Every year on the day of the summer solstice, people gather to make and listen to music for “Make Music”, an event that happens all around the world in 120 countries and over 1000 cites, including New York. We have… Continue Reading
This year, the Weather Gods are smiling at our plants but not at GreenThumb events. This weekend was “Open Garden Day”, two days of fun events at all community gardens in the city. And it rained – again. Saturday was… Continue Reading
This week was the National GrowTogether Conference, a meeting of community gardeners from all over the country. It was organized by the NYC ParksGreenThumb in partnership with the American Community Gardening Association and the Denver Urban Gardens’ Urban Garden Project.… Continue Reading
It is the first day of June and some of our roses are already finished blooming. Pat Austen still has a few flowers but she does not look as lush as just a few weeks ago on the photo below.… Continue Reading
A while ago, a graduate student from the University of Connecticut asked us if he could include LaGuardia Corner Gardens as a site for his study of solitary bees in urban and non-urban areas. After confirming that this research would… Continue Reading