# Resources

# 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(vol)
    - 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

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">General community gardening skills: The GreenThumb website provides online resources and a variety of workshops on skills ranging from carpentry to garden design.</span>

[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.nycgovparks.org/greenthumb/resources</span></u>](https://www.nycgovparks.org/greenthumb/resources)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking care of tree beds: The Street Tree Care Captain webinar provides an introduction of tree bed care. </span>

[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.nycgovparks.org/reg/advanced-stewardship</span></u>](https://www.nycgovparks.org/reg/advanced-stewardship)

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

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Youtube channel: </span>[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">GrowitBuildit</span></u>](https://www.youtube.com/@growitbuildit)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, amazing in-depth videos about specific native plants, soil quality/soil testing, garden design, installation and maintenance tips, and more</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Youtube channel: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"> Reddit: </span>\[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">/r/NativePlantGardening</span></u>\](https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span>\[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">r/invasivespecies</span></u>\](https://www.reddit.com/r/invasivespecies/)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span>[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Xerces Society has incredible, detailed resources</span></u>](https://xerces.org/pollinator-resource-center/mid-atlantic)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"> on pollinator conservation from site establishment, planting, plant selection, assessment, and so on.</span>

- [<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">New York Native Planting Guide</span></u>](https://static.nycgovparks.org/images/pagefiles/203/NYC-Parks-Native-Species-Planting-Guide-4th-Edition__6787ce9c83f47.pdf)
- [<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">GrowNYC Resilient Gardens Guide</span></u>](https://www.grownyc.org/files/osg/ResiliencyManual_ForWeb.pdf)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">You can also join the </span>[<u><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">NYC Pollinator Working Group</span></u>](https://www.nycpollinators.org/)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;"> mailing list.</span>

# Library

### Reference books
- Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes Thomas Rainer &amp; Claudia West
- The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees Joseph S. Wilson &amp; Olivia Messinger Carril
- Botany for Gardeners Brian Capon
- Wild NYC Ryan Mandelbaum
- Mending Life Nina and Sonya Montenegro

### 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 &amp; Bark Handbook: A xGuide to Winter Tree Identification
- Winter Tree Identification Key by Unviersity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point LEAF Program

Websites

- [NYC Tree Map](https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/)
- [Green-Wood Cemetery Tree Map](https://gardens.green-wood.com/portal/apps/experiencebuilder/experience/?id=6ba13c738a2340e5bc4bc987f72cf2ba&page=Page-1&views=Intro)
- [Prospect Park Treekeeper](https://prospectparkny.treekeepersoftware.com/index.cfm?deviceWidth=1920)
- r/TreeIdentification

Articles

- [https://nysufc.org/winter-tree-id-bark-buds-and-needle-leaves/2024/01/24/](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://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/](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