For Immediate Release March 16, 2015 For More Info: Mark Dunlea 518 860-3725 Zita Allen 917-309-2210 Hundreds of Climate Labor & Community Activists Gather to Plan Efforts to Press City Officials to Pass Strong Climate, Environmental Legislation Hundreds of labor, climate…
Category: NYCCGC News
2015 Board Elections
Join us on Thursday for our monthly general meeting and Board Elections. We have some big changes to announce…Karen Washington will be leaving our board (after nearly 20 years of leadership) to pursue her dream of farming! We’re so excited…
YOU’RE INVITED!
SAVE THE DATE NYCCGC was founded in 1996, as the only organization by and for community gardeners. The NYCCGC mission is to promote the preservation, creation, and empowerment of community gardens through education, advocacy, and grassroots organizing. We are excited…
Ray Figueroa to Speak at Our City, Our Climate
Community gardens are at the front and center of the People’s Climate Movement. We are an important solution to climate change. Join us on the 16th!
Statement from Black Urban Growers
A belated re-posting from Black Urban Growers (BUGS): PRESS RELEASE Contact: Karen Washington, BUGs Council Member (347) 979-7127 info@blackfarmersconf.org http://www.blackfarmersconf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2015 Black Urban Growers Joins Fight to Save NYC Community Gardens Black Urban Growers…
Upcoming Workshops for Measuring Good Things in your Garden
D Rooney and Sheryll Durrant, fellows at the Design Trust for Public Space, will be leading a series of workshops on the Farming Concrete (aka Five Borough Farm) Toolkit for measuring the good things happening in your garden. Want to…
February General Meeting
Our next general meeting will be this Thursday, 2/19, at 6:30pm. Please join us to discuss the status of the threatened HPD community gardens and our upcoming elections. As our guest speaker, Steven Rosenberg, Executive Director of the Scenic Hudson…
New York Times HPD/Community Garden Article
IN COMMUNITY GARDENS, A NEW WEED? New York Times FEB. 11, 2015 By MICHAEL TORTORELLO The trouble started with an R.F.Q: a “request for qualifications” in the bloodless shorthand of city government. But that’s not quite right. The shot…
Thank you for a successful rally! Keep up the momentum
About 150 people assembled yesterday on the steps of City Hall with kindred New Yorkers, citizens, grassroots organizations, and community leaders, aligned in solidarity with our vision and our stance. Among the local elected representatives who spoke on our behalf…
For Immediate Release: Rally to Save Community Gardens
Contact: Aziz Dehkan, aziz@nyccgc.org, 973.222.5413 On Tuesday, February 10th, at 9 A.M. the NYCCGC, community members, partnering housing organizations, and various elected representatives will be rallying on the steps of city hall to protest the lack of transparency and community involvement…