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The Morris-Jumel Community Garden will be one of hundreds of venues which will be part of Make Music New York on the first day of summer, Friday June 21, 2019. [rain cancels]
Lineup:
5:30 Lucas and Company
6:30 Susannh Conn -Thomas
7:00 Jane Bruce
7:30-8:30 Open Mic
9:00-10:00 Starbird & the Phoenix
Bring snacks and drinks!
Garden meetings are held the first saturday of the month at noon in the garden from April through October. In order to join the garden you must come to a garden meeting. Please also consult the Garden By Laws.
Therefore our 7 garden meetings in 2019 shall be:
- Saturday April 6 at noon.
- Saturday May 4 at noon
- Saturday June 1 at noon
- Saturday July 6 at noon
- Saturday August 3 at noon
- Saturday September 7 at noon
- Saturday October 5 at noon
See also the schedule of Green Thumb workshops and classes offered free to all gardeners.
SATURDAY JULY 14 11am-3pm (Garden is open until 5pm or later) On Open Gardens Day we invite you to meet the insects and animals that work together with humans in our garden. The main focus of this day is to introduce the community to our compost bins -which are full of worms and other creatures- and encourage everyone to drop off their compostables. Beekeepers, Feral Cat Colony Caretakers and a Master Composter will be on hand to show you our beehive, our feral cat apartment house and our compost bins, We will show you the basics and have literature on feral cat care-taking and composting in NYC.
Ms. Betty, one of our feral cats, overseeing the compost bin.
The Morris-Jumel queen bee is disinguished by her red dot
Participants are welcome to bring their compostables and questions about animals and insects in NYC Gardens – if you are interested you can help us turn the compost and bring home a bag of compost.
From Anthony one of our beekeepers
It’s now been three weeks since the (new) bees have been installed. So far they seem to be doing well. They’ve started building on the frames within the hive and the hive seems healthy. The queen is laying eggs and the workers are out foraging and tending to the hive.
We thought it would make sense to start our Bee Update series by talking about the Queen Bee. The Morris Jumel Queen Bee can be seen in the attached photo (the bee with the red dot). The Morris Jumel Queen started out as a common larva, no different than a worker or drone larva. However, early in development, this larva was fed an additional amount of the appropriately named “Royal Jelly” by the worker bees. Royal Jelly is produced by the nurse bees. Once the larva becomes an adult it goes out to mate and return to the hive. Back at the hive its sole purpose is to lay eggs and populate the hive. The queen typically lives up to 3 years (average worker bees live about 4 weeks). When the worker bees sense less pheromone from the queen a new queen larva is created for replacement.
The red dot on the queen has significance; it indicates that this queen was born this year (2018). Without the dot it can be difficult to locate the queen in the hive as the only real distinguishing feature is that the queen is slightly longer than the worker bees. The covered cells seen below the queen in the photo are capped cells filled with larva.
2018 garden meetings see also how to join the garden.
All meetings take place in the garden at noon, rain or shine
- April 14, 2018
- May 5, 2018
- June 2, 2018
- July 7, 2018
- August 4, 2018
- September 1, 2018
- October 6, 2018
OPEN HOURS – Saturdays & Sundays April – October, 12-5pm & (June-September) Tuesdays 6-9pm The garden is OPEN during these hours. You may often find the garden gate open at least 10 additional unscheduled hours, often in the early evening – everyone is welcome to visit the garden when it is open!
On July 12, the Garden hosted a Green Thumb Workshop called What’s Going on Inside my Bin? Gardeners from all over the city attended this workshop, which was taught by Kathryn an Organics Recovery Coordinator at the NYC Compost Project Hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Kathryn of the NYC Compost Project/LESEC starts off the workshop.
We learned about the different organisms working away at breaking down stuff in a regular open compost pile by looking at the pile as it is currently cooking. We discussed browns and greens and how to get a good mix of both. Kathryn provided a list of uptown/Bronx landscape companies looking for places to drop off wood-chips, which she recommend as the best browns to use in a compost bin. Everyone is running out of browns at this time of year!
in the picture on the right, Ellen is standing (3-4 feet lower) in our much depleted browns/leaf pile, we hope these will last us through to when the 2017 leaves start to fall.
