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 blockFor the past year the Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts have been honored to work with Peter Shenk Koontz. Peter arrived in NYC from his home-state of Indiana last August and came to BLT and MLT via his Vista sponsored position with the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. He enthusiastically jumped into his role […]
Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts, Carver Community Garden, NYCCAH, Peter Shenk KoontzGardeners 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 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 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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