GreenThumb 2017 Summer Program Guide June • July • August Marilyn Smalls tending her plot at Surfside Community Garden. Photo by Ijendu Obasi / GreenThumb Join the conversation online by following GreenThumb on: FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM facebook.com/GreenThumbNYC instagram.com/greenthumbgrows TWITTER FLICKR All GreenThumb twitter.com/greenthumbgrows flickr.com/groups/greenthumbnyc workshops are free and open TUMBLR #greenthumbgrows to the public. greenthumbgrows.tumblr.com @greenthumbgrows JUNE Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun EVENT CALENDAR 1 2 3 4 GreenThumb Workshops & Events Greening Partners 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 JUNE Planting Herbs for Health Replenishing your Soil and Wellness Tuesday, July 18 Tuesday, June 6 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 6:30 p.m–8:00 p.m. BROOKLYN | p. 12 BROOKLYN | p. 3 Carpentry 101 A Gardener’s Yoga Thursday, July 20 Thursday, June 8 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. BRONX | p. 12 QUEENS | p. 3 Vegetable Gardening: Crop Planning for The Wonderful World of Maximizing Harvest Caribbean Vegetables Saturday, July 22 26 27 28 29 30 Saturday, June 10 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MANHATTAN | p. 12 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. BROOKLYN | p. 3 Keeping Chickens Part 1: Spring and Summer (Bronx) Living Soil: Soil Fertility for Saturday, July 22 Crop Production 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. JULY Saturday, June 10 BRONX | p. 12 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun STATEN ISLAND | p. 3 Natural Insect Repellent Candles Tuesday, July 25 Plants that Take the Heat 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. 1 2 Tuesday, June 13 MANHATTAN | p. 13 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. BROOKLYN | p. 3 Growing Plants for Dye Thursday, July 27 Making Mosaics 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Wednesday, June 14 BROOKLYN | p. 13 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. MANHATTAN | p. 4 Feral Cat Caretaker Certificate Saturday, July 29 Bronx Food and Farm Tour 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Saturday, June 17 MANHATTAN | p. 13 10:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. BRONX | p. 4 AUGUST Juneteenth Celebration Signage for Inside the Garden 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Saturday, June 17 Tuesday, August 1 MANHATTAN | p. 5 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. QUEENS | p. 14 Drip Irrigation 101 Thursday, June 22 Sharing our Food Traditions: Canning 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Saturday, August 5 BROOKLYN | p. 5 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. BROOKLYN | p. 14 Building a Brick BBQ Saturday, June 24 Seed Keeping: Storytelling, 31 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Liberation, and How to Save Seeds BRONX | p. 5 Thursday, August 10 5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Attracting Pollinators and BRONX | p. 14 Pest-Controlling Predator Insects with Native Plants Bronx Food and Farm Tour Tuesday, June 27 Saturday, August 12 AUGUST 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. BRONX | p. 5 BRONX | p. 4 Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Keeping Chickens Part 1: Living Soil: Supporting Diverse Spring and Summer (Brooklyn) Soil Ecology 1 2 3 4 5 6 Saturday, August 12 Wednesday, June 28 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. STATEN ISLAND | p. 14 BROOKLYN | p. 6 Toys from Twigs 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 JULY Wednesday, August 16 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Living Soil: Compost Tea for IPM MANHATTAN | p. 15 Saturday, July 8 11:00 a.m.–Noon Sharing our Farm Traditions: Willie Morgan 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 STATEN ISLAND | p. 11 Saturday, August 19 Composting: What’s Going 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. on Inside my Bin? MANHATTAN | p. 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Wednesday, July 12 Grant-Writing 101 with Partnerships for 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Parks and Citizens Committee for NYC MANHATTAN | p. 11 Tuesday, August 22 Herbal Teas Using Garden Herbs 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 13 MANHATTAN p. 15 28 29 30 31 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Sowing Late Summer and Fall Crops BROOKLYN | p. 12 Thursday, August 24 Bronx Food and Farm Tour 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 15 BRONX | p. 15 9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. 