Of 1,357 native plant species documented in New York City’s history, only 778 remain here. View a slideshow of “When New York City Bloomed at:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/25/opinion/20110326-opart.html?src=tptw#1
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You are invited on Saturday, April 2 to join a thousand community gardeners and greening professionals from all over New York City for a day of learning, sharing, networking and greening inspiration at the 27th Annual GreenThumb GrowTogether, taking place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Hostos Community College! Please pass this information out to the rest of your garden group and anyone else who might be interested. This form is also available to download on our website, but you must send payment with the form.
This year’s conference features favorite workshops from past years, as as well as exciting new ones, including many hands on workshops, and new ones for youth gardeners. We are also excited to announce that Joan Dye Gussow, author of Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables, will be our keynote speaker.
You can buy tickets online here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/163365
$3 + $1.10 service fee for purchasing tickets online.
Cost covers conference, t-shirt and lunch.
If you do not pre-register, you are not guaranteed lunch or a t-shirt.
The preregistration is extended for online ticket purchase only
Directions
Subway: Hostos is practically on top of the 149th Street and Grand Concourse stop. The 2, 4, 5 trains will get you right there.
Buses: BX 19 or BX 1 bus to 149th Street and Grand Concourse.
Hi gardeners,
We need wood chips to line the paths between beds in the West Garden. We can get these free from Central Park if we pick them up ourselves. With 2 cars and drivers, a stack of garbage bags, and a few more volunteers we can do this in a relatively short time. We know a number of you have cars, but always have trouble getting drivers to volunteer. Please make this the exception! We’ll work with the day and time that is best for you. Anytime before the April 9 workday.
Thanks so much.
Ann Levine
for the Steering Committee
As we await Spring’s arrival (today will do) I’m posting some resources I found online. Bur first, check out what’s blooming in the garden. Robin Mace captured the first crocuses. Beautiful!
From the National Gardening Association,
Mid-Atlantic Regional Gardening Report featuring blight-resistant cherry tomatoes, garden photography and the following reminders for preparing gardens for Spring:
- Cut Back Shrubby Dogwoods For New Growth
- Clip Twiggy Leadwort
- Repair Turf
- Seed Grass
- Clean Up Winter Debris
From NC Cooperative Extension’s website, successfulgardener.org:
Be Healthy — Grow What You Eat (PDF)
A brochure describing the benefits of growing your own food to you and your family with tips on preparing a garden, types of vegetables and fruits that thrive in cold and warm climates and more.
Dear Gardeners,
We are pleased to announce that the opening meeting for the 104th Street Garden will be on Sunday, March 13 at 1:00 pm in the community room at the Schneider Apartments, 11 West 102 Street. This will be a potluck brunch, so please bring something delicious to share if you are able.
We will elect the season’s Steering Committee at this meeting and we would like to encourage garden members to participate. The Steering Committee is the democratically elected governing body of the garden tasked with coordinating the communal workdays, solving small problems as they arise and coordinating member votes on more large-scale proposals. In recent years these have included the decisions to install the rainwater harvesting system and new beds to accommodate a growing membership.
Whether you are a new or a continuing member of the garden, we encourage you to volunteer to run for a post on the Steering Committee. New ideas, fresh perspectives, and energy are healthy additions to the administrative well being of our garden community. Even if you are a long-time member of the garden who has served on the Steering Committee in the past, please consider running for Steering once again. Not only do we ask that you consider the impact your experience with the garden could make, but also to embrace the reality that there are a limited number of members in our community. We must all take a turn on a rotating basis and put in some time to keep our garden functioning so that this community resource nourished by you and others continues to thrive. We need you now.
In addition, Pam Wax is leaving the neighborhood and sadly will not be returning this season. We are enormously grateful for the stellar job Pam has done in coordinating the monitoring schedule, and now we need someone to take up the helm on this task. She is happy to explain the system she has devised for tracking and notification to anyone who will volunteer to take over from her.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact any of the current Steering Committee members listed below.
Sincerely,
W. 104th St Garden Steering Committee (2010 season)
Mary Kelly i.marya@verizon.net 212-807-0266
Nikki Kowalski nikster55@verizon.net 212-665-7897
Ann Levine siswi@aol.com 212-866-3378
Paula McKenzie paulatb2@verizon.net 212-222-6337
Shane Nye shanenye@yahoo.com 510-282-1992
Alan Tenney alan.tenney@gmail.com 212-663-1314
Janice Vrana jvrana@verizon.net 212-749-7875
Marcia Berry (treasurer) xanadu@nyc.rr.com 212-865-8630
The Spring edition of the GreenThumb Program Guide is out! That means the growing season is getting closer and it’s just about time to start planning your crops and starting seeds indoors! Look inside for more information on workshops, giveaways and events for the coming quarter including:
Making Brooklyn Bloom, Saturday, March 12
The GreenThumb GrowTogether, Saturday, April 2
Chicken Health & Husbandry (bilingual English and Spanish), Thursday, May 26
Does your garden need:
- Seeds
- Raised Bed Lumber
- Fruit Trees .
- Soil /Compost/Cleanfill Request
- Hydrant Wrenches, Hydrant Adapters, and Hoses
- Plant Starts
- City Chicken Guide / Guía de la Ciudad de Pollo
- Native Plants
Download the Program Guide here or at the bottom of the page for details!
Please note that garden members must attend workshops to receive supplies. All workshops are free and open to the public, with no pre-registration (unless otherwise noted). Workshops are rain or shine, canceled only in the event of lightning or other dangerous conditions. All supplies are for registered gardens only and are available first come, first served, while supplies last.
Dear all:
Please find attached the Call for Presentations for the 32nd annual American Community Gardening Association Conference to take place at Columbia University, New York City, from August 18-21, 2011.
Downloads:
- Download ACGA Call for Presentations (PDF, 217 KB)
All proposals must be postmarked by March 15, 2011.
For more information on the American Community Gardening Association please have
visit the AGCA website at http://www.communitygarden.org.
Please circulate this message widely within your networks to anybody who might be
interested in presenting or attending.
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—– If you would like to contact GreenThumb please visit: NYC will be recycling Christmas trees next Sat. and Sun. at 3 nearby locations in the Park. They have chipping machines on site. You can dispose of your tree without just throwing it out and take away as many bags of chips as you can carry! It’s too good an opportunity to miss. Robin has done this for the Garden in the past but isn’t available this year. Will you step in? We need at least one car and driver plus helpers. Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, Jan 8 & 9 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Central Park* Central Park* Central Park* Please help out! For more information and to rsvp contact Ann A Winter Welcome to the Solstice — Solstice Neighbors and Gardeners and those of Druidical Inclination: Saturday, December 18 at 3:30- 5PM The W. 104th St. Community Garden. What’s it all about? The Winter Solstice (Dec. 21) marks the shortest day of the year and the true beginning of winter. Many early cultures burnt trees and went nuts with dance and song. This was done in an effort to tease the sun back into showing more of itself so they could get back to planting, raising crops and probably griping about friends and family who weren’t applying themselves enough in the fields. That being said, we at the West 104th Street Garden, use this event for a means to a good time while showing some real concern for those who don’t have food or fields and are likely not having a very good time at all. What to expect:
What to bring: A can of food to donate; Spare change for the cats; Good cheer! What to wear: Something warm. This is an outdoor event. Jean Jaworek and the 2010 Solstice Committee THIS IS A SUN OR SNOW EVENT. WE WILL ONLY CANCEL IF IT RAINS. Dear Gardeners, Mardi Montgomery found a grey fleece vest on top of the cat houses on December 4. She has put the vest in the west garden shed. Hope it will reconnect with its owner. |