Please join us at our monthly general meetings this summer! We meet every third Thursday, and during the summer, we follow our tradition of meeting in the gardens. General meetings are a great space to hear from fellow gardeners, get news about garden issues and events around the city, and more.
JUNE
Thursday, June 19, 6:30pm
Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden
219 West 122nd Street
Manhattan
About the garden:
Founded in 1985 on a treeless, rubble-strewn lot, the Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden originally occupied twice the space it now inhabits. Over the years it has weathered many struggles and welcomed many triumphs. It has all been hard, hard work, but labor well worth the effort. With the help of neighborhood youths, Mr. Joseph Wilson, Cynthia Nibbelink Worley, and Haja Worley founded the garden. Over the years, many, many others have contributed to make the Garden—while always a work-in-progress—what it is today. We are pleased that in addition to being a peaceful green oasis in the midst of the “concrete jungle,” the Wilson garden is a place where people of all ages, ethnicities, and genders come together for concerts, educational programs, reading groups, and more. We’ve come a long, long way. We are deeply grateful to all those organizations and individuals who have helped us come this far, not only, but who have seen the enormous value of the “urban forest.” Throughout this time, our organization—Project Harmony, Inc. has sought to help the community in numerous ways: self-help programs; economic development; environmental education; tutoring underserved youth, tree-pruning & urban forestry projects, and more.
JULY
Thursday, July 17, 6:30pm
6BC Botanical Garden
6th Street between Avenues B & C
Manhattan
About the garden:
Our name --6BC--tells you where we are: on 6th Street in Manhattan's lively East Village, between Avenues B and C. But there's more to it:
'B' for Botanical
We call it a botanical garden because that's the traditional name for a garden where visitors come to learn about lots of plants from lots of places. Our garden includes hundreds of plants, native plants as well as many that were immigrants to New York-- and that makes our garden a lot like our community.
'C' for Community
Unlike many other botanical gardens, 6BC is also a community garden: East Villagers, all volunteers, started building it on a rubble-strewn empty lot in the early 1980s.
Want to host a NYCCGC General Meeting in your garden? We are looking for additional July locations, as well as September locations. Let us know at united(at)nyccgc.org!
