WHINGS (West Harlem Initiative for Garden Sustainability) is born

Thank you all  for helping strengthen our community gardens.

The meeting last week was a success and everyone enjoyed participating in this exciting venture, now entitled WHINGS (West Harlem Initiative for Garden Sustainability) Whew!!! As we start our garden up this spring; we can also have an impact on the wider community: helping to share the blessings of community gardening  with other residents and neighborhood entrepreneurs. Each of you, brought something special to the meeting: it wouldn’t have been as successful; without you.

Weather permitting we will have our first meeting, of 2011, in the garden; next Saturday, March 12th at noon.

We are Parks!

Edie Stone, Director of GreenThumb Signs

 

 

Historic Moment for Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden

 

Steve Signs

Ladies and Gentlemen! We are THRILLED to introduce to you one of New York City’s newest parks! That’s right, Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden successfully completed registration this year, under the Department of Parks and Recreation this time (instead of Housing). This time, gardens under HPD could only renew their very revocable contracts for one year. Our garden now enjoys a four-year agreement with the City with no new obligations to us. Our new status recognizes all the hard work that we have put in so far and will encourage us to dream about even better things for the future. Congratulations to everyone who has made our garden come alive! Thank you!

How do you think we should celebrate? It’s going to be a great spring!

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