Come make beautiful jewelry with garden member Sally Young. All materials provided!

One of our most knowledgeable members, Bill Buchen, has written a fun beginner’s guide called The Learning Garden: Easy Tips Based on Practical Experience, Some Success, and Tragic Errors! With help from several creative members, we’ve turned it into a one-page booklet, and we’d love your help assembling copies for the garden to distribute. We can chat about gardening, music, dogs, or whatever else comes to mind while learning how to fold your own one-page zine.

Please join us to celebrate the life of beloved garden member Mary Buchen on the summer solstice, Sunday June 21st from 4-6pm.

Thanks to everyone who came by the garden last time to help us get many of our plants in the ground on a very rainy day! Hoping for better weather this coming Sunday, June 14th at 3:30pm so that we can plant our potato starts in their 5 gallon buckets, sow some lettuce seeds, plus weed and water our plots!

We’ll have another session of the family-friendly beekeeping workshop with Julia in the garden at 3:30pm, too.

And save the date for our first cooking class of the season, which will be on Sunday, June 28th at noon.

Hope to see you on Sunday!

p.s. we have some sunprint paper and everyone will be welcome to make a print to take home, plus garden member artist Sally Young will join us to help tie-dye some t-shirts. So much going on!

A family-friendly workshop to learn about the busy pollinators in our city, led by Julia, a beekeeping apprentice, former STEM educator at NYPL, mom and enthusiastic pollinator advocate who gardens on Roosevelt Island and visits beehives all over the city.

PERFORMANCES AT 2pm & 4pm

Taking stories from communities in the LES and Chinatown, RTP creates a 40 min original play, written by Obie-award winning writer Carmen Rivera. Six actors speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish and English as various characters and stories intersect. 

The performance includes a food-justice element - we provide healthy snacks and info about healthy eating, and we also invite local artists and community members make art before and after the show.

Thank You For Listening is a celebration of often unheard from voices in our community. Find out more here.

Our annual fundraiser that allows us to offer hundreds of events throughout the year FREE to our community! Lots of plants for both indoor and outdoor spaces, along with a delicious selection of baked goods. Come celebrate the beginning of the gardening season with us!

Our annual fundraiser that allows us to offer hundreds of events throughout the year FREE to our community! Lots of plants for both indoor and outdoor spaces, along with a delicious selection of baked goods. Come celebrate the beginning of the gardening season with us!

Local artist Tom Sebazco carves a custom pumpkin for the garden, demonstrating advanced carving techniques that you can try on your own! See more of his work, here and here.

In this free participatory workshop, Darya Tsymbalyuk shares stories of Kreidova Flora (Chalk Flora), a nature reserve in Donetsk oblast, which is part of the Ukrainian steppe – a prairie ecosystem dominated by grasses. The workshop is based on the work and photo archive of Serhii Lymanskyi, an environmentalist and the director of the reserve, who has preserved and documented this unique place for years. Tsymbalyuk invites everyone to learn about different grassland species of Ukraine, share their stories, and draw a plant on a shared piece of paper, hoping to collectively imagine the steppe in bloom.

More info on the full festival, here.