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New York Places, Organizations, Events

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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

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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...

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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)

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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

Garden Design

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...