Second Saturday In August

Our meeting brought us together in the shade of the tarp. Thanks to GreenThumb for our new signs, which Mike and other gardeners promptly displayed on our fence. We also looked at nearby empty lots and their soil – certainly our lot is much improved. The roof on the tool shed is almost complete and ready to help keep our supplies dry and organized.

 

 

 

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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June Meeting Report

We discussed:

Our regret that Citizen’s Care will close the meal service and space across the street from us due to City spending cuts. We are grateful to the (former) staff for their support of the garden and for hosting garden meetings this past winter.

GreenThumb Summer ProgramGuide – we need volunteers to attend these free workshops.

Garden Budget: Current funds to be disbursed for common requests – stakes, labels, hydrant attachment, fertilizer, trash bins and bags, gravel, hose caddy and more.

Rainwater collection plan: Detailed plan needed, please send us your suggestions

Watering attachment – one will be kept in the tool box. Roy continues to water regularly. See Steve’s recent opinion piece on this question in the previous post.

Toolshed construction team formed, to be planned further Sunday

July 5 picnic planning, join us at 2pm, side dishes welcome

Questions? Suggestions? Write to us at: info@harlemgarden.org

Steve amid the tomatoes

growing greens

planting box

Mike's new transplants

first sunflower opens

lilles greet passers-by

admiring the newly organized tool box and planning to keep it that way

May Meeting Report

Thanks for the great turn out at our May meeting. It threatened to rain but ended up being a beautiful day.

Our team of gardeners and supporters

Everyone came ready to help and we made good progress on our spring cleaning.

At the meeting we discussed watering (thank you Royland!), creating a rain water collection barrel, composting (thank you Sally, Yoko and Eren!). garbage collection (try to carry away as much of your own trash as possible, larger collections can go out to the curb on collection days). Michelle, John, Eren, Geddes and Marilyn  moved the gazebo in between the trees in the community space.  TRUCE discussed their ideas to collaborate with the garden through TRUCE Roots (8-10 students) and a mural on the garden wall.

Thanks again to everyone who attended the meeting and showed their support!

Join us Saturday, May 8th

We’ll meet in the garden at noon to share information and start our spring cleaning. Hope to see everyone in the garden!

May Meeting

As always on second Saturdays we will meet in the garden on May 8th, weather permitting, at noon.

Send us your agenda items or just join us to meet your neighbors.

April Opening

Join us in the garden this Saturday at noon to meet fellow gardeners and sign up for projects. We’ll be looking for members and friends to help us make the garden beautiful and fun this year.

Cool Season

As the garden prepares to take a nap and dream sweet dreams of next season, there’s no better time to check out what other gardens are doing – bring us back some inspiration!

All are welcome at the monthly meeting of the New York City Community Gardens Coalition

Thursday November 19, 2009

6:30 – 8:00pm at

Citizens Committee for NYC

307 7th Ave, 15th floor

 

 

 

End of season is upon us, Planning meetings ahead

The growing season is coming to a close.  It’s time to clean up and to discuss our dreams for the future.

Our garden’s regular open hours end this Saturday, as every year at the end of October. Yet it’s always a great time to share your advice and expertise, and we hope you will join us for our upcoming meetings.

Saturday, October 31: 1-6p.m. Regular Open Hours in the Garden (Last day of the year!)

Sunday, November 1: 3p.m.  Members Share Thoughts and Priorities (be prompt, we will move to Senior Center or other nearby indoor location tbc quickly)

Monday, November 2: 7:30p.m. Garden Planning Meeting, hosted by TRUCE (next to the garden on St Nicholas, just south of 118th Street). All are welcome.

On the agenda is the current draft of the garden layout:

October 2009 plan with labels

July Garden Meetings

We thank Yvette of TRUCE for coming to our garden meeting  on Saturday, July 11th. She shared plans to re-paint their mural on 117th Street and interest in including garden images in it. We have been imagining hand prints as tree leaves (like our new logo) in a larger-scale piece and look forward to collaborating or learning what TRUCE will choose. Yvette is also interested in developing a project with sails, to show students how wind can be garnered. With luck, soon they’ll be ready to help us develop wind power for our garden – one of our challenges is that we have no electrical source. TRUCE is also planning to honor Pablo, a student gardener who died tragically young, in connection with the sunflower garden planted at the west end of the garden, and will share more details soon.

We had a great meeting on Thursday, July  9th at at the Citizen’s Care Senior Center, located directly across Saint Nicholas from the garden. They are the best of members and we are all very grateful and want to help them finish planting their box!  At this meeting, we established our wish list, planned for the flea market sale and discussed garden guidelines.

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