It really is quite an oasis he's got down there.

And then there is Dan Vinkovetsky in his 100-by-30-foot Eden behind a Civil War-era brownstone on Prospect Place in Brooklyn, steps from Flatbush Avenue.

Senior cultivation editor of the cannabis advocacy magazine High Times, Mr. Vinkovetsky moved into the ground-floor one-bedroom apartment three years ago for $1,800 a month (now $2,400) with his wife, Sarah Miss, a sales and development director for a jewelry company. They quickly began their backyard plantings — but not the obvious.

“I have long since retired from any illegal cultivation activity,” said Mr. Vinkovetsky, 36, who writes under the name Danny Danko. He is rather high-profile to risk a pot bust at home, so, he says, “I have put my passion for plants into growing legitimate legal ones.”

A few weeks ago he and Ms. Miss invited friends to a barbecue to celebrate her 35th birthday. It rained. So what. They got wet. But the party went on.

Read the rest (and check out the great photos in the slide show):

The Backyard in New York City – An Urban Oasis – NYTimes.com