Video for October 9th Harlem Harvest Festival

Join us in the garden Saturday, October 9th

Check out the video featuring our garden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpQPEJCPwk

Stone Soup Summer 2010 Available! Garden Newsletter

Get all the news in our:

Summer 2010 Newsletter

Many thanks to Marilyn for putting this together!

West 118th Street Cultural Association Fair Report

collage of garden photos - thanks Eren

Thanks to all those that stopped by to see our table! Better yet, stop to see us in the garden.

TRUCE team

Michelle's activity table

The Harlem Harvest Festival October 9th

Help us represent our garden at this fun festival!

When: Saturday, October 9, 2010

Where: in the block of St. Nicholas between 116th and 117th Streets, including A. Philip Randolph Park.

Featuring:

• A Farmers Market featuring the best in local and regional produce at affordable prices for the community of Harlem.
• “Taste of Harlem” showcasing Harlem’s most celebrated restaurants and chefs.
• Performance stage.
• Culinary demonstrations.
• Children’s Pavilion will include games and fun activities.

The Fresh Food Summit

A Fresh Food Summit will simultaneously convene New York food thought leaders and Harlem residents and leaders to forge consensus on community goals and policy. The Summit will be conducted at various locations in the neighborhood of the festival and will consist of panel discussions, workshops, film screenings and seminars.

http://harlemharvestfestival.org/

Urban Agriculture Exhibition at New School Opens September 30th

Visit a free exhibition on grassroots urban agriculture

Living Concrete/Carrot City

Parsons The New School for Design
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Galleries 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street

October 1–December 15, 2010
Opening Reception: September 30, 2010, 6:30–8:30 pm
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery

http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/subpage.aspx?id=55952

NYC Community Garden Coalition Meeting Thursday

NYCCGC will be holding it last outdoor meeting of the season tomorrow at the Creative Little Garden, 530 E. 6th St (bet Aves A & B).

Rain location: Preservation Center, 232 E 11th St (bet 2nd & 3rd Aves) just 7 blocks away.

Agenda Items:

1)Discussion of new Parks Rules

2)Planning for Town Hall Meeting (October 2 @ New School)

3)Neighborhood reports: what’s going on in your garden?

A lot has been happening. Please bring your friends, ideas and your enthusiasm.
Check out NYCCGC.org for details.

Green Guerillas Fall Harvest Meeting Monday

Special guest and honoree:

Bill Yosses, White House Pastry Chef and one of the caretakers of the

White House Garden

Green Guerillas members and community gardeners: join us as as we look back at a bountiful growing season.

Hear about community garden success stories, learn about the amazing work of our youth interns, and see colorful images of the harvest.

Free food, refreshments, and garden stories. Free raffle of t-shirts, bulbs, and gift certificates.

Free and open to all.

Please RSVP.

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Bronx Butterfly Info Next Week

Wednesday, September 29 • 4:30 – 6 p.m. • Drew Gardens • Tremont Avenue at the intersection of the Bronx River:

Come and learn more about Butterfly Project and how you can help to create habitat for native pollinators and/or educate New Yorkers about them. Butterfly Project is a group of dedicated volunteers working together since 2003. We have helped to create over a hundred butterfly gardens, given away thousands of native pollinator plants, and presented dozens of workshops on New York City pollinators, particularly butterflies. Currently we promote native pollinator education through our work with New York City educators using the Butterfly Project Pollinator Curriculum Guide.

Rsvp to Chrissyword@gmail.org; Refreshments will be served.
see http://butterflyprojectnyc.org/ for more on this organization

Veggie Plants for Food Stamps

Sharing this tip from Daniel via the NYC Community Garden Coalition:

It’s a little known fact that food stamps can be used to purchase seeds and food-producing plants.  It’s written into the federal law.  Hopefully soon that fact will be more widely known, and more widely acted upon.  Seeds and Plants, unlike any other item you’d acquire with food stamps, actually increase in value after purchase, no small matter when funds are limited.

Of course, farmers markets are probably the best place to purchase food-producing plants in this city.  And more and more farmers markets are accepting food stamps via mobile EBT readers.  Union Square Greenmarket just began accepting food stamps on September 1st.

For those of you who have purchased plants from Silver Heights Farm Nursery, you know they produce absolutely gorgeous and delicious produce.  This Wednesday (9/15) and Saturday (9/18) are their last week at the Union Square Greenmarket for the 2010 season, so if you’ve got food stamps, or know gardeners or potential gardeners who do, head on over.   (This is not a paid advertisement…and there are certainly a number of other growers who have superb plants who will be at markets past this week.)

Garden Rules in the News

Our gardeners attended a press conference yesterday where the City announced it would adopt the new rules for our community gardens and today they are in the news.

See Ivy explain collards on NY1 !

A shot of Steve on channel 11

New York Times

Wall Street Journal

We await confirmation that our garden will be transferred to jurisdiction of the Parks Department so we can enjoy these protections.