The Green Space program creates manuals and how-to guides for community groups, schools, and residents to learn about green infrastructure techniques like rainwater harvesting, building garden elements like raised beds, shade structures, and seating, and horticultural techniques for community and backyard gardeners.
QUICK LINKS
RESILIENT GARDEN MANUAL
- Resilient NYC Community Garden Guide is a practical guide on making your garden more resilient and includes step-by-step guidelines to minimizing storm damage.
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE GUIDES
- Green Infrastructure Techniques contains detailed information about the conservation strategies detailed in our online toolkit.
- Our Rainwater Harvesting How-To Guide will teach you how to build a rainwater harvesting system of your own.
- Building plans for a Winged Structure, which you can build in your garden and use as a rainwater collection source.
- Rainwater Calculation Tables: Formulas for calculating how many gallons of rainwater can be collected from a roof or structure.
- Our Rainwater Harvesting in NYC Community Gardens Map, showing where RWH systems are located throughout the city.
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden has put together a guide to Native Plants for New York City Rain Gardens.
GARDEN SURVEY
2010 Citywide Community Garden Survey
The 2009/2010 survey of community gardens was designed to update bg视讯’s central database of community gardens, update OASIS, and create new datasets around issues like food production and partnerships with schools.
Survey design, implementation, and analysis were completed by Mara Gittleman, 2009 Compton Mentor Fellow, funded by the Compton Foundation, with bg视讯's Lenny Librizzi, bg视讯. Responses used in this report were collected from August 2009 to July 2010, with a total of 223 survey respondents.
CITY LOT FACT SHEETS
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Month to Month Gardening Schedule: what you should be doing every month to get the most out of your garden.
