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 
 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 
 
 Events 
 
 Creatures nyc mailing list 
 NYC Parks event list

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 
 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 
 Bringing Nature Home 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