We decided not to postpone and ended up picnicking in the rain under our rain coats and brightly colored umbrellas.
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Through the compost advocacy last spring, we met Samuel Pressman of Green Garden Truck. Samuel works across the city to try to recover materials and share with many community and school gardens in need. Our big bags of gravel removed from the front common area was transported to another garden for the base of their new shed. Win, win, win and gratitude for all those who sifted this gravel and helped out with all this long process.  RIGC Standards Committee would like to announce the following compliments and commendations for June 2024. We have an amazing patchwork quilts of gardens and the Standards Committee helps us keep everything well tended and well mended. Most improved: C57 - Congratulations on all the beautiful gardening! A14 - John’s Pond- a lot of clearing out - sunlight! Most glorious hydrangea among many beauties: B09 - Everyone should go see it- it practically glows! Tranquility: B14 (so much work and the garden looks lovely) Beautiful flowers: C08, C41 and the whole corner B26, B27, B28, B29 and B30   Jorg and Kaz are rebuilding the four big bin structure of our communal compost system. Come out and help sift compost created in 2023 and enjoy using this in your garden!
Early spring is in the air! Listen for the Cardinals and the Carolina Wren. This picture is by our member Carolina. Follow @trucaro_natura for beautiful birds in our community garden and on Roosevelt Island.  Read more in "Community Composting Produces More than Just Good Dirt" by Greta Wong in City Limits linked HERE Gil Lopez of BigReuse and Smiling Hogshead Ranch facilitated our event. Greta Wong of Nurture BK Compost and formerly of Queens Botanical Compost also joined to teach us about the full cycle process of composting. We brought our food scraps, gathered, learned mixed and chopped, incorporated greens & browns into one of the current compost piles, sifted finished compost, and applied some compost to a garden! We lit a candle as we learned about more land based thinking traditions and seasonal practices like Imbolc. Then we had time left for treats, conversations, and relaxed connections under a brilliant, cold-air-&-sunshine, blue sky.  Bulbs Donation Last Saturday we received a generous donation of hundreds of pink tulip bulbs from Conor O’Brien, Landscape Architect, and one of our generous RIGC Associates. Curtis Lowery of Landscape Committee says that if anyone is available next Saturday at 12 noon, please come out to help plant in landscape beds or in your own garden. We will label and leave any that we are unable to plant in the common tool shed.  |
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