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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 Roosevel...

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 C...

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 Ca...

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) Tr...

Introduction You're walking around the city and you encounter some plants - maybe a park, a community garden, a street tree, abandoned lot, maybe a weed growing in a sidewalk crack. There are maybe some animals and insects as well. What sorts of plants are the...