A Japanese-Style Backyard Garden in Brooklyn
- An Annual Border in Mondrian’s Style
- Bloom Alert: Discovery Garden
- Citrus Blossoms, Jasmine, and More Fragrant Flowers in the Conservatory
- Small Gardens and Tiny Greenspaces Attract City Wildlife
- Lilacs in Bloom in Their New Home
- Return of the Water-Lilies
- Terrarium: A New Exhibit at BBG
- Notice How Each Flowering Cherry Cultivar is Different
- Is a Potted Christmas Tree a Good Idea?
- Ambassadors Caroline Kennedy and Reiichiro Takahashi Plant a Cherry Tree at BBG
- A Sustainable School Garden in a Former Parking Spot
- Eastern Red Bat Roosts in the Discovery Garden
- The Water Conservation Project Is Open
- Garden Presents Crown Heights Block with Greenest Block in Brooklyn Award
- Plants, Sunlight, and Buildings
- Fashionable Firs
- Rain Gardens Capture Stormwater
- Food for Thought
- When Will Spring Finally Spring?
- Q&A with Onika Abraham
- Escaped from the Compost Bin!
- A New Machiai: A Traditional Japanese Waiting Bench
- Children’s Garden Grows Food for the Community
- Talking with Chenae Bullock
- Look for These Cacti and Other Plants in the Desert Pavilion
- Red-Tailed Hawk Thriving at BBG After Rescue
- Talking with Artist Shayne Dark
- Botanical Dyes
- Revisiting the Plant Family Collection
- Supporting the Global Climate Strike and Action
- Q&A with Brooklyn Botanic Garden President Adrian Benepe
- Lenapehoking: The Land of the Lenape
- Snowdrop Struck
- Run for the Roses
- Global Worrying?
- Using Beneficial Parasites to Attack Garden Pests
- Can You Predict When the Cherries Will Blossom?
- What Is That Colored Light Coming from the Greenhouses?
- Preserving Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Hybrid Oak
- Bloom Alert: Daffodil Divisions
- Lovely Lotuses
- Wow, What’s That Smell?
- Another Reason to Green the City
- Street Tree Bed Care: Tales from the Trenches
- Darwin’s Orchid in Bloom
- Con Edison’s STEM Series Brings Students to Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Notice How Different Daffodils Can Be
- Identifying Flowering Cherry Cultivars
- What Kinds of Plants Grow in the Water Garden?
- Bloom Alert: Crape-Myrtle
Contributions to BBG Handbooks
Image, top of page: Antonio M. Rosario