Thank you for joining RIOC and @idig2learn in the 1-year anniversary celebration of “The Manhattan Healing Forest,” the first pocket forest of its kind ever planted in NYC.
Photos: @gknyphoto courtesy of @iDig2Learn
Happy #cityofforestday2022 Local Girl Scouts, @grin_10044 & friends from 2017 started expanding the #urbanforest at Lighthouse Park #rooseveltisland with Monarch Butterfly beds and trees. They are all grown up now and the trees they planted keep growing too. Today as we celebrate with @forestforallnyc@treesny@cpfnyc@nycparks we recognize that a forest looks different across our state and city dwellers may only have space for mini-forests or street tree pits but no matter the petite size the impact is great. A tree planted today and cared for tomorrow will eat carbon dioxide all day long and “grow air” as an idig2learn student so nicely said. So today, on the inaugural City of Forest day celebrate the urban forest - there are over 50 events across all 5 Boros. And if you are on Roosevelt Island SAT 10/15 join us from 11am to 3pm to celebrate over 70 new newly planted baby trees and even join a tree walk with @treesny Sam Bishop at 2pm. We are excited that @chrisbisram_ will perform The Forests’ Embryo dance at 2:45pm and that @grin_10044 will talk compost at Noon. Meet our Coler friends from 1:30pm on. Check out urban naturalist Jack Burkhalter at 12:30pm and at 1pm learn to see the trees and flowers and draw a postcard with artist Thom Heyer. Thanks to @rooseveltislandny@citizenscommittee@grownyc@bigreuse@openspaceinstitute@nycpollinators@islandkidsri@rigc_communitygarden@rooseveltislandlibrary@rooseveltislander and the volunteers from NYU, Scot’s baseball and the Youth Center and many residents for supporting this urban forest celebration today! #community
🧑🏽🌾 MICRO GRANT AWARDS! $10,000 to 10 NYC urban growers who are increasing their capacity to provide nourishing food, education, growing skills, and spaces to cultivate community for NYC residents.
Follow their pages to support and participate in their offerings!
🥕Every applicant can activate funding for their projects - the more we uplift the power of urban agriculture to our local city, state, and federal policy and budget hearings, the better for all of us.
🌻 Look out this summer and fall to learn more about what groups are doing to increase access to food and land in NYC.
🍄🟫Thank you to the selection committee for their work in co-creating an application and selection process for our first ever round of micro grants. FSNYC is committed to move this funding from the USDA and directly into the hands of land stewards here on Lenape land.
#urbanfarming #farmbill #grants #urbanagriculture #communitycapacitybuilding
Ecological engineer (PhD) and best selling author Nadina Galle traveled from the Netherlands last November to interview us for her podcast @internetofnature_ She wanted to learn more about our joint venture @sugiproject pocket forest. We are thrilled that this Nat Geo Explorer & Forbes 30 under 30 leader came to see the Manhattan Healing Forest. And how fitting that the podcast is now available just a week after our toddler forest turns 2 years old. Take a listen to learn more about the exceptional partners who made NYS’s first #miyawakiforest and the deep community engagement that continues to grow. We were thrilled to meet new forest friends Andy Travis, @naturalurbanforests@smunitee Marilee Smunitee Jones a Yakama leader from Washington State and her family and Curtis Zunigha of #lenapecenter and continue to collaborate with @coumansmhadrien and Joe Baker to build out this Tekenink atam forest with partners @rooseveltislandny
Thank you @grin_10044@bigreuse@earthmatterny@historicgreenwood@treesny@nycpollinators@forestforallnyc for providing the foundation working from the ground up we could not do this without you and to @nystateparks@4freedomspark plus hundreds of community members and a quantum of local organizations that jumped in to restore the land. /pub/internetofnature/p/s7e5-new-york-citys-first-pocket?r=40vfja&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Thanks everyone for joining MOME for the live NYC Film Green Office Hours panel at this year's Winter Film Festival @WinterFilmAward , where experts spoke on Sustainable Filmmaking 101: Why It Matters and How to Get Started, moderated by @shira_gans ! @ashleybrookecohen@idig2learn
Learn more about #NYCFilmGreen and how the city works with local film and TV productions to adopt environmentally responsible practices: nyc.gov/filmgreen
February 14th Bellies, Bins and Beauty event focused on spices. Another reason to love plant seeds, nuts and bark.
Thank you Louella @sweetlygathering for sharing the healing power of spices with us. We enjoyed Masala (Mix Spices) Chai, Pakoras, Orange Olive oil spice cake, Cumin Lemon cookies and Rose Falooda.
Warming spices - cinnamon, ginger, cloves, black pepper, cumin, nutmeg and allspice -increase circulation and create heat in the body which is good in winter.
We loved learning about techniques to roast, infuse, grind and temper (Tadka) spices.
Learning best practices such as buying small quantities and favoring whole spices which last 2 years compared to 3 to 6 months for pre-ground spices help us get maximum flavor. Storing spices in air-tight glass in a dry, dark area is best.
Thanks to Gloria & Cornell Tech students Anusha, Jay, Sandeep and Sarah for volunteering. And to partners Foodtown and the Older Adult Center plus individual donors who made this iDig2Learn event possible. #spices
Metro Hort’s Plant-o-rama 2026 warmed us up with great ideas, new connections and seeds for spring. Thanks to all the organizers who make this such a meaningful gathering each January. Brooklyn Botanic is a true NYC gem - just beautiful year round! #plantorama2026
21 months old, two summers lived, soon to enter a third spring, NYC’s 1st Miyawaki Method pocket forest - Manhattan Healing Forest - seems dormant yet look closely at promising buds. Today’s check in was a joy. Fallen leaves add to the incredibly bouncy sponge-like soil mixed with @bigreuse compost. @historicgreenwood wood chips are holding beautifully, a protective blanket holding in winter rains trees store for long hot summers ahead. Thank you to all who made this happen @sugiproject@naturalurbanforests #lenapecenter @smunitee@grin_10044@rooseveltislandny and hundreds of volunteers who planted on April 6th, 2024 and enjoyed @jody_sperling@time_lapse_dance performance. #miyawaki
