Urban Meadow Membership Meeting - 4/6/14

You know Spring is in full swing when it is time to sign up or renew your membership at our local Urban Meadow.

As always, the Urban Meadow provides a peaceful and enjoyable spot in our community. But joining gives you the opportunity to help dig in, beautify and maintain a gem in our neighborhood. Membership is a paltry $25/year per household and membership requires a monthly gardening committment as well as a few other various requirements to keep the meadow functioning.

According to their website - two opportunities to renew or join are offered below:

The First Spring Membership meeting: Sunday, April 6, 1 PM - The House of Pizza and Calzone, 132 Union Street bet. Hicks and Columbia

The First Spring Garden Clean Up will be Sunday, April 13 10 AM-12 PM at the Urban Meadow (President St at Van Brunt) - there will be another meeting and orientation after the clean up from 12:30-1:30.

More info on how to join the Urban Meadow and membership committments can be found here.

Give Our Columbia Street Trees Some Love

Columbia Street tree mulching flyer

Get together with neighbors on Saturday, June 14 for a tree-mulching party, sponsored by the Parks Department. Work will be done from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., starting at the corner of Columbia and Woodhull, and hey, free coffee and donuts. Ask for Wylie!

For more info email wylie.goodman [at] parks.nyc.gov. 

Community Gardening Anyone?

Photo by Sael Ahrt

Spring has already sprung but it isn't too late to join a local community garden. Here are two ways to sign up for a piece of soil or just become a member....

THE SUMMIT STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN

According to their bulletin board the next meeting and work day is Sunday June 9th at 11am and their meeting poster says that anyone wishing to be a member can attend the meeting and sign up on the spot afterwards. Here are links to their blog and facebook page.

THE BACKYARD COMMUNITY GARDEN

Photo by Susan Egan (http://seganimages.com)

The Backyard Community Garden is actively soliciting for new members for empty plots. Members requirements and sign up info can be requested currently from Tom Kerr (347) 661-9728 - Garden membership coordinator. One of their members has set up a lovely blog and they hope to increase membership this year.

We truly have so much green space in this neighborhood compared to other parts of NYC - so get out there and 

ENJOY!!

Worm Festival at South Brooklyn Children's Garden

Come one, come all to the Worm Festival on Saturday, April 20th at the new South Brooklyn Children's Garden on the corner of Columbia Street and Sackett Street. Bring your compost-able items to feed to the "wormies" and enjoy the festivities:


Activities will include:
• Arts& crafts activities for kids
• Music provided by The Dads Beats- with songs about worms and gardens!
• Compost drop off
• Games
• Bake sale and lunch
• Book reading – worm-related books will be read to the kids
• Raffle

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Summit Street Garden Meeting this Sunday

Interested members and current members are invited to attend a Summit Street Community Garden meeting this Sunday morning. The meeting itself will last about 60 minutes, followed by at least an hour of workday for anyone interested. Anyone who wishes to be a member should attend the entire meeting and will get a walkthrough at the end. Happy gardening!


Sunday, April 01, 2012 11:30AM
Summit Garden, Corner of Summit St and Columbia St

Urban Meadow Planning Meeting

The Urban Meadow community garden is holding its first planning and membership meeting of the year. Renew memberships or join, get information about the season, help plan events and activities.


The Urban Meadow, on the corner of President and Van Brunt, hosts lots of fun events like jazz concerts, yoga classes, and Easter egg hunts. It's the backyard you always wish you had.

Event: Planning/Membership Meeting for the Urban Meadow Community Garden
Host: Urban Meadow coordinators
Time: Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:00PM
Location: back room of the House of Pizza and Calzone, 132 Union Street.

A New Garden on Columbia Street?

Brownstoner reports on a proposal to transform the vacant lot on Columbia and Sackett, next to MikNic.

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/01/columbia-street-residents-looks-to-transform-lot/?stream=true

Support Liberty Green by signing the petition

DISCLAIMER: The text below comes from the Liberty Sunset Garden Center, not WOCS. Please read it and judge for yourself whether it is worth signing. The statement released by the landlord in response can be read here.
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Due to devastating economic instability, Liberty Green NY Inc. can no longer financially afford to remain at its present location on Pier 41 and must vacate on March 31, 2011 or before. It hopes to find a new location so that its remarkable collection of plants, trees and flowers can survive along with its educational and environmental programs.

Friends of Liberty Green NY Inc. and residents of Red Hook and surrounding communities, are asking that Liberty Green NY INC. be granted an extension till May 31, 2011 to find an available and suitable new location where it can continue to serve Red Hook and the Brooklyn community as a whole.

So follow this link to support them.

First Weeding Day at The Meadow: A Success!

Yesterday, Sunday, was our first weeding day at the Urban Meadow. The weather was beautiful, the volunteers were numerous and so were the kids. In two and a half hours we were able to clean out the flower area of all the dead plants leaving room for the young flowers.

Thank you so much for coming out.

However the work is not over. Next week we will be working again marking a path and places for shrubs, and weeding some more. We will be there every Sunday from 10am to 12pm, so don't hesitate to walk over and give us a hand.

Here are some pictures from yesterday:

"Learning at Liberty" Open House this Weekend!

Liberty Sunset Garden will be offering classes and Q&A sessions this Saturday and Sunday in an open house format:

Saturday 10/24 2-5pm
Tropical Plant Q&A with Trisha Mulligan
Trisha will answer questions on bringing the outdoors in: how to prepare your plants for their move inside!

Saturday 10/24 and Sunday 10/25 2-5pm
Irrigation Demo with Jacqui Roytman
Create your own irrigation system! Jacqui will demonstrate sub-irrigation and drip irrigation techniques using recycled plastic bottles.
Plus face painting Saturday and Sunday!

Check out their site for more details

Save your tree until Mulch Fest 2009

On 1/10/09, the NYC Dept. of Sanitation will be holding Mulch Fests (or "treecylcing" events) at various locations throughout Brooklyn, where they will be collecting Christmas trees for the purpose of converting them to mulch. This mulch will then be used around NYC for parks, trees, etc. In some locations, you can even watch the conversion live!

This is definitely the best way to go for the environment. Why not hold onto that tree just a little bit longer and put it to use for the environment and city residents, instead of sending it to a landfill?

The nearest locations for this neighborhood will be:
Amazing Garden
Cobble Hill Park
Coffey Park

Click this link for details

This just in: Amazing Garden will actually be open every day from today (1/3/09) through next weekend for people to drop off trees. Now there are no excuses.

Bulb Class at the Gowanus Nursery - Sat, Oct 18 - 10am

As you all know, this is the time to put those bulb underground and our local nursery is offering to teach you all about it:
Check out http://www.gowanusnursery.com for more information about the Gowanus Nursery.