Category - Events

Dear Gardeners,

Two alerts for this week. “Law and Order” will be shooting in the west garden on Thursday, Sept. 4, from 8 AM to 1 PM. If you plan to do any harvesting this week, you might want to go before then. We’ve been quite specific about what they cannot do (e.g., tamper with individuals’ beds) and at least one garden member will be present the whole time. But if you spot any damage after the shoot, please let me know– before Monday the 8th and at Siswi@aol.com (not the garden address).

Our next Meeting and Workday is Sunday, Sept. 7, at 11 AM. If you cannot be there, please let me know (again at Siswi@aol.com) and we’ll give you an individual assignment. Thanks.

Hope you’ve had a good Labor Day weekend!

Ann

For the Steering Committee

Annual More Gardens! Board Meeting – new date
please reply to confirm that you are coming

Tuesday September 2nd 7pm – 9pm Sharp

Address: 2022 Lexington Ave Entrance at 123rd Street
First floor office Click here for map
4,5 and 6train to 125th street

Aresh Javadi,
c o – f o u n d e r
M o r e G a r d e n s !

NY City Community Garden
Coalition – Board Member

office: 2022 Lexington Ave
First floor office @123rd St.
New York NY 10035-2225

please call office at (212) 410-4764
cell: (917) 518-9987(voicemail)
moregardens.org
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More
Gardens!
More Trees!
New York City needs to breathe!

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HARLEM GREEN, A Tour of Harlem Community Gardens

Saturday, August 9^th, 2008 10am-3pm

The NYC Community Gardens Coalition and Harlem Urban [community] Gardeners (HUG) will host “Harlem Green,” The Third Annual Tour of Harlem Community Gardens, on Saturday,   August 9^th, 2008, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.  A trolley is being provided by the NYC Parks Department to take tourists on this trip.  While it is possible to tour only a few of Harlem’s many green jewels, tourists will be provided with a map which includes gardens not on the scheduled tour.  This event will give tourists an opportunity to talk with gardeners, and to learn the history of the gardens and the community garden movement in NYC.  The Tour, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 10:00 AM at the Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden @ 219 West 122^nd Street between Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglass Blvds., where breakfast will be served.  The last garden on the tour will be the William A. Harris Garden @ 153^rd Street & St. Nicholas Avenue at 3:00PM.  Tourists will be treated to a good old-fashioned barbeque here with everything homemade and delicious!

Along the way tourists will discover everything from cooling shade trees to tomatoes, beans, corn and more unusual crops, such as stevia (a non-sugar herb sweetener) & cotton, growing in these urban oases.  There are grapevines, herbs & flowers of all varieties, fruit trees, composting projects, and solar-powered ponds which host a world of water plants and water creatures.

Vistors are welcome to join the tour at any point along the way according to Tour Coordinators, who emphasize that the gardeners “…are grassroots developers who have worked long and hard to improve and protect our environment not only, but to keep our city—which consistently ranks worst in the nation for airborne pollutants—from becoming a concrete desert.”

For further information, please call 212. 662. 2878

Sponsors for this event include The NYC Community Gardens Coalition (NYCCGC); Harlem Urban Gardeners (HUG); The City of New York Parks and Recreation Department  and  Greenthumb; The William A. Harris Garden; Project Harmony, Inc.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT-All welcome to meet local NYPD officers and members of the Precinct Council

Tuesday, August 5, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM 25th Annual Celebration of “National Night Out” 24 Precinct Community Council Celebration at Happy Warrior Playground (Amsterdam Avenue btw 98^th and 99^th Streets), including food, music games and a clown for the children. Contact: Ms. Lucile Donte at 212.662.0723 or the 24 Precinct Community Affairs Office at 212.678.1811. 20 Precinct celebrates at Verdi Square, 72nd Street and Broadway with a band and lots of freebies. Contact: Ms. Sam Katz (212) 587-1000 or samkatz@nycdetectives.org

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Summer Chess-In-Parks Program: Councilmember Gale A. Brewer, in conjunction with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, brought a Summer Chess-In-Parks Program to Samuel Bennerson Park, located on 64th Street between Amstrerdam Avenue and West End Avenue in Amsterdam Houses/Addition (NYCHA).  This program, scheduled July 7 to August 21, Monday – Thursday, 10 AM to 2 PM,  includes free instruction in all elements of chess, including piece movement, strategies, opening lines, checkmating patterns, tactics and more.  This program is fun and is open to all children. Info: 212-408-0296.

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2008 Parks Mobile Units: NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Mobile Unit For the past five summers Council Member Gale A. Brewer, in coordination with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, has brought Mobile Units to parks throughout the neighborhoods of the Upper West Side and Clinton.

