D Rooney and Sheryll Durrant, fellows at the Design Trust for Public Space, will be leading a series of workshops on the Farming Concrete (aka Five Borough Farm) Toolkit for measuring the good things happening in your garden. Want to know how many pounds of food scraps are going into your compost instead of the landfill? Want to measure the impact of your garden on gardeners' and visitors' moods? The toolkit is full of protocols to help your garden set (and achieve) goals, communicate with funders and policy makers (ahem HPD), and help make the case for more community gardens, school gardens, and urban farms. There's also a handy free website online where you can store the data (the Barn), which lets you download your raw data as a spreadsheet or a summary report as a PDF anytime you want.
RSVP to 5BFoutreach (at) farmingconcrete.org. Share with your networks.
WORKSHOPS:
Saturday February 28 - 1pm-3pm
Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
Courtesy of Gil Lopez of BBG and Smiling Hogshead Ranch
Thursday March 5 - 6pm-8pm CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
Kelly Street Garden Office
924 Kelly Street
Bronx, NY 10459
Sunday March 8 - 1:30pm-3:30pm
The Lab @ Brooklyn Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Thursday March 12 - 6pm-8pm
Just Food Office
1133 Avenue of the Americas
Suite 1515
New York, NY 10036
This workshop will be for technical assistance providers
Monday March 23rd - 6-8pm
Citizens Committee for New York City
Please RSVP for the address
The Doe Fund
2960 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
New York, NY 10039
