Community Garden Magazine Issue Eight April 2016 Community Garden Magazine Issue Eight April 2016 | Page 7

information about grants on our page.) Members of your group who recieveSNAP or Food Stamps can use those benefits to buy seeds or starts. 6. Make sure you have a sustainable plan for water. You might be able to get water from a local resident or business; you can get a key for a fire hydrant if that would work; rainwater catchment works really well in New York City, too. INVOLVE YOUR VOLUNTEER BASE IN BUILDNG THE SYSTEM. Providing Tools for communities to connect to land resource around them. Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.596acres.org NEWS FROM THE ORGANIZING ACRES On March 8, South Bronx residents, SoBRO staff, and 596 Acres’ Paula Z. Segal met with Department of Transportation Bronx Commissioner Constance Moran to agree to work together towards turning a huge abandoned roadbed in Melrose into Hill Street Community Garden! Are you a neighbor who wants to get involved? Join us as an Organizer: http://livinglotsnyc.org/lot/6000020001 or email Victor at [email protected] to get involved! Prospect Lefferts, Brooklyn - Neighbors are urging NYC Parks to acquire the Maple Street Community Garden, a crucial community space, for permanent preservation. Now is the time to let City Council Member Mathieu Eugene know this is important to you: sign this letter, then connect with the organizers: http://livinglotsnyc.org/lot/3050300072/ or email [email protected] to plug in. Flushing, Queens - Several neighbors are organizing to transform a city-owned vacant lot right to the east of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park! Are you a neighbor who wants to be involved in this campaign? Become an organizer here: http://livinglotsnyc.org/lot/4063910024/ or contact Alishia at [email protected] or 718600121 to get involved. She will be making a presentation about the potential of a garden here to Queens Community Board 7 on Monday, April 11 at 7pm. The meeting will be at the Union Plaza Care Center located at 33-23 Union Street, Flushing, NY 11354. Mark your calendar and coBushwick/Bed Stuy, Brooklyn - Daniel is looking for other neighbors who want to turn a space onWilloughby Avenue and Stuyvesant Avenue into a garden. Want to join? Become an organizer here: http://livinglotsnyc.org/lot/3015890058 or email Daniel at [email protected]. 7