Other Organizations
Brooklyn (4)
Brooklyn Urban Gardener (BUG) certificate program - FREE!
Location: GreenBridge of Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
About: Are you called to garden with your neighbors? GreenBridge, the community environmental horticulture program of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, promotes urban greening through free educational workshops, conservation initiatives, and creative partnerships. Our new Brooklyn Urban Gardener (BUG) certificate program is a ten-week course of interconnected workshops that cover the basics in urban gardening ...
Bushwick Farmers' Market
Location: 130 Palmetto St, Brooklyn
About: The Bushwick Farmers' Market is part of EcoStation:NY, A Bushwick, Brooklyn based non-profit rooted in ideas of social and environmental justice which is dedicated to exploring the connections between human environment and human health. We currently operate the Bushwick farmers' market at 5 (soon to be 6) locations across Bushwick, a rooftop garden in Bushwick and a teaching garden at the Bushw...
Composting Gowanus
Location: 5 2nd Ave, Brooklyn
About: The Gowanus Canal Conservancy's compost program ¡Composting Gowanus!, takes in residential food residuals, leaves in the fall, tree trimmings from local landscapers, wood shavings from area wood shops, all to divert organics from the waste stream and create a solid foundation for NYC's burgeoning tree carea & urban ag sectors.
Sustainable Flatbush Compost Team
Location: 211 East 21st Street, Brooklyn
About: If you’re interested in composting, gardening, or simply want to get your hands dirty with some friends, join the Sustainable Flatbush Compost Team! We are hosting Compost Open Hours at the Flatbush Reformed Church on Saturdays from 11am until 1pm, and starting in June we will also hold Open Hours on Wednesday evenings, when the Flatbush Farm Share CSA members come to pick up their veggie s...
Manhattan (4)
Cook Out NYC
Location: Governor's Island historic Colonel’s Row, Manhattan
About: Cook Out NYC™ is the ultimate outdoor cooking and country fair event. As the featured event in Mayor Bloomberg’s third annual “July Good Beer Month,”Cook Out NYC™ offers outdoor grilling by chefs,meats from local purveyors,and custom beers from the local brewery,Sixpoint!. There will be food coming off the grill all day,plus food events,demos,entertainment,special food and beer guests and other...
Earth Matter Composting
Location: Governors Island, Manhattan
About: Earth Matter NY seeks to reduce the organic waste misdirected into the garbage stream by encouraging neighbor participation and leadership in composting. Our Compost Learning Center is open on Governors Island during the summer season. We're always looking for volunteers to help us during events held on the Island! Volunteers can help by: answering questions about composting, collecting food...
Esperanza House
Location: 107th Street, Manhattan
About: I work for Rebuilding Together NYC. We are rehabbing a building that it used as transitional housing for formerly homeless men. We are going to build a small greenhouse on the back deck. I need advice on what I need to purchase to make this happen. I have found greenhouse kits online. Do I need a floor? Electric? What kind of plants would work? Can you help us out the day of project (May 10th) ...
PS126/MAT Dragon Garden
Location: PS126/MAT 80 Catherine Street, Manhattan
About: Small school garden located at Lowest East/Chinatown neighborhood.
Queens (2)
BIG!Compost @ Queensbridge Park
Location: Queens Plaza South and 10th Street, Queens
About: BIG!Compost, a program of Build It Green!NYC, is a community-scale composting network, that works to increase capacity for, acceptance of, and participation in composting in western Queens. We serve the public by hosting weekly and event-specific food scrap drop-offs, training community members in urban composting best practices, and providing high-quality compost to amend our city’s soils. The...
Western Queens Compost Initiative @ Brooklyn Grange
Location: 37-18 Northern Boulevard, Queens
About: The Western Queens Compost Initiative (WQCI), a program of Build It Green!NYC, works to increase the capacity of local communities to create and manage composting efforts in western Queens. Our overall goal is to 1) provide sustainable local composting infrastructure; 2) educate New York City residents on the composting process and encourage them to compost organic materials; and 3) reduce the ...
