HARLEM GREEN, 7th ANNUAL TOUR OF HARLEM COMMUNITY GARDENS—OLD AND NEW
(A labor of love, Labor Day Weekend event)
Community garden-building has long been a labor of sweat, tears and love in Harlem and elsewhere in NYC, and no community garden was ever founded without a serious struggle. Moreover, maintaining community green space and growing food, locally and organically (read, non GMO), is more critical than ever in an age when giant corporations threaten to genetically modify our food and turn our green spaces into skyscrapers.
Harlem’s gardeners have been pioneers and visionaries when it comes to a healthy urban landscape. They recognize that innovative community gardens and urban farms are the future of our densely populated urban areas.
Thus, on Saturday, September 1, 2012 (rain date, Sunday, September 2), Harlem gardeners will host HARLEM GREEN, the 7th annual tour of Harlem farms and gardens. Tourists will see lush oases with verdant flora and fauna, rain water harvesting systems, solar pond aeration and lighting, vertical gardens, established fruit trees, abundant and unique vegetables, grape arbors and more. Some gardens began over 25 years ago on what was then sun-parched and rubble-strewn abandoned city lots. Tourists will also visit new gardens where neighbors have come together to sow wildflowers, excavate and reclaim abandoned debris-strewn lots.
The Tour will begin at 10:00 AM with a sumptuous breakfast on West 122nd Street at the JD Wilson Memorial garden. Thanks to the NYC Parks Department, a bus will transport folks (who aren’t walking or bicycling) on the Tour. The grand finale will again take place at the William A. Harris Garden with, this year, a celebration of peach cobbler—since the Harris gardeners will be holding their annual Peach Cobbler Bake-Off.
Sponsors for the event include The Green Guerillas; Greenthumb and The Parks Dept. of NYC; The William A. Harris Gardeners; NYCCGC (The NYC Community Garden Coalition); Project Harmony, Inc.
For further information please call 212.662.2878.
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HARLEM GREEN ,THE SEVENTH ANNUAL TOUR OF HARLEM GARDENS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST, 10:00AM-5:00PM.(raindate, Sunday, Sept. 2nd).
CONTACT: Project Harmony, Inc.(Cindy & Haja Worley)--HOME/OFFICE: 212.662.2878; mobile: 917.288.8053.
The Tour will take place from 10AM-5PM, beginning at THE JOSEPH DANIEL WILSON GARDEN @219 West 122nd Street (btw. Douglass and Powell) and continuing with stops as follows to the(final stop) WILLIAM A. HARRIS GARDEN @ 153rd and St. Nicholas Avenue.
1. The Tour will begin at 10:00 AM at 219 West 122nd Street between Frederick Douglass and AdamClayton Powell Blvds.
(Breakfast in the Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden). The bus should meet us at 219 West 122nd at 10:00 AM.
2. Little Green Acres Garden, 122nd and Frederick Douglass Blvd ---.10:55 AM
3. The Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden, @ 118th and St. Nicholas Ave---11:15 AM
4. The 123rd Street Block Association Garden, 123rd between Powell and Malcolm X Blvd---11: 35 AM
5. The Lakshmi Garden, 123rd Street btw Douglass and Powell---.11: 50 AM
6. The Clayton Williams Garden, 126th and Frederick Douglass Blvd.--.12: 15 PM
7. The PCB's William B. Washington Garden, 126th and St. Nicholas Avenue---12:30 PM
8. St. Mary's Urban Farm, 126th and. Amsterdam Avenue---12: 55 PM
9. Harlem Rose Garden, 4 East 129th Street between 5th and Madison—1: 30 PM.
10. Margrichantie Garden, 155-159 West 133rd Street BT/W Powell and Malcolm X Blvds---1: 50 PM.
11. 148th Street Garden, 148th between Frederick Douglas and Adam Clayton Powell Blvds—2:40 PM.
12. Hope Steven Garden: 1656 Amsterdam Avenue@ 142nd Street--.2: 20 PM
13. Convent Avenue Garden, 151st Street @ Convent Avenue---3 :05 PM
15. The William A. Harris Garden, 153rd and St. Nicholas Ave—BBQ AND PEACH COBBLER BAKE OFF! 3:25PM
BUS DEPARTS WILLIAM A. HARRIS GARDEN @ 5 PM
