As part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City on Saturday, we designed a poster to display with Green My Bodega and Foodshed Market at a booth called Mapping Present and Imagined Food Systems. It was a fun opportunity to reflect on the 2010 season and to try to summarize the project for an … Continued
By Mara Gittleman Two new resources for community garden info in NYC!! Last month, GrowNYC and GreenThumb (NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation) released a comprehensive report about community gardens in New York City today. The report comes from a survey issued in 2009 and the first half of 2010, sent to 500 community gardens, … Continued
We’ve been super busy the last few weeks busily mapping gardens before the harvest is over (please lend a few hours to help! It’s really fun and will help enormously!), and collecting Harvest Logs from dedicated gardeners with scales to enter into the database. Taking a break from the repetitive, tedious process of entering each … Continued