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New York Places, Organizations, Events
Places Parks Tompkins Sq. Park southwest corner - managed by Friends of Tompkins Square Park(vol) Inwood Hill Swindler Cove Pelham Bay Park Alley Park Marine Park(vol) Forest Park Brower Park - monarch garden Prospect Park Battery Park - food fo...
Online resources
General community gardening skills: The GreenThumb website provides online resources and a variety of workshops on skills ranging from carpentry to garden design. https://www.nycgovparks.org/greenthumb/resources Taking care of tree beds: The Street Tree Ca...
Library
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall KimmererThe Serviceberry Robin Wall Kimmerer Free the Land Audrea LimAs Long as Grass Grows Dina Gilio-WhitakerPlanting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes Thomas Rainer & Cl...
Tree ID (Summer and Winter)
Books Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast by Michael Wojtech Identifying Trees of the East: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America by Michael D. Williams Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Michael A Dirr Zines (available in garden librar...
How to Read a Plot
Introduction You're walking around the city and you encounter some plants - maybe a park, a community garden, a street tree, abandoned lot, maybe a weed growing in a sidewalk crack. There are maybe some animals and insects as well. What sorts of plants are the...