2 BRONX | p. 4 Planting Herbs for Health Living Soil: Soil Fertility and Wellness for Crop Production Janiele Lewis, Intergenerational WELLth Educator, Coach, NYC Compost Project hosted by Snug Harbor and Community Chef, and GreenThumb Learn how to nourish the soil to support plants in Curious about how you can help your community developing our favorite fruiting crops and make this members naturally increase their resilience to summer’s harvest the best you’ve ever had! Register at heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other chronic snug-harbor.org/compost/ conditions…with what you grow? Then join us, as we explore how to simply and strategically plan and plant Saturday, June 10 / 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. medicinal herbs and foods, which support our best STATEN ISLAND health and satisfy our taste for diversity! Snug Harbor Compost Demonstration Site Tuesday, June 6 / 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. For directions visit BROOKLYN snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/ Ashford Learning Garden, 341 Ashford St. The Compost Demonstration Site is #23 on the map. Train: C to Shepherd Ave. Train: To get to the Staten Island Ferry, take 1 to South Bus: B14 to Sutter Ave./Warwick St., Q24 to Atlantic Ferry, 4/5 to Bowling Green, R to Whitehall Ave./Warwick St. Bus: S40 at Gate D to Snug Harbor/Richmond Terrace/ Sailors S H Gate A Gardener’s Yoga Onika Abraham, Director of Farm School NYC, and GreenThumb Plants that Take the Heat Repetitive gardening movements often cause painful Brooklyn Botanic Garden knee joints and sore back muscles. Founded by a farmer Whether you want a lively tree bed, a bodacious and Kripalu-trained yoga instructor, A Gardener’s Yoga window box, or a colorful front yard, it helps to use classes are for gardeners, not gurus. This class will drought- and heat-tolerant plants. We’ll share some soothe, strengthen and connect students with their tough beauties and water-wise tips to stop your intention to grow. We will have a limited number of mats garden from wilting this summer. available so please bring your own if you can. Pre-registration required at classes.bbg.org/ Este taller se ofrecerá con traducción al Español. Tuesday, June 13 / 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Thursday, June 8 / 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. BROOKLYN QUEENS Brooklyn Botanic Garden Two Coves Community Garden 1000 Washington Ave. 11–01 30th Ave. Train: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway Brooklyn Museum, Train: N/W to 30th Ave. Bus: Q19 to Main Ave./Astoria Blvd., Q18/Q19/Q102/Q103 S to Botanic Garden, 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Ave. to 8th St./Astoria Blvd. Bus: B48 to Washington Ave./Montgomery St. The Wonderful World of Caribbean Vegetables Marlene Wilks, GreenThumb community gardener at New Vision Garden, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden Bitter melon, callaloo, Malabar spinach, and dasheen are familiar to many Brooklyn gardeners, yet a mystery to some. Learn hands-on how to source, grow, and use a variety of amazing Caribbean veggies to add a taste of the Islands to your garden. Pre-registration required at classes.bbg.org/ Saturday, June 10 / 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Red okra grows at Taqwa Community Farm in the Bronx. BROOKLYN Photo by GreenThumb Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1000 Washington Ave. Train: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway Brooklyn Museum, S to Botanic Garden, 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Ave. Bus: B48 to Washington Ave./Montgomery St. 3 Bronx Food and Farms Walking Tours Bronx Green-Up/The New York Botanical Garden Crotona/Belmont Community Gardens Tour Tour Guide: Aleyna Rodriguez, Bronx Gardener and Organizer Saturday, June 17 / 10:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Making Mosaics workshop last summer at Dias y Flores Community Garden in Meet the tour guide at 10:00 a.m. at West Farms Manhattan. This year we’ll make mosaic paver stones. Photo by GreenThumb Square and East Tremont Avenue (right beneath the West Farms Square train stop off the 2 and 5 train). Making Mosaics Tour leaves promptly at 10:30 a.m. Returns at 2:30 p.m. Barbara Cahn, community gardener at LaGuardia Corner The Crotona/Belmont neighborhood, home to the La Gardens, and GreenThumb Familia Verde Coalition, a network of 5 community Enhance your garden’s character by creating unique gardens—including The Garden of Youth and Garden and colorful mosaic stepping stones. We will use of Happiness—which operates a Tuesday farmers’ recycled tiles, ceramics, and glass. Feel free to bring market, is home to a very diverse group of farmers your own tiles, take-out containers for shaping the and entrepreneurs. stones, friends, family, and creative ideas! Wednesday, June 14 / 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. South Bronx Tour MANHATTAN Tour Guide: Sheryll Durrant, Garden Manager for Kelly LaGuardia Corner Community Garden Street Garden 511 LaGuardia Place Train: A/B/C/D/E/F/M to W.