City could lose nearly 100 community gardens over contract dispute, Brookyn Daily Eagle
"Roughly 100 community gardens on city-owned land are in danger of closing or relocating due to a new licensing agreement from the Parks Department that gardeners are calling unfair and overly onerous."
Please be advised that the Committee on Parks and Recreation will hold a hearing on January 27, 2021 at 1:00pm, virtually via Zoom-Webinar regarding “The State of Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture and Int. No. 1059 A Local Law in relation…
Together with @Earthjustice & over 50 orgs, we petition NYC to protect our cherished community gardens. As gardens offer access to greenspaces for our communities & ecosystem benefits including flood mitigation gardens deserve strong protections. https://earthjustice.org/features/petition-protect-new-york-city-community-gardens
The New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) asks you to join us and support our efforts to correct the GreenThumb License Agreement. We have been trying to bring the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Mayor’s Office, and the…
NYCCGC and our electeds officials continue talks with GreenThumb and City legal to correct flaws in the license. At a City Council hearing on September 16th, Assistant Commissioner for Community Outreach and Partnership Development Sam Biederman testified that Parks is…
The City is putting pressure on gardeners to sign an onerous agreement. They are threatening groups that have been voluntarily gardening for more than 30 years. This is unconscionable. Once again, we urge you not to sign this license. We…
GreenThumb has extended the deadline to sign the new garden license agreement. The new deadline is Friday, September 20. NYCCGC continues to urge gardens to not sign the license. More than half the community gardens in New York City have…
