Happy New Year!
NYCCGC has made some serious New Years resolutions, including a membership overhaul and decentralized meetings, so that we can focus on building a base of committed community gardeners. Stay tuned for more details on how you can become a member of NYCCGC and help us support the preservation of community gardens in New York City. We're also starting to plan our annual forum - this year will focus on the mayoral candidates and their commitments to our gardens. To get involved in planning the forum, see below. All are welcome!
Next Thursday's general meeting will happen in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx simultaneously. Same agenda, multiple locations, all on January 17 at 6:30pm. Please attend whichever is most convenient for you, and spread word to fellow garden members.
Manhattan:
Neighborhood Preservation Center
232 E. 11th Street
Bronx
Berger Jr. High School
Brook Avenue btw 141 & 142 Street (enter on Brook Avenue)
Brooklyn
Offices of Brooklyn Queens Land Trust
677 Lafayette Avenue (at Marcy)
G train to Bedford Nostrand or #38 bus
Hope to see you there!
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Planning the Annual Forum - JOIN US!
Please join NYCCGC's Planning meeting on Thursday January 24rd, 6 PM, Location TBA
"Stand for Our Land!" Mayoral Forum & Grassroots Activism Growing food and justice for this election year and beyond
Cooper Union Great Hall, April 27th 2013
Please join the forum planning group and be a part of healing of our neighborhoods. This is your opportunity to shape the conversation around the future of our gardens - come to the planning meeting and pitch in. We plan to use our forum to inspire a grassroots movement to preserve, enrich and increase our community gardens and open public spaces where we grow healthy food, provide places for rooted education, celebrate our cultural diversity, nurture our communities and much much more.
The forum will serve as a place for mayoral candidates to speak to community gardeners and have their land preservation policy go on record. Our attendance goal for this forum is +750 community gardeners and allies. We will host workshops to increase grassroots political empowerment in our neighborhoods including: voter registration drive, electing our own grassroots representatives, participatory budgeting, defending community gardens by direct action and building local coalitions, healing through our community gardens, the rights of youth and the voices of children in our community gardens, land use and hunger issues, and more. We will also develop a “Where they Stand” document recording candidates positions on community garden and distribute this document, via email and postal service, to 25,000 voters in NYC. Get involved on January 24rd!
"I'm a big believer in community gardens, both because of their beauty
and for their access to providing fresh fruits and vegetables to so
many communities across this nation and the world." - Michelle Obama to the USDA
