Harlem Green Garden Tour
| itle: | Harlem Green Garden Tour |
| Date: | Saturday, August 9th, 2008 |
| Time: | 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM |
| Location: | Wilson Memorial Garden 219 W122 St |
| Summary: | A bike or walking tour of Harlem’s diverse community gardens. Ride uptown to meet us car-free on summer streets:http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/downloads/summer_streets_map.pdf |
| Details: | Join Time’s Up!, Harlem United Gardeners, Green Thumb and the NYC Community Garden Coalition on your bike or feet for the 3rd Annual Harlem Green. A Tour of Harlem Community GardensOn this tour we will visit some of Harlem’s most beautiful and peaceful green community oases. Join us to visit the outstanding fruit trees, grapes ripe on the vine, restful gazebos, composting projects, amazing stands of corn, cotton, tomatoes and collards, hundreds of variety of herbs, flowers, fruits, vegetables.
Meet Harlem’s gardeners who are our true grassroots developers who have worked long and hard to improve and protect our environment and to keep our city from becoming a concrete desert. Tour starts with breakfast and ends with a barbecue. TOUR SCHEDULE 10:00 AM: Tour starts with Breakfast at theJOSEPH DANIEL WILSON MEMORIAL GARDEN 219 W. 122 ST. btw. Adam Clayton Powell & Frederick Douglass Blvds. and goes on to: OUR LITTLE GREEN ACRES 275 W. 122 ST. CLAYTON WILLIAMS GARDEN 303 W. 126 ST. (near Frederick Douglass Boulevard) WILLIAM B. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL GARDEN -321-325 W. 126 ST. (near St. Nicholas Avenue) MARGRICHANTIE MEMORIAL GARDEN 155 -159 W. 133 ST. COMMUNITY GARDEN OF W. 146 ST. 226- 234 W. 146 ST. HOPE STEVENS GARDEN 1656 AMSTERDAM AVE. CONVENT AVENUE GARDEN at 150- 151 ST. NICHOLAS AVE. WILLIAM A. HARRIS COMMUNITY GARDEN 153RD ST. & ST. NICHOLAS AVE. Visitors are welcome to join the tour at any point along the way — call or text to 646 938 9702 to find the tour. For further information, email Ellen at xupgardening@gmail.com. |
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