Catch up on the latest about community gardens in the news in our media round-up!
Scroll for On the Radar, Community News, Garden Stories, Reports, and Garden Gifts.
Grant Opportunities
Request for Proposals (RFP): Building Healthy Communities and GreenThumb Growing Food Capacity Deadline: January 13th
Manhattan Cultural Tourism Grant Deadline: January 16th
Capital Funding, Bronx Borough President's Office Deadline: January 16th
Capital Funding, Brooklyn Borough President's Office Deadline: February 5th
Capital Funding, Staten Island Borough President's Office Deadline: February 10th
Capital Funding, Manhattan Borough President's Office Deadline: February 14th
Capital Funding, Queens Borough President's Office Deadline: February 14th
On the Radar
Gardeners plant themselves at Brownsville lot to protest construction plans that would dig their urban farm out
NY Daily News, 12/17/16
$32.4M Elmhurst Library Finally Reopens After Yearslong Construction
DNAInfo, 12/14/16
Brownsville Residents Fight To Save Community Farm: ‘We Are Not Going To Give It Up So Easily’
CBS Local, 12/9/16
Anger Over Mayor’s Reaction to Chinatown Rezoning Push
City Limits, 12/8/16
Hundreds Protest Councilwoman Margaret Chin’s Refusal to Save the Elizabeth Street Garden
Bowery Boogie, 12/8/16
Gardeners really give it to mayor — an invite
The Villager, 12/1/16
Community News
Community Gardens Could Save LES From Flooding Under $2M Plan
DNAInfo, 12/21/16
Mapping Tool Aims to Keep Public Spaces Public
Next City, 12/21/16
Councilmember Barron and Activists Rally to Save Brooklyn Farm
Black Star News, 12/16/16
Keep Hive Alive! Gardners stuck on Saving Bees
The Villager, 12/15/16
Brooklyn Compost Collecting Service Expands to Bed-Stuy
DNAInfo, 12/6/16
City-Owned and Leased Property Database Launched
City Land, 12/5/16
New York City Mapped All of its Trees and Calculated the Economic Benefits of Every Single One
Arch Daily, 11/28/16
Garden Stories
Twelve Organizations Promoting Urban Agriculture around the World
Food Tank, 12/18/16
New York's Necessary New AIDS Memorial
The New Yorker, 12/8/16
These Black Kids Rapping About Urban Farming Is The Dopest Thing You’ll See All Week
Watch the Yard, 12/1/16
Reports
Gardens Rising: Lower East Side Community Gardens Green Infrastructure Feasibility Study
New York City Community Garden Coalition, 12/14/16
PPS Releases New Report, “The Case for Healthy Places: Improving Health through Placemaking”
Project for Public Spaces, 12/8/16
Cultivating Development: Trends and Opportunities at the Intersection of Food and Real Estate
Urban Land Institute, 11/28/16
Garden Gifts
19 books to help children find hope and strength in stressful times: A librarian’s list
Washington Post, 12/12/16
Creating an Atlas of Overlooked Cartography for New York City
Hyperallergic, 12/15/16
