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April is here and that means community gardening season in NYC has begun! We are excited and happy to be gardening again. We have recently updated our policies on: Public and Garden Group Access, COVID-19 Protocols, and Food Distribution for GreenThumb community gardens on @nycparks property. To find out all our Important Service Changes, please visit: bit.ly/GreenThumbUpdates / bit.ly/GreenThumbUpdatesSpanish. *Please note that policies are subject to change based on City..., state, and federal regulations related to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, community gardens operating on NYC Parks property may remain open or closed to the general public at the discretion of each garden group. Please check for signage near the garden entrance to find out if the garden is closed, open to members only, or open to the public at this time. : Daffodils and forsythia in bloom at Amazing Garden by Elena Dubas, GreenThumb #greenthumbgrows #nycparks #greenthumbupdates

Starting your seeds early this year? Not sure how to use your garden's hoop house or high tunnel? We've got you covered! Our Propagating Crops in a Hoop House YouTube series featuring Dan Moon from Citywide Nursery in the Bronx, covers everything you need to know from tray selection, soil, planting seeds, watering, pricking out and potting up, hardening off, and more. Visit bit.ly/GTPropagation to watch on our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/GreenThumbNYC). #greenthumbgrows #nycparks

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection is hiring for a Seasonal City Park Worker. For more details, please visit: https://on.nyc.gov/3t5f55N

GreenThumb Outreach Coordinator, Eric Thomann, striking a pose after facilitating today’s Happy Hydrating with Your Hydrant webinar outside the Amazing Garden. Eric taught the ins and outs of connecting a garden hose to your fire hydrant by demonstrating how to use a hydrant wrench and attach a reduced pressure zone back flow preventer (RPZ) between the hose and hydrant. Missed the workshop? Subscribe to our YouTube Channel @ NYC Parks GreenThumb (www.youtube.com/GreenThumbNYC) to receive a notification when it is added! #greenthumbgrows #greenthumbworkshops

Join us tomorrow, 3/31 from Noon-1:00 p.m., for our "Happy Hydrating with your Hydrant" webinar to learn how to connect a garden hose to your fire hydrant from GreenThumb Outreach Coordinator, Eric Thomann. RSVP at the link below. #greenthumbgrows #nycparks

"Cousins to cauliflower and broccoli, collards are a hearty green known for their robust, slightly bitter taste and the rich, nutritious pot liquor they produce when cooked. These greens and their liquor have been lauded for generations, but few in the South know that there’s more than one kind of collard green. Even fewer know that there are dozens of different varieties, and that many are now on the verge of disappearing forever. That’s where the Heirloom Collard Project comes in. By distributing and growing rare and unique collards, this massive collaboration has created ties between chefs, gardeners, farmers, and seedsmen who hope to preserve the plant’s genetic diversity." #LunchTimeRead

GreenThumb garden groups! Join us online tomorrow, the 24th from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m., for the first monthly session of our spring 2021 Conflict Transformation Circles. For more information and to RSVP, please visit the link below. #greenthumbgrows

We are now accepting workshop proposals for our 37th annual GreenThumb GrowTogether conference, taking place virtually on Saturday, February 20, 2021 through Saturday, February 27, 2021! For more information and how to submit your ideas, please visit the link below. Deadline: Wednesday, December 9, 5:00 p.m. #greenthumbgrows #nycparks

Happy National Pumpkin Day! Learn some fun facts and history on the pumpkin in today's #LunchTimeRead.

Today's #lunchtimeread with video featuring the GreenThumb Operations Team helping move the murals. "Artists created the raw, real images on plywood that was used during the demonstrations to board up countless businesses across the city. [Artist, Daniel] Bonilla grew up in Inwood and created several pieces that were relocated as part of the project. GreenThumb and NYC Parks arranged for them to be transported to a storage facility in Midtown Manhattan." #greenthumbgrows #nycparks

Green Oasis Community Garden & Gilbert's Sculpture Garden, 2019 by Elena Dubas, GreenThumb

Attention GreenThumb gardeners, please check this map of COVID-19 hotspots, so you can continue to monitor the situation and get informed about the proper precautions to take for specific activities. #greenthumbgrows

Community gardener, Barbara Cahn, with an Elephant Head Amaranth, so named because the huge flower heads look like an elephant raising its trunk towards the sky. by Tequila Minsky #greenthumbgrows #nycparks

Happy World Food Day! Celebrated internationally each year on October 16th since 1979, #WorldFoodDay commemorates the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization (@fao) of the @unitednations in 1945. This day promotes global awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security for all. This year marks the 75th anniversary of FAO with the theme: "Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together". Thank you to everyone who produces, plants, harv...ests, and transports our food! A special thank you to all the @nycparks GreenThumb gardeners for the important work you do in nourishing your communities, especially during the pandemic. You're our #FoodHeroes everyday! : The first place winning radishes in the 2020 #GTHarvestFair competition from Halsey Ralph Howard Community Garden / @hrhcommunitygarden in Bed-Stuy by community gardener, Melanie Mambo. #greenthumbgrows #happyworldfoodday

On #WorldFoodDay, learn about some things you can do to help stop food waste. #lunchtimeread

Happy World Food Day! Thank you to all the gardeners and farmers for being food heroes!

You can self-respond to the #2020Census online until 6am ET on Friday, 10/16. Don’t wait! Go to my2020census.gov to fill it out now. Telephone: You can self-respond by phone until 2am ET on Friday, 10/16 in: English 844-330-2020 / Español 844-468-2020

Part 2 of Carpentry Tools 101! Learn how about different tools for measuring and marking your cuts on lumber.

Close to 40% of New Yorkers STILL need to self-respond to the #2020Census. Get counted NOW. Deadline is Friday, Oct. 16 at 6am: my2020census.gov #GetCountedNYC

Join us for our workshop, "Documenting and Preserving Garden Legacies: Part 1", tomorrow from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.. We will focus on the importance of preserving the stories of our community gardeners, as well as share best practices and guidelines for recording oral histories. Please RSVP below to receive the link to join the webinar. #greenthumbgrows

Part 1 of our video series on basic carpentry tools that you might use in the garden. In this video, GreenThumb Outreach Coordinator Gregory Anderson reviews safety tools and equipment. by Mara Gittleman, GreenThumb Workshops and Education Coordinator.