We are building a compost center and a vertical garden using recycled bottles and a wood frame and cable system. This will allow many gardeners to grow herbs, greens and flowers, and to beautify the neighborhood.
Leader
Justin Moore
Location
330 St. Nicholas Avenue New York, NY 10027
Impact areas
The Saint Nicholas Miracle Garden is a new kind of urban community garden with a strong public presence on a well-trafficked corridor in Central Harlem, just off of the famed 125th Street. Our garden takes advantage of its location to be both an environmental asset for the neighborhood, and a part of our community members’ lives. It promotes greening and environmental awareness, and serves to educate our neighbors and children in the community about gardening, healthy food, and sustainable living. In addition, the garden’s compact size and dense urban context gives us the opportunity to promote vertical urban gardening and test innovative methods for maximizing our shared space and resources. Our community and users work together to promote that community gardening should be visible, accessible and inclusive in order to help engender a more sustainable urban lifestyle.
The garden has been in planning for some time, coordianted by Harlem neighborhood volunteers and 596 Acres. We have a 4-year renewable NYC Parks Department GreenThumb license for the site and have developed a program for the garden, and incuding a vertical garden concept. We have a work day planned on May 19th to continue building out the first phase of the garden and we need funds for materials. Once the first phase is constructed we will cotinue to develop and build out the garden with our garden members, neighbors and supporters.
Benefits to our Harlem community:
