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25
Mar
New York, NY 10451 United States
Facilitating a garden can be thankless and invisible work that falls on just a few people. It’s also crucial to a healthy community project. In this workshop, you will learn some strategies to build on the strengths of your membership so that facilitation becomes shared. We will also have time to troubleshoot your facilitation challenges, whether its people who talk a long time during meetings or how to make sure the shoveling happens in the winter. Check out our Community Governance…
12
Mar
New York, NY 10027 United States
As more and more communities of color are returning to their agricultural roots, urban farming is becoming an increasingly popular and viable low cost alternative for residents to feed themselves and their families with healthy locally grown produce. Once forgotten by city government, these decades long vacant lots have now become green oases improving the appearance and quality of life on the blocks that they occupy; but in NYC and cities across the country, they are now in the sights…
12
Mar
New York, NY 10027 United States
Community land stewards from across the boroughs will present their land access struggles and successes. You will learn about farms and gardens that *need our help now* and those that have been ~recently permanently preserved~ via land trusts or conveyance to the NYC Parks Department from their stewards. This session is organized and facilitated by 596 Acres, NYC’s Community Land Access Advocates. 596 Acres has facilitated the creation of 39 new and community growing spaces in NYC since 2011. It played…
25
Feb
Staten Island, NY 10301 United States
Staten Island community gardeners, and aspiring community gardens! Come connect with one another and learn everything you need to make your dreams happen. The NYC Compost Project hosted by Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden and GreenThumb have partnered to provide a forum for organizations who support gardens to introduce themselves and provide information. Whether you’re looking to join or start a community garden or are a member of an existing garden looking for support, this event is for you.…
02
Feb
New York, NY 10038 United States
NEXT THURSDAY, February 2 from 6pm to 8:30pm, join together to build on organizing that led the City to request responses from community land trusts (CLTs) focused on housing at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, 123 William St, Manhattan, 16th floor. By putting land into community ownership, a CLT can ensure community control for the long haul and provide truly affordable housing and other spaces. We will get to know one another, identify strengths and gaps in…
11
Jan
New York,
Join us at City Hall to demand changes in the New York City tax lien sale! We will be asking for two key changes to be made to the bill: adding effective protections for Not for Profit & Faith-Based Organizations an end to the City giving away its leverage over neglected and abandoned properties in our neighborhoods by selling unpaid tax debt to a private speculative trust Here is some background: “For Sale: Nonprofits,” http://urbanomnibus.net/2016/11/for-sale-nonprofits/ “Take Community Property and Vacant…
11
Jan
New York, 10007
The City will hold a final disposition hearing about the give-away of over a dozen neglected public lots in Brownsville on Wednesday, January 11 at 10am at the Municipal Building at 1 Center Street. The give-away of these lots will add 11 to 84 public lots that have gone from the City to private for-profit developers since January 1, 2014. 596 Acres will testify specifically about four lots onHinsdale Street between Blake and Sutter where neighbors have been organizing for a…
11
Jan
Brooklyn, United States
Bushwick’s Eldert Street Garden will return to court on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 9:30am. The judge will be asked to declare the sale of the land that the garden is on to a developer in 2014 void. This charity transaction was not approved by the Attorney General as required by law and the sale was not authorized by anyone who can act on behalf of the owner. The garden continues to thrive: http://livinglotsnyc.org/lot/3034130063/ Bring your ID to get into the…
01
Dec
Brooklyn, NY 11211 United States
Invitation / Invitación The Gardeners of Hooper Street Park invite you to our Los Jardineros de Hooper Street Park lo invitan a la Public Visioning Session For the new Community Garden Reunión de Planificación Pública para el nuevo Jardín Comunitario At South 5th Street and Hooper ubicado en la calle Hooper y Sur 5 Thursday/Jueves, 12/1/16, 7:00 PM Nuestros Niños 384 S 4 St Between/Entre Hooper & Hewes St Co-Sponsored by/Co-auspiciado por: El Puente Green Light | Nuestros Niños | 596 Acres
20
Nov
Brooklyn, NY 11212 United States
Bring your land access puzzles, land tenure frustrations and land sovereignty success stories! **We will focus on the impact of the Mayor’s Housing Plan on existing gardens and community land access.** We are meeting at Green Valley Community Garden & Farmers Market (formerly Powell Street Block Association) in Brownsville, a garden that is in danger of disappearing. Green Valley Farm in East New York was one of the sites that was announced as being permanently preserved at a meeting hosted…
