In the summer of 2017, Jerome Park Friends and Neighbors began weeding the planting beds around Jerome Park Reservoir starting in Fort Independence Park. We quickly found our niche and by the Fall of 2017 we were meeting every Sunday morning to pull weed trees, put down mulch and meet our neighbors. In 2018, we have continued our work in Fort Independence and have started spreading to the planting beds along Sedgwick Avenue to the park at the southern tip of the Jerome Park Reservoir, Washington's Walk. We continue to meet most Sunday's from Easter to Halloween and we are entirely volunteer, with a diverse group of people who come regularly plus the additional support of students, community groups and lovers of gardening across the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.

In 2018, we secured a grant from the City Parks Foundation which allowed us to purchase tools and a storage chest to store them for easy access. This has sped up our work immeasurably. 

With your donation, we will be able to move on to the next stage which is replacing the plantings in Fort Independence which were killed by weeds and neglect. With this money we can fill in spaces where there is a bare patch of ground. This will make the park more beautiful and give the weeds even less space to grow!