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Late Season Bulb Planting

12/16/2023

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.

Fall General Membership Meeting 2023

10/23/2023

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Glow of Love: The Secret Language Fireflies Use to Find Mates AMNH/PBS Premiere (filmed in part in RIGC)

10/23/2023

Zero Waste Potluck: At Rivercross Community Room

9/30/2023

From Karen Lee - A BIG THANK YOU TEAM ZERO WASTE POTLUCK! We did bring back some sunshine with this event. Associate Amy, Deb, Sally, Jack, Dave, Neal helped set up and prepare. Also thanks to: All who brought food and their own eating things & napkins. All who came and/or schlepped things and music. We had 24 Attendees from A, B, and C sections. Hey D & E sections we missed you all! Some folks dropped off food or linens or dishes, but couldn't stay.

Our feast included: Greek salad w feta, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, Veg Couscous w garbanzo beans tomato zucchini monterey jack cheese, Greek cookies, Beef Chili w fixins, Stir Fry corn celery pine nuts soy sesame ginger, Baked Zucchini w seasoned yogurt mint sauce, Falafels w tahini, Salad w walnuts, yellow tomatoes, Pasta Salad w sun dried tomatoes feta onions, Pork Dumplings & fried pork finger strips, Potato Chips, Yellow Bundt Cake, Brazilian & cashew nuts, Apple sauce, Kiwis, Apples, Cantaloupe, Watermelon juice, Pellegrino YUM!

Waste generated: Less than 2 ounces!!

American Museum of Natural History NYC Firefly Project

7/5/2023

This week on Wednesday evening July 5th, RIGC was honored to host a film team from the American Museum of Natural History. Our Roosevelt island fireflies came out in droves to give them a show.

We met AMNH entomology curator Dr. Jessica Ware and high school citizen scientist from Ossining NY, Juliana Chauca. Erin Chapman the producer will let us know when this will be aired with PBS.

Juliana is running the Hudson Valley Firefly Project and there is still time for any interested gardeners to participate here on Roosevelt Island. Please see the information here below.

RIGC Spring General Meeting 2023 Slides

3/20/2023

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New Year and New Season for our Garden

1/10/2023

Dear RI Garden Members and Associates,
Happy New Year 2023!
May this year bring us blessings from the earth!

The RIGC volunteer Executive Board has had our first meeting of 2023. We will be back in touch in the next two weeks to send out the 2023 registration packet to Members in January followed by registration for Associates in February.

Poem: Autumn Wrapped in Red, Orange, and Gold

10/29/2022

The third of our four seasons of poems by Vera's Pen for 2022. Thank you and "Á la prochaine!"

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Fall General Meeting Sunday Oct. 23, 2022 Slide Show

10/23/2022

Town Hall Meetings 2022: a lovely Zero Waste Potluck returns after three years. Beautiful evening in the garden!

9/10/2022

Karen and Jack deserve much acknowledgment for their generous gift of time, organization skills, and work in making the potluck a success!

Harvest dishes abounded as we all included tomatoes, peppers, or herbs from our gardens. One special highlight was the fig tart by Sara and Stamos. The teaching garden students along with Laura L. harvested a cantaloupe to serve and created a bean, basil, kale salad.

We enjoyed real cutlery and dishes and cloth napkins! Thank you to all for bringing your own dishes and utensils, cups and napkins. At the "Sanit" station we composted all food scraps returning directly into the compost pile so that what comes from the earth, to the earth. As for zero waste we were so close! Because of all these efforts, we produced less than one pound (only a half of one container) of waste that had to go to landfill.

For after the meal, Janet brought the game 'Name that Plant' for folks to learn how to identify NYS invasive plants and some beneficial look alike alternatives. For example:

Purple Loosestrife can be replaced by the long blooming Anise Hyssop
invasive Sweet Autumn Clematis can be replaced by the similarly beautiful and also fast growing American native Virgin's Bower or Clematis virginiana

Special thanks to so many. We had 25-30 people who were able to attend. There were food contributors who brought a dish even though they couldn't stay. We had teams of folks who cleaned up before, David and Kaz; and those who set up on the day of the event; Karen, Linda, Madeleine, Mary, Mako, Alida, Stamos, Sara, Farouk, Yema, Luba, and Deb D. who also bought ice; then those stayed to clean up after Monica and Jack. We have certainly missed naming some people here, so once again, gratitude for all.

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