More Gardens!

Harlem Under Siege! Two Community Gardens. One completely razed, the other partially destroyed, stopped by police - for now!
This is in complete disregard of the law set for these GreenThumb gardens.

Press Conference Monday Afternoon 2pm: at the Pueblo Unido community garden (Madison btw 111th & 110th Streets) Visit All day Monday.

Urgent calls:

1. The Mayor! 311 - Preserve all endangered community gardens in Harlem and city wide!

How can you help?

Call the Mayor at 311 and ask that
1- Community gardens are included in the final plans
2- Include 50% low income and 30% middle income units in construction
3- Insist that the developers meet with affected community groups and meet their needs

New York State Office of Community Gardens

The NYCCGC committee has been working with a larger group, including More Gardens!, Just Food and The Hunger Action Network of NYS, to reactivate the New York State Office of Community Gardens and to strengthen community gardens statewide.
Committee members recently visited Albany to ask State Senate and Assembly members to renew funding for the office.

Spring is almost upon us. Many oopurtunities to help community gardens across the city. Help is needed in many ways for endangered community gardens as well as "permanent" ones.

A Time to Mourn, a Time to Leap By BERNICE YEUNG Published: March 18, 2007 ON Wednesday night, one week after the fire that claimed 10 lives in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, and less than a mile east of the house on Woodycrest Avenue that had burned, nearly two dozen people gathered in a community garden at dusk to light a more healing flame.

South Bronx United Garden map of Melrose area endangered, bulldozed and preserved community gardens