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2021 Best Gardens Month by Month

10/25/2021

 
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The Standards Committee favorite job is to acknowledge the excellent work that gardeners do. Our review is conducted over time, in the course of the year, for plots in sun or shade, for flowers or vegetables.

Best May Garden:  A02 Ali Schwayri
Best June Garden: A03 Aiesha Eleusizov
Best July Garden:  A01 Beverly Shutes
Best August Garden: C28 Curtis Lowrey
Best Sept Garden: D05 Dorothy Skelin
Most Improved:     D01 Jorg Meyer


The gardeners on the Standards committee work hard every year and this year they had to reboot our regular seasonal inspections. Standards motivates us all to take the time to slow down and to come out and garden! As a community garden, we take our responsibility to the earth and to our neighbors on the waitlist seriously. We promote active gardening in this space that we share with the visiting public and the standards committee works hard to help us do that.  Join them! 

Some plot holders keep vegetable gardens, others choose herbs, flowers, and berries. Some garden in sun and others in shade. Some gardeners prefer a natural style with native plants for birds and pollinators, others plant perennials and annuals into a formal rock garden or traditional style. Whatever gardeners choose, it is important to be active and to come out to enjoy your plot. 

Thank you, RIGC Standards!

Spring and Fall Youth Gardening Classes Returned in 2021

10/16/2021

 
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Despite the ongoing challenges of Covid 19, the Outreach Team who were interested in offering free garden classes was able to make a come back this spring and fall 2021.  Laura Laderman and Julia Ferguson both enjoy "teaching" these gardening classes and they were glad to be able to start again this year. We offered 6 weeks of free classes in May and June and then again another 6 weeks of free classes in September and October.  

Plot D12 is super shady with many tree roots, but we persist.  We also were able to use some sunny spots in C-38 and C-39 in the summer for corn, tomatoes, and cucumbers.  Plot D12 has produced lots of kale, purple beans, a few radishes, and now Swiss chard, lettuce, and garlic for winter crops. We have some native pollinator plantings ,one hydrangea, and a few impatiens.  Most of all Plot D12  gives youth ages 9-13 a place to learn with a cycle of activities that we repeat in some way each week: 

  1. Breathe deeply
  2. Observe & Inquire
  3. Look Down - Soil - Check on & Learn about soil.
  4. Look about - Plants - Check on & Learn about plants.
  5. Look up and around - Ecosystem - Think about and Consider the Interconnected Whole

This fall at our final class we had two boys and two girls and a guest scientist. (Thank you, Alexander Dvorak.) We also had three children of member gardeners - now a "tradition" since 2014 when one high schooler, the daughter of a member in the B section, got it all started. Click here for the article

Stay tuned for more.  The last thing these young people said was: 
" When is our next class?"

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NYC Pollinator Group Visits Wonderful Roosevelt Island Community Garden To Learn And Share Best Practices On Bees, Native Plants, Composting & More!

10/15/2021

 

Please read  and watch 
this post by The Roosevelt Islander  for much more information. 
We could not have been more excited to host passionate professionals from all around NYC for a visit and seed swap at the gardens on Friday afternoon October 15th:  Parks professionals, Landscapers, National Wildlife educators, Native plant enthusiasts, Arborists, Entomologists and more! Thank you so much Christina Delfico @iDig2Learn for organizing this social gathering for nature!

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Weekends are for Photography and Pollinators

10/3/2021

 
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A visitor  from Manhattan enjoyed some regular weekend visits to RIGC for photography this fall.  He preferred to remain anonymous, but graciously sent some of the pictures he enjoyed capturing in our gardens.  Thank you, NYC neighbor, for this wonderful glimpse of the some of the beauty and life in the gardens. 

Early fall visit from La Scuala d'Italia G. Marconi!

10/1/2021

 
Thanks to our Associate, Annavaleria Guazzieri, RIGC was able to host a group of 20 students from "La Scuola d'Italia G, Marconi" in Manhattan to visit the gardens on the afternoon of the 1st of October. Most 10th and 11th graders, these students were a mix of native speakers of Italian and native speakers of English. They visited several sites on Roosevelt Island: Blackwell House, then the Cornell Tech and Four Freedoms Park, and finally the gardens before heading to the Octagon, where a photo exhibit was on show. They were also lucky enough to get a composting lesson from Anthony Longo during their visit.  Thank you to "La Scuola d'Italia G, Marconi" and director Michael Prater for honoring us as part of this Roosevelt Island visit. 

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