We also discussed the garden’s outdoor worm bin, and briefly mentioned the Bokashi Food Fermentation method. The finished product really helps to heat up our garden’s compost. Here’s a blog post on Bokashi made into a handout we gave out at this workshop. We also discussed the best tools for building and maintaining a successful pile.
Kathryn, demonstrating how the Compost Crank works. This can be purchased [$35-$45] through the NYC Compost Project/LESEC and other NYC Compost Project locations
We posted earlier about how how many organics we keep out of the waste stream, and about our hot pile, so come by the garden and contribute your compostables to the cause! And this is not the first compost workshop taught in the garden, but it was definitely the most successful and best attended.
Thanks to Mara Gittleman, Outreach Coordinator for GreenThumb (who took the pictures above) and Kathryn Robling of the NYC Compost Project/Lower East Side Ecology Center for making this happen. Looking forward to composting with you again soon!
P.S: Here’s a picture of the handout of who will drop off free woodchips in the Bronx (presumably uptown too).
The official 2017 gardening season starts tomorrow. Starting tomorrow the garden will be open, weather permitting, 12-5 Saturdays and Sundays. We will also be open many other unscheduled hours. So if you see the gate open, come on into the garden.
Tomorrow is also the first meeting of the season. Here’s a schedule of all our garden meetings for the 2017 season:
APRIL 1 * MAY 6 * JUNE 3 * JULY 1 * AUGUST 5 * SEPTEMBER 2 * OCTOBER 7
all meetings take place in the garden at noon, rain or shine on the first Saturday of every month during the gardening season.
see everyone in the garden and happy Spring!
Does anyone know who’s dog this is? Yay we found the owner of this dog and he will be reunited with her tomorrow morning! Found in the Morris-Jumel Community Garden [457 West 162nd street NYC 10032] the afternoon of 9/25/2016. This dog was taken to ACC at about 6pm tonight for vet evaluation where he was identified as a tan and white shih tzu mix.
Today we learned that the owner of this cute little lapdog was shocked to see he was missing after tying him up on Broadway and eventually he wandered into our garden. His name has been changed at ACC to his given name Nemo and he will be going home tomorrow morning! Looks like he got a bath before going home he looks quite fluffy in the picture below. A vet examination of the dog showed that he had actually already been neutered and his owner says Nemo is 13 years old.
Have a happy rest of your life, Nemo, I hope you come back to visit us the garden sometime soon! – this time come with your owner please!
This little boy was very well behaved and loved sitting on our laps and getting pet. He was also quite dirty, tired, dehydrated and hungry. There was something wrong with his back legs but he didn’t seem in pain.
We later learned he had only been wandering around for a few hours and that he has had something wrong with his back legs for a while
We guess Nemo won’t be tied up alone on the street for a while, what an adventure he had! We thank Furry Rascals pet supply store for connecting us to his owner.
Here’s a picture of Nemo after he got a bath at ACC, they seem to have used a filter, he is really more white and tan as in the first picture.
Please come to our
Garden Tag Sale!
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Clothing, books, toys and plenty of treasures and bargains will be available for purchase.
Prices 25¢ to $10 with markdowns on Sunday.
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457 west 162nd street between Edgecombe and Amsterdam Avenues [C train to 163rd street]
All sale proceeds go to supporting the Morris-Jumel Community Garden.
If you would like to donate goods to the garden for the sale, please bring them on Saturday after 11am. Or contact us at morrisjumelgarden@gmail.com.
above photo from a MMNY concert in the M-JCG years ago
On TUESDAY, JUNE 21st from 6-9 PM we will be holding a concert/Summer Solstice Celebration in the Garden as part of the Make Music New York Festival. This festival happens on the summer and winter solstices every year and celebrates the joy of music in our fair Big Apple.
The schedule includes a set with the indie-pop/folk band, “Starbird and the Phoenix” , along with a few other musical acts TBA. At 6 to start off the band will be playing some kid friendly tunes to celebrate my band’s contribution to “End NF;” an album which benefits adolescent brain cancer research.
If anyone else wants to bring food or drinks, that would be wonderful too. Let’s rejoice in the beauty of our garden, and each other! See you in the garden!
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