. Garbage Bags, Gloves, Hoses, Shovels, Pruners, Rakes EZ Reachers Hoses, Adapters . Pathmark Event Vouchers .

. Street Street Care Kits .

Please note that garden members must attend workshops to receive supplies. All workshops are free and open to the public, with no pre-registration (unless otherwise noted).

Workshops are rain or shine, cancelled only in the event of lightning or other dangerous conditions. All supplies are for registered gardens only and are available first come, first served, while supplies last.

Does your garden need any of the following supplies? Look inside for details...

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While the city was inundated with snow and ice storms this past winter, community gardeners were hard at work. GreenThumb, in collaboration with Citizens Committee and Just Food, hosted our first Community Organizing Institute. The institute is a three-part series focused on developing a comprehensive toolkit for forming organizational structures, developing effective campaigns and engaging municipal agencies, elected officials and community-based organizations. At the end of the series, gardeners were awarded a certification of completion and walked away with a binder full of resources, armed with a new set of tools and an energized attitude. We want to thank Arif Ullah, Karen Washington, Yonnette Fleming and Owen Taylor for their amazing facilitation of the series. We hope to present this series again!

GreenThumb 2011 Summer Program Guide

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Summer Supply GiveawayGreenThumb Staff

Pick up basic summer gardening and maintenance supplies for your garden. One pick-up per garden group.If you can, please carpool with other garden groups that may not have access to transportation.

Call GreenThumb if you need to the contact information of other gardeners near you.

Supplies: Garbage Bags, Gloves, Hoses, Shovels, Pruners, Rakes, EZ Reachers, Hoses and Adapters

Saturday, June 4 10am - 1pmQUEENSGreenThumb/LRP CompoundQueens Plaza South at 10th Street

Remember to check MTA weekend work schedules

By SubwayF TRAIN: to 21st St./Queensbridge. Walk south on 21st St. towards Queens Plaza South. Make right onto QPS. Walk 4 blocks to 10th St. Compound on your right.

N, 7 TRAINS: to Queensboro Plaza/Bridge Plaza. Walk along Queens Plaza South, towards the East River, to 10th St. Compound is on your right.

By BusQ19A, Q32, Q60, Q66, Q101, Q101R, Q102 and Q103 all run along or intersect with Queens Plaza South (QPS). Exit closest to 10th St. and QPS. Compound is across from 10th St.

By CarFROM MANHATTAN & THE BRONX: Take FDR to 61st St exit. Follow signs to Queensboro Bridge. Staying in the right-hand lane of the bridge, exit to local streets. Continue straight to Northern Blvd/Jackson Avenue intersection. Make a right onto Jackson Ave (Northern Blvd). Make a right onto 21st St. and then a left onto Queens Plaza South (QPS). Continue on QPS until 10th St. Compound is on your right, across from 10th St.

FROM BROOKLYN, QUEENS & STATEN ISLAND: Take the BQE to the McGuiness Blvd exit. Make a left onto McGuiness Blvd. Continue straight into Queens (over the Pulaski Skyway Bridge). McGuiness Blvd becomes 11th St. Stay straight on 11th St. Make left onto Queens Plaza South. Go 1 block to 10th St. Compound is on your right.

Directions to the GreenThumb/LRP Compound

Picking up Supplies for Other Garden GroupsWhen attending a GreenThumb giveaway, you are only eligible to pick up materials for your garden group, unless arrangments are made with the office. Without prior notice, Green-Thumb can not provide materials to garden members who are there to pick up for other groups.

Hosting Events & Boosting MembershipGloria Feliciano & Carolyn McCrory, Just Food trainers

Get more people in your garden and have fun at the same time. Join this interactive discussion with Just Food trainers and workshop attendees about successful and exciting ways to get neighbors through your garden gates. This workshop is presented in collaboration with Just Food's City Farms program. This workshop is bilingual.

¿Quiere más personas de su vecinario en su jardín? ¡Formadores de Just Food y jardineros comunitarios van a compartir unas maneras exitosas y divertidas para invitar a sus vecinos a su jardín! Este taller se presenta en colaboración con el programa de City Farms de Just Food. También, este taller va a ser presentado en Español.

Supplies: Pathmark Vouchers

Thursday, June 9 5:30pm - 7pmBRONXEl Flamboyan Community GardenTinton Ave at E. 150th St.

Bus: BX19, BX17 to 149 St/Union Ave.Train: 2, 5, to Jackson Ave; 6 to 149th St.

