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ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS:KIDS HALLOWEEN PARTY 2009!! see 'projects' page for more photos... The Environment Rangers
celebrate a successful summer. Pi and Xavier help Yvette spread mulch. | WORKDAYS, EVENTS & latest news:
Nexy Workday, Saturday, July 17--10am-2pm
HARLEM GREEN—A Tour of Harlem Gardens
Harlem Community Gardens are pleased to announce that “HARLEM GREEN,” the 5th Annual Harlem Community Gardens Tour, will take place on Saturday, July 31st(raindate Sunday, August 1st),2010 from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. The Tour will begin with a breakfast in the Joseph Daniel Wilson Community Garden at 219 West 122nd Street, and the last stop will be at the William A. Harris Garden on 153rd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, where Tourists will experience a traditional, home-style Harlem Barbecue. The Harlem gardens, all managed by community volunteers, are among New York City’s most extraordinary and best–kept secrets. Tourists will discover an amazing variety of trees, vegetables, herbs and f lowers as well as ponds, gazebos, rain-water harvesting systems, and more. The gardens are host to people of all ages. Some are shade gardens where folks can come to relax or cook a meal. The gardens run programs for toddlers, young mothers, youths and seniors; some have tutoring programs and environmental studies workshops for teens and other community folks. There are canning and preserving workshops. Some gardens host Community Supported Agriculture programs-- “CSA’s”.
“Harlem Green” has been financed in large part by the Green Guerillas of NYC, with assistance also coming from the following agencies and organizations: Greenthumb; HUG (Harlem United Gardens);The NYC Community Gardens Coalition (NYCCGC); the Parks and Recreation Department of NYC ; Project Harmony, Inc., and the William A. Harris Garden.
For more information call 212.662. 2878 or 917.288.8053
SUMMER YOUTH WORKSHOPS BEGIN WEEK OF JULY 19TH.
STORY-TIME, THURSDAYS-1PM
SPECIAL WORKSHOP ON NUTRITION WITH TERRY AND ALLISON; THRSDAY, JULY 22 @ 11:30 AM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OUR THANKS!
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO HANS FUTTERMAN, OUR NEIGHBOR, FOR DONATING THE GREEN MULBERRY NETTING!
Project Harmony welcomes summer interns!
Marouh Hussein and Zorina Razack, two Stonybrook students, will be with us for the summer. Both are environmental studies students--among the many other things they do. We will let them introduce themselves here soon. Suffice to say, they've already been initiated by helping unload and count our CSA produce, and seeing to it that all IS distributed. Robinson Strong and Amy Hood,Horace Mann students,have been helping as well--harvesting mulberries, putting up the mulberry netting--no smalL feat!--and making sure the garden is garbage free, the pond "topped," plants watered, and more! A HUGE thank you to all f
Volunteers Welcome!
We always need volunteers for specific tasks: watering, picking up trash in front of the garden, routine gardening maintenance, "topping the pond" & pond care, etc.
If you have some time and would like to volunteer, please call us @ 212.662.2878!
THE KITCHENTABLE/PROJECT HARMONY CSA
212.662.2878
June 13, 2010
Our CSA is well underway with 50 members this year! "Our" farmer, Claudio Gonzalez, now delivers fresh produce to our two sites--the JD Wilson GArden on W. 122nd between 7th & 8th Aves. and Papo's Garden in East Harlem--219 East 119th between 2nd
& 3rd Aves.
The produce, all organically grown is fresh
& beautiful!
Two of our members, Terry Rodriguez and Alison Ogden are conducting a series of cooking workshops in both gardens. The 1st was in the Wilson Garden, June 10th--with demonstrations of healthy, easy-to-make salad dressings. Yum!
