RE: Plot at Floyd Bennett Field
- To: "'c*@webtv.net'" , community_garden@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: [cg] Plot at Floyd Bennett Field
- From: H* A*
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:20:23 -0500
- Importance: high
Dear catread,
1) The Floyd Bennett Field Community Garden is in the Floyd Bennett Field
section of the Gateway National Park. Although I have not been there
personally, it is huge by NYC standards, occupying 5 acres with 600 beds. I
believe that they do some rather outstanding work with food banks and soup
kitchens, but I'm not exactly sure of that. The nice lady at the Gateway
Environmental Study Center gave me this contact number for you:
Floyd Bennett Field Community Garden
Mr. Allan Douglas, coordinator - (718) 946-4845
2) NYC's Parks Dept Community Gardening Organization is run by American
Community Gardening Association Board Member, Edie Stone. Green Thumb
coordinates a large number of Brooklyn Community Gardens:
Green Thumb
49 Chambers Street Suite 1020
New York, NY 10007
(212) 788-8059
3) The Trust for Public Land is setting up a Brooklyn Land Trust for gardens
that it currently owns and can be a good source of Brooklyn community
gardening opportunities. Contact Paul Coppa or Andy Stone at (212) 677-7171.
They should be able to give you
some direction/
4) The New York Restoration Project is a newer but very interesting greening
organization/land trust in NYC which currently manages a number of "saved"
gardens.
Write to to these folks or call them explaining your interest in community
gardening opportunities in Brooklyn:
Brian Sahd ( or anyone who is in the office)
New York Restoration Project
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
Tel: (212) 258-2333
Tel: (212) 258-2333
5) catread, you may want to also want to write or visit with the nice folks
at these Brooklyn gardens as well:
Brooklyn
Jes Good Rewards Children1s Garden
155 Amboy Street, Ocean
Hill-Brownsville
This large garden is used by seven area
schools and features a children1s camp
in the summer and after school. The
gardeners run a recycling program to
educate area children and adults and
have a compost project in the garden.
Children using the garden have helped
to construct a wildlife habitat that is
recognized by the National Wildlife
Federation. Garden President Jestine
Roper helped to found the Ocean Hill
Brownsville Garden Coalition in an
effort to preserve neighborhood
gardens. Community Board Sixteen
supports the permanent preservation of
Jes Good Rewards Children1s garden as
a park.
New Visions Garden
590-598 Schenck Avenue, East New
York
Neighbors moving into recently
constructed single family homes on this
once desolate block decided to
transform an unsightly lot filled with
construction debris and illegally
dumped tires into a community park for
the many neighborhood chldren. the
garden now features a trellis, flower
and vegetable plantings and a colorful
mural. The Block Association also
managed to have a mural painted on a
wall across form the garden,
transforming this once glomy corner
into a cherrful spot for barbecues, block
parties, and family events. the annual
block party features horseback rides
provided by the New York Black Rodeo
Association.
Tapscott Union Street Block
Association Garden
2007 East New York Avenue, Ocean
Hill, Brownsville
The motto of the community group
sponsoring the Tapscott Street garden
is 3Better Neighborhood Through Better
Blocks.2 Garden coordinator Alfreda
Shem Yahudah embodies this spirit in
her work with local youth. Ms. Shem
Yahuda yearly sponsors several
Summer Youth interns to work with her
in the garden. Youngsters have helped
to construct aq gazebo and manyt
planting beds and produce vegetables
and herbs for local seniors. This large
site complements newly constructed
housing on the rest of the block.
6) I'm not sure of the addresses of these community gardens, but I know that
they are active, hard working community gardens:
Circle of Hope Garden, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Mermaid Garden, Coney Island, Brooklyn
The Dug Out, Coney Island, Brooklyn
Bears Garden, Brooklyn
Childrens Garden of Eden, Coney Island, Brooklyn
7) This weekend, there is a splendid Brooklyn community garden networking
opportunity for you to take advantage of:
If you are in the NYC area on Saturday, March 17, join us for an all day
free event "Making Brooklyn Bloom...with Sustainable Gardening", 10 AM-4 PM
at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Topics include workshops on Permaculture, Composting, Organic Gardening,
Wildlife in the Garden, School Gardens, Storytelling, Water Conservation,
Soil: Underground Ecosystem, Sustainability in Theory and Practice, Farmers
Market, etc. Closing plenary in auditorium at 2:15 on Garden Design in Age
of Extinction (Janet Marinelli) and Great Native Plants(Jeffry Hewitt).
JOIN US! For info, call 718-623-7250.
Ellen Kirby
Brooklyn GreenBridge
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Phone: 718.623-7251
Fax: 718.857.2430
Address: 1000 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Web Site: www.BBG.org
8) Please consider joining the American Community Gardening Association For
25 bucks a year you instantly become part of an international organization
(we have Canadians, Japanese and a coupla European members) of community
gardeners. Check out this link for all the goodies you can get as a member:
http://www.communitygarden.org/about/membership.html
There are karmic benefits to joining the ACGA as well.
Happy gardening, please let us know how it works out for you
Adam Honigman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: catread40@webtv.net [SMTP:catread40@webtv.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 8:11 PM
> To: community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject: [cg] Plot at Floyd Bennett Field
>
> I want to apply for a plot in the garden at Floyd Bennett Field.
> Can I do it from here? What's the address?
>
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