Please be advised that the Committee on Parks and Recreation will hold a hearing on January 27, 2021 at 1:00pm, virtually via Zoom-Webinar regarding “The State of Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture and Int. No. 1059 A Local Law in relation…
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From the Ground Up: A Petition to Protect New York City’s Community Gardens
Together with @Earthjustice & over 50 orgs, we petition NYC to protect our cherished community gardens. As gardens offer access to greenspaces for our communities & ecosystem benefits including flood mitigation gardens deserve strong protections. https://earthjustice.org/features/petition-protect-new-york-city-community-gardens
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The New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) asks you to join us and support our efforts to correct the GreenThumb License Agreement. We have been trying to bring the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Mayor’s Office, and the…
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City could lose nearly 100 community gardens over contract dispute, Brookyn Daily Eagle
"Roughly 100 community gardens on city-owned land are in danger of closing or relocating due to a new licensing agreement from the Parks Department that gardeners are calling unfair and overly onerous."
License Negotiations Continue following the Rally for a Fair License
NYCCGC and our electeds officials continue talks with GreenThumb and City legal to correct flaws in the license. At a City Council hearing on September 16th, Assistant Commissioner for Community Outreach and Partnership Development Sam Biederman testified that Parks is…
Rally for Community Gardens on Sept 19
The City is putting pressure on gardeners to sign an onerous agreement. They are threatening groups that have been voluntarily gardening for more than 30 years. This is unconscionable. Once again, we urge you not to sign this license. We…
New Date for Rally to Celebrate Community Gardens at City Hall: 9/19
GreenThumb has extended the deadline to sign the new garden license agreement. The new deadline is Friday, September 20. NYCCGC continues to urge gardens to not sign the license. More than half the community gardens in New York City have…
Community Garden License Deadline Extended for 30 Days
We are pleased that GreenThumb has extended the license agreement deadline to September 20. We hope to continue negotiating in good faith. We all love our gardens and want to continue to have a good relationship with GreenThumb and the…
Update: Some Progress on the New License Terms
NYCCGC met with the Parks Department and GreenThumb in our continuing effort to discuss the issues that gardeners have with the new license agreement. Some progress has been made: Gardeners will once again have the option of allowing dogs into…
NYCCGC Calls on Parks to Make the New Licenses Mutually Beneficial to the City and Community Gardeners
GreenThumb is pressuring community gardens to sign a 4-year license agreement that is not acceptable to most gardeners. Less than half of the City’s 550 gardens have signed the license. We continue to ask you to stand in solidarity and…