Campus Road Garden / Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is planning to destroy the Campus Road community garden in order to put up a parking lot. Flatbush Gardener writes about it here: Save the Campus Road Garden in Flatbush


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Garden Donations

Just a quick note to let you know that we are accepting plant donations for the flower garden. Here's what we're looking for:

• Seeds
• Bulbs
• Plants
• Miscellaneous

I know a lot of gardeners are dividing perennials right now & perhaps getting rid of plants altogether. Now is also a good time to harvest seeds.

Recent Donations:
Elderberry Bush (Black Beauty)
Balloon Flower Seeds

MIT Gardeners

We mentioned the MIT Garden at today's meeting. See Gardeners on the Roof for a description of the project:

The pilot program in urban sustainable agriculture is the result of a months-long effort spearheaded by MIT Police Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer and Libraries Administrative Assistant and Public Service Support Associate Ryan Gray. Working with administrators and staff across the Institute, the two were able to secure seven little-used parking spaces and a strip of grass at West Garage to house the garden, which will comprise several dozen plots. The remainder of the spots on the garage's roof will still be open for parking this summer.

And there's a video too!

The MIT gardeners used Earth Boxes--it might be interesting to incorporate something like this into our garden plan for the Pratt Campus.

Weekly Meeting Report (3 in 1)

My apologies to the gardeners! We have been meeting every week, but I've been too busy to update the blog. Here are some brief notes from our last 3 meetings:

9.30.09

•  Barbara suggested that we should have a garden party at some point this semester. She can arrange for us to use the roof of her building.
• We talked about the possibility of arranging a viewing of a documentary about a garden in South Central LA: The Garden.
  

10.7.09

•  We talked about planting bulbs & getting donations for the flower garden by the ARC
• Garden T-Shirts--would you like to design one?
• Olga plans to watch The Garden & report back to the group
• Olga & Alicia plan to take pictures of the ARC garden & of the site by Classon Avenue
  

10.14.09

• Olga showed us the pictures of both garden sites--we'll add them to the blog soon!
• We discussed the meeting w/ new members scheduled for next week--I hope all current members can make it
• We went over some of the garden plans and discussed the use of cinder blocks in the central bed