August 6 from 11 AM – 5 PM: Skate Unit , with in-line skates, helmets and knee guards, Harborview Houses Courtyard, 530 West 55th Street.

August 22 from 11 AM – 5 PM: Skate Unit , with in-line skates, helmets and knee guards, Amsterdam Houses, 64th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues.

August 28 from 11 AM – 5 PM: Fitness Unit, Dance Dance Revolution, a musical video arcade game played on a dance pad, along with hula hoops, jump ropes, and fun activities for people of all ages, DeHostos, West 93rd Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway.

Hi Gardeners

Thought you might be interested in this New Yorkers for Parks program about our parks, their design, and various issues that we in our garden might want to think about–passive and active solar, wind power, etc. Please note that you can attend for free if you make reservations. (Phone number at the end.)

Suzanne

Spotlight on Design: Building in the City’s Parks

Designing new buildings for parks offers some of the greatest challenges and opportunities in urban architecture today, as planners balance effects on the landscape with practical uses. Join some of the city’s leaders in park design as they discuss the aesthetic and environmental considerations that go into planning tomorrow’s innovative park buildings today, including use of lawns as roofs, buildings as armatures for tapestries of living plants, wind turbines, passive and active solar power, and building textures evocative of owl feathers.

Charles McKinney, Chief of Design of Capital Projects for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, will lead a discussion on using buildings as landscape with Greg Kiss of Kiss and Cathcart and Jennifer Sage and Peter Coombeof Sage and Coombe.

Reservations required. $9 general admission; $5 Museum members, seniors, & students.

Thursday • July 24 • 6:30 PM
at Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
(212) 534-1672

www.mcny.org

Special offer for New Yorkers for Parks subscribers:

Receive free admission to this program by calling (212) 534-1672, ext. 395 for reservations. Please mention New Yorkers for Parks when you call.

On Friday, July 4th, there will be a potluck BBQ beginning at 5pm. Please bring a dish, soda, water, or other donations (hot dogs, hamburgers, veggies, charcoal — to grill, of course) for the BBQ.

*Please RSVP to Ann Levine, siswi @ aol.com, so we can have an idea of how many are coming.

*Members and their personal guests ONLY!!!

*Please remember garden rules regarding no alcholic beverages in the garden.

Music in the W. 104 St. Community Garden this Saturday, June 21!

Please come to the garden for a day of free music in celebration of the Summer Solstice–part of the Make Music New York Festival. Bring your friends and family!

The program is a great one, including a children’s program, jazz, and classical music.

Please invite all your friends and neighbors. We want to make these musicians, who are playing for free, feel welcome.

* 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. – For children and their parents: Classical musician Vita Wallace of Orfeo Duo will teach children and others how to make and play instruments in the garden.
* 1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. – JAZZ: The Rob Jacoby Quartet, with sax, guitar, base and drums.
* 2.30 p.m. – 4 p.m. – JAZZ: Sam Salinger and friends
* 4 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. – CLASSICAL: Royden Ringer woodwind duo

Make a picnic of it– food will be on sale. The Garden is between Central Park West and Manhattan Ave. — close to the B & C W. 103 stop, and the Broadway 104 stop.

Questions? Please call: Rolando Hudson, 212 865-6112

Montessori Graduation 6/19 at 8:30am

F.Y.I. : Montessori Graduation time change : FROM 10:30 a.m. TO 8:30 a.m. 6/19

Composting

F.Y.I. : For all you composters. LM

Question: Can you explain “lasagna” gardening? I keep hearing about it, but am not sure what it is.

Rebecca says: Think of lasagna and the layers needed to make it. Now think of a compost pile and the layers of green and brown materials used to make it. Lasagna gardening uses the same principles — but directly in the garden right on top of the soil! This means there’s no digging and no rototilling. And the best part is that it really improves the quality of the soil and encourages beneficial microbes, bacteria, fungi, and other life in the soil.

Lasagna gardening starts with a layer of brown corrugated cardboard or newspaper laid right on top of the soil. The additional layers are alternating “brown” and “green” materials. “Green” might consist of grass clippings, kitchen scraps (vegetables and fruits), manure etc. “Brown” includes autumn leaves, shredded newspaper, dried debris etc. These are piled and layered to the height of about two feet and then allowed to decompose and break down. By season’s end your “lasagna” will be transformed into a rich, crumbly soil loaded with life.

Visit Celebrating the Seasons for more from Rebecca Kolls and the National Gardening Association.

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Also, don’t skip this. LM

This is a link to an excellent article on Garden Safety and Children and Pets.
http://www.garden.org/celebratingtheseasons/?page=safety