Meeting notes summary and resources for gardeners
See complete notes here
- Gardeners from flooded gardens in Coney Island and the Lower East Side came to share stories and voice their concerns and needs
- Lots of fallen trees
- Need help borrowing tools and coordinating volunteers
- Many structures need to be rebuilt
- Edie and Carolin from GreenThumb (GT) were present
- has a crew running on 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week to deal with all the trees that have fallen. The hurricane claimed more than 40,000 trees in the parks.
- Sending clean up crews to remove sand and debris from Coney Island gardens
- Gardens with major fallen trees can contact Shawn Spencer directly and GT will send in a crew to deal with the issue
- GT is currently not repairing structures right now (casitas, gazebos, etc.), first focusing on the trees. If GT gets additional funds, it may be able to replace things that are lost or damaged.
- For specific storm-related garden issues you can reach out to Edie directly, or contact your borough’s outreach coordinator
- Edie hopes there is sufficient soil to give away. On Dec 1st there will be a soil give-away. 40 bags of soil per garden.
- Gerard Lordahl from GrowNYC was present
- GrowNYC has been facilitating donations of bags of food from Greenmarkets
- GrowNYC can help out in the clean-up by offering to lend out wheel barrels, tool boxes, giving out gloves, plastic buckets.
- Unfortunately, we can’t lend out power tools. Those have to be operated by our staff. (Same w/ GT)
- Borrow tools from the Grow Truck
- For assistance contact Gerard at GrowNYC or call at 212 227-2888
- TreesNYC has a lot of trees they are willing to give to gardeners.
- Gerard said that for about $20 per cubic yard, gardeners can have soil delivered – comes out to $800 per truck including delivery. Make sure the truck can back up into the garden to make the delivery in the garden.
Clean up at Campos Garden
Volunteer Day at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden
Come out this weekend and next weekend to get this garden back up on its feet!
Location: La Plaza Cultural Community Garden. SW corner of East 9th street and Avenue C.
Dates: Saturdays, November 24th and December 1st 2012
Time: 10am - 5pm - volunteers can stay any part of that time frame.
Work: 11/24: raking leaves, picking up debris, weeding flooded garden beds, building leaf bin, draining the pond.
12/1 - continuing unfinished work from 11/24 plus replacing soil in damaged beds, replacing sand in kids sandbox.
Contact: Frances Anderson: 917-609-6050, msfrancesa (@) gmail (dot) com
Changes to upcoming monthly meetings
To continue the tradition of taking the monthly meetings on the road in the summer, NYCCGC will now start monthly meetings simultaneously in every boroughs at the same time in an attempt to reach out to more gardeners. Stay tuned for more details. Meetings will still be held on the third Thursday of every month.
Changes to NYCCGC membership structures
Individual membership is now on a sliding scale from $1 on up, with a recommended $15. Garden membership is a recommended $30 or 4 hours of volunteer time. Volunteerism will be on a case-by-case basis. The NYCCGC needs help reaching out to more gardens, coordinating and managing the forum, etc. The advantage of garden membership is that every member of a garden that becomes a member of the NYCCGG, complete with voting privileges. Our website will be updated soon to reflect these changes.
