Why Grow Wine in the City?

Grapes do remarkably well downtown

Paul Greenberg
2 min readSep 15, 2021

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Frontenac grapes grown at Ground Zero for my wine, Château Nul (photo by Paul Greenberg)

For the last 16 years I have maintained a garden at New York’s Ground Zero, a stone’s throw from where the World Trade Center once stood. It has been an arduous sometimes amusing, always frustrating process. On this 20th anniversary of 9/11 I’ve written a couple of pieces about it all one for The New York Times, another for The Guardian. The history and…

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Paul Greenberg

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org