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Learn to grow more food!Attend a City Farms workshop!For more infromation:www.justfood.org/cityfarms/workshopsOr contact Owen:212-645-9880 x229, owen@justfood.org

Sell your garden vegetables at a farmers market!Call Nadia for details about starting or joining markets: (212) 645-9880 x228, nadia@justfood.org

Join the City Farming NYC Meetup!Find out about upcoming workshops and events, post on a discussion board, and answer each others’ questions about farming in NYC. http://www.meetup.com/City-Farming-NYC/

JUST FOOD is a NYC based non-profit working to grow fresh, locally-grown food in the neighborhoods of NYC

1155 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd FlNew York, NY 10036Tel: (212)645-9880 www.justfood.org

BUGs in the NewsIn observance of Black History Month, the Council of the City of New York proudly hon-ored the Black Urban Growers (BUGs), on Wednesday March 2nd, 2011. Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Member Letitia James presented BUGs with a proclamation. BUGs are the lead planners of the Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference www.blackfarm-ersconf.org. The inaugural conference was held on November 19-21, 2010 at Brooklyn College, on the very day that the Black Farmers Pigford Settlement case was signed by President Barack Obama. Over 500 important stakeholders attended from all over the country as well as Toronto, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico to participate in discussions, workshops, and strategy development to forge food, farming and policy solutions for the Black community. Farmers, gardeners, activists, students, nutritionists and others from across the nation discussed critical issues, including food access and distribution, local food

production and making connections between rural and urban farming. The powerful workshops and forums were very successful in cultivating a greater appreciation for the role we play as stewards of our environment, particularly our shared urban soil that is inextri-cably linked with our City’s history and our future. BUGs is already organizing the second annual conference for later this year. Please stay tuned!

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MillionTreesNYC Stewardship Corps Workshop Seriespresented by GreenThumb

MillionTreesNYC has planted tens of thousands of street trees since its launch. We need your help to keep these trees healthy and green! This summer, GreenThumb will host two different days of tree care workshops at community gardens in the Bronx and the East Village. Each day has two different workshops with a community lunch in between. The following workshops are part of a continued effort to explore the value of street trees in our city and how to care for them. See the workshop descriptions and dates and times below. For more information call (212) 442-8952.

Workshop #1'That Tree Saved My Life' Game Show (11am – 12pm)Compete to win while learning about the many benefits of trees, and leave with all the tools you'll need to care for the street trees in your neighborhood. Bring along friends and fellow gardeners to learn about the MillionTreesNYC Stewardship Corps. Know of a tree you’d like to take care of? Attendees will be able to “adopt” trees that they want to take care of, and become an official member of the Stewardship Corps!

Community Lunch (12-12:45pm)The host garden group will provide a community lunch for workshop attendees in between workshops. Come join us for a relaxing potluck lunch in the garden!

Workshop #2Hands-On Street Tree Care Demo (12:45 – 2:15pm)Get your hands a little dirty learning how to care for and beautify the street trees on your block. This workshop will cover all the basics: how to improve soil, watering tips, strategies for discouraging litter and pets, safe tree guard design, and planting a street tree bed garden. After the demonstration, you will have a chance for hands-on practice in tree pits in front of the garden. And of course, you'll be able to adopt your own tree to care for.

MillionTreesNYC Stewardship Corps Adopt-a-TreeAdopt a tree in your neighborhood& join the MillionTreesNYC Stewardship Corps!

What does it mean to adopt a tree?By adopting a tree, you or your group pledge to care for specific street tree(s) in your neighborhood. It’s free and easy to sign up, and gives you access to future tree care supplies and opportunities. Connect with other tree stewards throughout the city or strengthen your own neighborhood’s efforts.

Get all the tools you’ll need to care for street trees… The MillionTreesNYC Street Tree Care kit includes watering supplies, cultivator, trowel, gloves, trash bags, the MillionTreesNYC Tree Care Handbook, and an official Stewardship Corps membership card.

Workshop Dates

Saturday, June 25BRONXLas Casitas Community Garden1126 Woodycrest Ave, between E. 166th & E. 167th Sts

Saturday, July 30MANHATTANGreen Oasis Community Garden / Gilbert’s Garden372-382 East 8th St, between Aves C & D

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Hosting Events & Boosting MembershipYonnette Flemming, Just Food Trainer and Hattie Carthan Community Gardener

Get more people in your garden and have fun at the same time. Join this interactive discussion with Just Food trainers and workshop attendees about successful and exciting ways to get neighbors through your garden gates. This workshop is presented in collaboration with Just Food's City Farms program.

