Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold

Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold

Patrick Over reached for two white sacks in his bag as he ducked into a city Department of Parks and Recreation seed lab on Staten Island, letting in a rush of low-40-degree cold as he entered on a late-November day.  “How’d it go?” asked Lucy Rubino, 44, director of the Plant Ecology Center and Nursery, located at an old flower farm in Travis. “Good! There’s so much of it out there, but there was plenty more to get,” Over responded, pulling ope…