Gardeners are harvesting lots of vegetables these days, check out the pictures!
Carver Community Garden, community garden, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardens, urban gardens, vegetablesCheck out the vegetables (and fruit) growing at Carver Garden in East Harlem!!
Carver Community Garden, community garden vegetables, East Harlem Vegetables, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardens, NYC summer vegetable harvest, urban gardensSome gardeners, as well as some interns through a Columbia University summer internship programs, braved the heat to do a cleanup at Five Star Garden in Harlem…and the fresh picked plums were delicious!
Five Star Garden, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardensWe 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 gardensFor 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 […]
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