In the Fall of 2019, Carver Community Garden was awarded a LOVE YOUR BLOCK grant provided by the Citizens Committee of New York City. This grant offered funds in exchange for groups looking to engage within their community for a project that somehow benefited a city block. Our garden group decided to build two flower boxes […]
Carver Community Garden, Citizens Committee of NYC, Community event, East Harlem, grants, Love your blockWe did some work at Albert’s Garden last Thursday–sanding the fence so that in the future it can be primed and painted. We made good headway on the project and hope to schedule another workday in the future.
Albert's Garden, community gardens, East Village, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardens, urban gardensWe’ve been working throughout the summer on some projects at the Lower East Side People Care Garden. We have had several volunteer groups, including a regular group from the summer day camp program from Henry Street Settlement. We have been working on a variety of projects including building a new picnic table and benches, painting […]
building picnic tables, Henry Street Settlement, Lower East Side People Care Garden, Manhattan Land Trust, NYC community gardens, 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 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 bedsTuesday 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. […]
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