November Happenings
This is our last month of the season. We will close the garden to the public at Thanksgiving. We will reopen again next May!
Upcoming events
All of our events are free and open to the public.
At garden meetings, you can meet other garden members, learn how to get involved, and become a member. At garden workdays, all are welcome, no experience necessary. Tasks include pruning, weeding, composting, and repairs.
- Sunday November 1, 11am-12pm: Garden meeting.
- Sunday November 1, 12pm-2pm: Garden workday.
- Saturday, November 14, 4pm-7pm: Life of a Skeeter. In the spirit of halloween we want to play with what scares us most: Mosquitos! We plan to hold an event that includes workshops and roaming puppet performances where event goers will learn about mosquitos and various environmental forces that affect them (and us). We plan to serve vegan blood soup, teach about plant identification, talk about the problems of ALAN (artificial light at night) and learn about the mosquito life cycle. Hosted by the Uranium Girls.
- Sunday November 15, 11am-12pm: Garden meeting.
- Sunday November 15, 12pm-2pm: Garden workday.
- Sunday November 22, 2-3:30pm: Public Activation of "The Weight of Disappearance". A site-specific performative activation of my ongoing project, The Weight of Disappearance. This project features a 170-lb sculpture—cast in the footprint of my apartment using a custom, water-soluble binder of tapioca starch, sand, and native seeds from Taiwan, Toronto, and New York, meant to be planted in the three neighborhoods I've lived in in NYC. The event serves as a public introduction to this work before it is sited elsewhere near the FDR in the East Village/LES to undergo a process of biological dissolution and germination. Hosted by Matthew Li.
Some things we worked on last month
- Hosting natural dye workshops and the final exhibition of the artist-in-residence program, Kotodama: Weaving Words and Nature.
- Building, sanding, and finishing a bench using our woodworking workshop.
- Decorating for Halloween and trick-or-treating.
At the Garden
The Virginia creeper is turning red! Virginia creeper is a native woody vine often seen climbing trees and buildings around the city. It climbs with adhesive pads at the tips of its tendrils, like gecko feet.
See you at the garden,
Catherine