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Island Kids Campers in the Gardens in July

7/31/2015

 
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"Roosevelt Island Garden Club In Earth We Trust" Composting - Science or Magic?
RIGC and Island Kids began working together on a plan last spring. RIGC has helped Island Kids Summer Camp to start gardening in their own back yard. We have also hosted the fifty RI Island Kids campers (ages 4-6 and ages 7-10) in smaller groups for several educational workshops in the gardens.  

The children and counselors have learned about the Roosevelt Island Garden Club. They have searched for flowers, vegetables, fruits and more. (The scarecrows and statues are some of their favorite parts of the garden.) They have learned about composting, touched earth worms, and played games to sort out browns or greens from what doesn't belong in compost. They have heard about the importance of the asclepsias plants (milkweed, both orange and pink flowerd) for the monarch butterflies and seen the new Monarch Corridor Project beds. The older group has visited the pond and the horsetail rush plants that were around on earth when the dinosaurs lived. RIGC has also donated one of our composter tumblers for lunchtime fruit scraps and dried leaves. 

Most of all, we have all stopped together to breathe and look and listen. The Island Kids campers are now planting seeds and seedlings in their own back yard space and learning first hand some of the joys of gardening!  

RIGC Outreach through Garden Visits:  Join Us!

7/14/2015

 
April brought our dear friends from PS IS 217 2nd and 3rd grade with their annual inspiration visits for their iDig2Learn classes. 

May brought PS IS 217 Kindergarten classes who participated in scavenger hunts to learn about the garden.  Thanks to RI resident, Janine Schaefer, we also were able to host the Brownies and Girl Scouts of the Beacon/ RI Youth Program: Troops 3244 & 3245 for an afternoon of drawing and dreaming.  

In June we began our Island Kids connection with two visits from their after school group to plant seeds and watch snails. July brings workshops for Island Kids Campers and a new little garden for their summer camp program behind their main site.  

If you like creating activities or hosting activities or connecting with Island groups, please send us an email. We already have a committee of about five club members and are always open for more help and more fun as we share gardening learning with our Roosevelt Island neighbors.  
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A Living Library Gardening Class for Parents and Children on Roosevelt Island : sign up at the RI Branch of NYPL

7/2/2015

 
Hi Roosevelt Island Garden Club Members !  

We wanted to make sure that you and your network of Parents and Children (ages 4-14) know about the exciting, new, FREE, hands-on learning program this summer with the RI Library & A Living Library.  We will be focussing on Literacy, Gardening, Ecology, Multi-Arts, Nutrition, Local History and using the beautiful RI Living Library & Think Park Gardens behind 504 Main Street, adjacent to the site of the new Library.  Please spread the word !  And, Please join us !  

Above is the flyer and to the right is the application. The first class is on JULY 7 and will be led by Premilla Dixit Nag with Nicole Nelson.  It would be great if you can bring the application to the Library in advance of the first session so we know how many to expect.  You can also bring it to the first class.

We hope to see you soon !  Thank you for your participation and sharing with your neighbors and friends.

Bonnie Ora Sherk
Founder & Director
Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library 
bonnieora@alivinglibrary.org
http://www.alivinglibrary.org

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A dear friend:  In Memory of Henry Tomao

7/2/2015

 

Henry and Erika have gardened with us since the beginnings of our club when the gardens were at the site of Manhattan Park. We miss Henry very much and our hearts are with Erika in this season of change. This image of Henry's obituary is linked to the johnjfoxandsons.com memory site. Just click to connect.

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Also, please check our photos pages for more memories of their garden when we first moved to Octagon park. Below you find a lovely photo of Erika in the RIGC gardens when we were near the current subway. Henry brought this photo to us last summer to scan as a keepsake for our RIGC memories. 

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