Resources

• New York Places, Organizations, Events
• Online Resources
• Library
• Tree ID (Summer and Winter)

New York Places, Organizations, Events

Places

• Parks
  • Tompkins Sq. Park southwest corner - managed by Friends of Tompkins Square Park(vol)
  • Inwood Hill
  • Swindler Cove
  • Pelham Bay Park
  • Alley Park
  • Marine Park(vol)
  • Forest Park
  • Brower Park - monarch garden
  • Prospect Park
  • Battery Park - food forest
  • Roosevelt Island Manhattan Healing Forest (Miyawaki forest)
  • Randall's Island Native Plant Garden
  • The High Line
  • Seward Park native plant garden
  • Stuy Cove Park / Solar1
  • Hudson River Pier 26
• Community gardens(vol)
  • La Plaza Cultural
  • El Jardin del Paraiso
  • Green Oasis
  • Francisco 'Pancho' Ramos
  • 6B
  • 6BC
  • Narrows Botanical Garden
  • Lentol Garden - woodland example
  • EL garden - pawpaws, community
  • McCarren Demo Garden
  • Down to earth - bokashi composting - shig matsukawa
  • Access garden
  • Ridgewood Community Garden
  • Oko Farms Aquaponic
• Rooftop gardens
  • Kingsland wildflowers(vol)
• Publicly available private gardens
  • NYBG
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Naval cemetery landscape
  • Greenwood Cemetery
  • Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3
  • NYU Pratt Textile Dye Garden
• Waterways / waterfronts
  • Newtown Creek (vol)
  • Gowanus Canal (vol)
  • Spuyten Duyvil Creek
  • Oakland Lake
• Urban farms
  • Red hook urban farm (vol)

Organizations

• LES Ecology Center(vol)
  • Master Composter
• NYC Parks(vol)
• GrowNYC
• NYC Pollinator Working Group
• Gowanus Canal Conservancy(vol)
• Newtown Creek Alliance(vol)
• City Parks Foundation
• Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
• TreesNY
  • Citizen Pruner
• LUNGS
• MORUS
• New Yorkers for Parks
• RAIN Coalition
• Forest for All NYC
• Natural Areas Conservancy
• Shorakapok Earthkeepers (Inwood Hill Park)

Events

• Creatures nyc mailing list
• NYC Parks event list

Educational Programs

• NYC Parks Super Steward
  • Fire Hydrant permit + training for Super Stewards (offered in spring)
• TreesNY Citizen Pruner
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden BUG (Brooklyn Urban Gardener)

Online Resources

General community gardening skills: The GreenThumb website provides online resources and a variety of workshops on skills ranging from carpentry to garden design.

https://www.nycgovparks.org/greenthumb/resources

Taking care of tree beds: The Street Tree Care Captain webinar provides an introduction of tree bed care.

https://www.nycgovparks.org/reg/advanced-stewardship

Lady Bird Johnson Center, North Carolina Extension Gardener, The Plant Native, bplant.org,

Youtube channel: GrowitBuildit, amazing in-depth videos about specific native plants, soil quality/soil testing, garden design, installation and maintenance tips, and more

Youtube channel: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t

Reddit: [/r/NativePlantGardening](https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/), [r/invasivespecies](https://www.reddit.com/r/invasivespecies/)

The Xerces Society has incredible, detailed resources on pollinator conservation from site establishment, planting, plant selection, assessment, and so on.

• New York Native Planting Guide
• GrowNYC Resilient Gardens Guide

You can also join the NYC Pollinator Working Group mailing list.

Library

Reference books

• Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes Thomas Rainer & Claudia West
• The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril
• Botany for Gardeners Brian Capon
• Wild NYC Ryan Mandelbaum

Non-fiction

• Concrete Botany: the ecology of plants in the age of human disturbance Joey Santore
• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants Douglas Tallamy
• Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold
• Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Serviceberry Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Free the Land Audrea Lim
• As Long as Grass Grows Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities Peter S. Alagona
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs
• Power at the Roots: Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side Miranda J. Martinez
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• Gotham Unbound: the Ecological History of Greater New York, Ted Steinberg
• Learning Environment: Inspirational Actions, Approaches, and Stories from the Science Classroom Jared Fox
• Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, Anthony Garcia and Mike Lydon
• Mannahatta: a Natural History of New York City Eric W. Sanderson
• Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac, Lobelia Commons

Fiction

• The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin
• Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler
• The Lorax Dr. Seuss
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle

Poetry

• Devotions Mary Oliver

Artist's books

• Inventory of Parasite Actions and Soft Diversions Marianne Villiere

Tree ID (Summer and Winter)

Books

• Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast by Michael Wojtech
• Identifying Trees of the East: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America by Michael D. Williams
• Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Michael A Dirr

Zines (available in garden library)

• Trees New York Urban Bud & Bark Handbook: A xGuide to Winter Tree Identification
• Winter Tree Identification Key by Unviersity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point LEAF Program

Websites

• NYC Tree Map
• Green-Wood Cemetery Tree Map
• Prospect Park Treekeeper
• r/TreeIdentification

Articles

• https://nysufc.org/winter-tree-id-bark-buds-and-needle-leaves/2024/01/24/
• https://www.nycgovparks.org/learn/trees-and-plants/how-to-identify-trees-beyond-the-leaves
• https://naturalareasnyc.org/how-to-identify-5-nyc-trees-by-winter-terminal-buds/

Classes

• Trees NY Citizen Pruner class
• Events on NYC Parks calendar

Apps

• Plant.net (can identify bark)
• iNaturalist