Supplies: Pathmark Vouchers

Saturday, August 27 10:30 - 12pmBrooklynHattie Carthan Community Garden363-365 Clifton Place b/t Nostrand & Marcy Aves

Bus: B38 to Lafayette Ave - Marcy AveTrain: G Bedford/Nostrand Aves; A/C to Nostrand Ave

First Annual GreenThumb Fall Seed Swap in Partnership with ENY Farms!

There is no greater expression of self-sufficiency than saving your seeds. Seed swaps are a time honored exercise in knowledge sharing and community building. We at GreenThumb and ENY Farms are excited to host the first annual seed swap this Fall. Please save your seeds from your bountiful and varied harvest this season. Come prepared to talk shop and swap seeds. If you have other farm/garden-related items you want to bring to share/swap, feel free to do so. This will be an opportunity to meet farmers and gardeners from all over the city and share knowledge as well as resources. Please contact Bilen(bilen.berhanu@parks.nyc.gov) for information on how to save seeds and prepare for this swap. Look for the event announcement with details about the date, time and location in the Fall Program guide.

Does your garden grow food? Do you ever wonder how much food your garden grows?How about the whole city?

Find out, enter into a garden supply give away, and give everyone a better understanding of how much NYC community gardens contribute to our local food system!

It's simple and doesn’t cost a dime. Sign up to weigh your harvest and/or to count all the edible plants in your garden. We will use this information to estimate how much food is being grown across our city.

For more info or to sign up:Mara Gittleman: mara@farmingconcrete.com

Kelli Jordan: kelli@farmingconcrete.com (Para Español)

Farming ConcreteC/O Greenthumb

49 Chambers St. Rm 1020New York, NY 10007

908-787-2711

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Greetings fellow GreenThumb Community Gardeners!

This coming September I will begin a two year graduate program in International Agricultural Development at the University of California at Davis. I have lived in Brooklyn all my life and I am going to miss planting garlic, harvesting beans, turning compost in Shiloh Garden, and working with community gardens in your neighborhoods. I am pleased to call myself a part of the GreenThumb family and wherever I go I will represent our organization and outstanding community with pride. I look forward to bringing community gardening forward on national and international scales through scholarship. We the community gardeners are often the researchees, but less frequently the researchers, and by taking an active leadership role in shaping our future we can improve gardens and their capacity for positive change. I hope to do my best in continuing to support New York City’s community and schools gardens from afar, and look forward to visiting with and checking in with you all. I plan to return better prepared and more seasoned in my abilities and approaches to serving the great-est community volunteers in the world. Thank you all for the amazing work you do, and especially for your patience and wisdom.

Rasheed Hislop, City Wide Outreach Coordinator

American Community Gardening Association 32nd Annual National Conference

“Community Gardening Works!”August 18-21, 2011

Columbia University

Keynote Speakers, Workshops , Garden Tours, Networking Events. Film Festival. Gala Dinner & Silent Auction, Garden Bookshop

Register now!$300 Early Bird Registration until June 15th, 2011

(includes ACGA membership)

First 200 registrants receive a free copy of the book “Restorative Commons. Creating Health and Well-being through Urban Landscapes” edited by Lindsay Campbell and Anne Wiesen.

Limited scholarships are available.

Please register atwww.communitygarden.com

Sponsored by:

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Summer Supply GiveawaySaturday, June 4 10am - 1pm QUEENS

Hosting Events & Boosting MembershipThursday, June 9 5:30 - 7pm BRONX

'That Tree Saved My Life' Game Show Saturday, June 25 11am - 12pm BRONX

Hands-On Street Tree Care DemoSaturday, June 25 12:45 - 2:15pm BRONX

'That Tree Saved My Life' Game ShowSaturday, July 30 11am - 12pm MANHATTAN

Hands-On Street Tree Care DemoSaturday, July 30 12:45 - 2:15pm MANHATTAN

ACGA Conference (see page 6)Thursday, August 19 - 21 MANHATTAN

Hosting Events & Boosting MembershipSaturday, August 27 10:30am - 12pm BROOKLYN

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Greening Partners

GreenThumbCity of New York Department of Parks & Recreation49 Chambers Street, Room 1020New York, NY 10007

GreenThumbCity of New York Department of Parks & RecreationMichael R. Bloomberg, MayorAdrian Benepe, Parks CommissionerEdie Stone, Director of GreenThumb

Phone: (212) 788-8070Fax: (212) 788-8052

www.greenthumbnyc.orgwww.nyc.gov/parks

Have you seen our new website?

Check out the new resource section where you can list an event, request a sign and download the new GreenThumb Gardener’s Handbook!

http://www.greenthumbnyc.org/resources.html

Happy Retirement, Assistant Commision Linn! Thanks for your many years of service!