My Domino Magazine feature on Container Gardening

“When Dominique Drakeford first looked at her Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment with her fiancé, it crossed off a major point on her checklist: It had a big backyard. And in it, she planned to grow her own garden. Now a year later, her harvest is bountiful—cucumbers, eggplants, and all kinds of beans abound—and Drakeford, cofounder of Sustainable Brooklyn and founder of Melanin and Sustainable Style, is many steps closer to her ultimate goal: growing almost everything that she puts on her plate entirely from seeds.

“I had volunteered at a lot of farms and urban gardens in the past,” she says. “But now gardening has really transformed into something that is so intrinsically part of my happiness and joy and healing. It has become so deep for me.”