We had a great workday last week as we built a new three-bin compost system at Carver Garden in East Harlem. The bin build was sponsored by the NYC Compost Project in Manhattan, hosted at the Lower East Side Ecology Center, with technical assistance from Charlie Bayrer, of Earth Matter.
3 bin compost system, Carver Community Garden, community garden composting, community gardens, how to build a 3 bin compost system, LES Ecology Center, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardens, urban gardensThis summer, several projects have been finished at Papo’s Garden, in East Harlem. Workers from the Horticultural Society of New York’s GreenTeam helped to build a rainwater harvesting system to catch rain from the gazebo in the garden. They also built a new shed for the garden to store tools and materials. The Bronx and […]
Horticultural Society of New York, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardens, rainwater harvesting, urban gardensLast night’s workshop, held at All People’s Garden, was the first of a series of Rat Workshops that will be offered by the heath department in Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts’ gardens (Check out a news article about last night’s workshop here). These workshops provide information on how to inspect, prevent, and respond to rats […]
All People's Garden, Manhattan Land Trust, rat prevention, rat prevention for compost piles, rat prevention in community gardens, rat workshopFor four weekends in June and July, four gardens across the city will host four original plays – a different play for each garden, a different garden for each weekend. Each playwright was assigned a specific garden, which they then used as inspiration for a short play. The plays range from re-tellings of Greek myths […]
La Perla Community Garden, Manhattan Land Trust, theatre in community gardensOn Monday we had a great group from Barclays Capital serving through New York Cares at Carver Garden in East Harlem. The group got a ton of work done including: preparing, planting, and mulching a new flower and herb garden area scrubbing and waterproofing the gazebo deconstructing a concrete path putting new gravel on the […]
Barclays Capital, Manhattan Land Trust, New York Cares, NYC community gardens, urban gardensYesterday, we had an incredible workday at Carver Community Garden in East Harlem. We had an awesome group of volunteers from Fried Frank serving through New York Cares. We got an incredible amount of work done including: deconstructing the old garden beds and prepping the soil for the new beds cutting the wood, building, and […]
Carver Community Garden, Fried Frank Volunteers, Manhattan Land Trust, New York Cares, NYC community gardens, raised garden bedsThe Bronx Land Trust had their spring Gardens, Operations, and Maintenance Committee meeting on Saturday, April 30 at Tremont Community Garden. The Manhattan Land Trust followed with their spring committee meeting on Wednesday, May 4th at the Jewish Home and Hospital. These meetings are composed of representatives from each of the gardens that are part […]
Bronx Gardens, Bronx Land Trust, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardens, soil testing, urban soil remediationTuesday morning we rebuilt one of the large beds at Carver Community Garden, in East Harlem, that is used by Nourishing NYC. Check out Nourishing NYC’s blog post about their recent earth day event at Carver Garden. We had some great volunteers from Nourishing NYC and Odyssey House that helped make the project go smoothly. […]
Carver Community Garden, Manhattan Land Trust, Nourishing NYC, NYC community gardens, Odyssey House, raised garden bedsThe Bronx Land Trust and Manhattan Land Trust had their annual meetings on Saturday, March 26th. The meetings were a chance for the land trust staff to share about the work they have completed over the past year. Gardeners also had a chance to share about the events that have occurred in their own gardens. […]
Bronx Green-Up, Bronx Land Trust, Harlem Hard HATS, Manhattan Land Trust, New York Cares, NYC community gardens, Sustainable South BronxBronx and Manhattan Land Trusts had several representatives at the “Rally to Save GreenThumb” on Tuesday, April 5th at City Hall. Attending were executive director, Erica Packard; community organizer, Catherine Wint; board member, Edie Kean; and Davidson Avenue gardener, Kim Brown. The rally was in response to cuts to community block grant funding, which funds […]
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