PROJECT HARMONY IN ITS 25TH YEAR! So Much Thanks to All Our Friends
who, over the years, have given us their support: Block Association 122; The Body Shop of Harlem; Citizens for NYC; Deutsch Bank; Greenthumb;The Green Guerilas; The Greening of Harlem; Just Food, Inc.; The NYC Environmental Justice Alliance; The NYC Community Gardens Coalition; NYC Botanical Gardens; New York Cares; NYC Council on the Environment; City-Year; Harlem Educational Activities Fund; The Kitchentable; Neighborhood Open Space Coalition; The Penny-Savers of The School at Columbia; The New York Women's Foundation; The New York City Partnership for Parks; The Riverside Sharing Committee; Tisch school of the Arts (NYU); The Trust for Public Land; A. James Heynen; Dr. David Eberle; Terri &
Robert Gumula Drach; Leslie Lowe and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation; Pete & Toshi Seeger; Yvette Cruz; Sabrina Hanson; Casimir Alexander; Jay &
Jennie Bell; Francis Greenburger; Esther Wanning; Rukeye Overo; Valerie Smith; Fialka Seminuik, Grace Britton, Barbara Costello, Nancy Steinke, and all our other many, many frinds and neighbors who have given so generously of their time, money and spirit. -We are forever grateful to all our fellow gardeners and "guardians" of the land.
December 20th Project Harmony Open House & Holiday Celebration: Despite the huge snowfall which kept some guests away, many braved the weather, enjoyed the puppet show, the songs, the food & homemadewine--and best of all, we collected a huge amount of health and beauty items--necessities--for the women of Safe Horizons' Safe Houses. Safe Horizons' "Parish Houses" are our neighbors, and we wanted to give where it was needed: we collected soaps, shampoos, diapers--you name it--all of which were picked up by the women on Christmas Eve. They were overwhelmed! We're hoping to cultivate this relationship--surely, we can benefit from getting to know one another better!
Saturday, November 7/09
was our final bulb and bare root planting, seed and bulb saving for the season-- with NY Cares-- and, to our delight, a bunch of young people--pictured above --from HCZ--who came with great enthusiasm & pizazz to help out!
We also took in all the annuals we can save for next year, tropicals, and non-hardy perennials--so our indoor garden looks a bit like a rain forest at the moment! Huge thanks to HCZ youth and their leaders, Alan, our NYCares team leader, Tara, Monique, and all the others who did a totally fantastic job!!
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OCTOBER 24/09
STREET TREE CARE WORKSHOP --a great success,
sponsored by "The Million Trees Stewardship Program," Susan Fields, formerly of Greenthumb and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, didn't disappoint as a great workshop leader. She provided excellent information in an interactive, exciting and "fun" format.
The after-lunch session was hands-on. All participants received free materials/tools to care for "their" (adopted) street tree. So motivated were a few attendees, they spent hours the next day "saving" endangered community street trees.
Lunch, catered and served by Alex Lopez Reitzes' "Uprise Catering and Baking"was healthy, delicious and beautiful.
The
ANNUAL KIDS' HALLOWEEN
PARTY IN THE
GARDEN
(OCTOBER 31ST) was a great success as well. Over 45 ghostees, goblins, fairies, Bo-peeps, princes
& princesses showed up for games, treats, marshmallow roasting
& more.
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Project Harmony, Inc.
and
The Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden
Project Harmony, Inc., a grass-roots, non-profit, volunteer-driven neighborhood organization, is devoted to the well-being of our total environment. Since 1985 we have been active in community revitalization efforts. We’ve cleaned up filthy, vacant lots, making them into gardens and woodlands which are natural habitats for birds, native plants, and other woodland creatures, while being at once peaceful, productive green oases whose respite the public can enjoy. We have worked with numerous agencies throughout the city and beyond in order to help make our neighborhood cleaner, healthier, safer, and economically more stable. We’ve reached out to victims of addiction, mental illness, homelessness, hunger and other diseases, many symptomatic of societal depression. Our “Doers” cottage industry and environmental training program has helped people acquire apartments, establish their own businesses, and further their education.
We believe in stewardship and responsibility, as those relate in every way to family, community, the world. We have hosted numerous self-help & environmental workshops, as well as block “parties with a purpose,”
intergenerational festivals, community clean-ups, street beautification efforts, arts forums, concerts and more. We believe in “thinking globally, acting locally,” always mindful of the legend that “Life Began In A Garden” is a powerful vision of what our lives—in their different ways—can be.
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