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January 19, 2017 Your Greenmarkets
If you're like us then you can't wait to take a break from the world and visit a market this weekend to give yourself an opportunity to breathe deep, take in all of the sights, smells, sounds, and flavors, and visit with your neighbors and farmers. We were recently...
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Community Gardens
January 04, 2017 An Interview with Efrain Estrada from United We Stand Community Garden
On East 137th and 138th Streets in the South Bronx, four contiguous community gardens flourished for more than 25 years. Hundreds of Mott Haven residents tended to flowers, grew food, and met one another. Then, in 2015, a fire broke out in the neighborhood, burning...
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Greenmarket
November 10, 2016 Curl a Rutabaga in Union Square!
Join us for Greenmarket's First Annual Rutabaga Curling Competition! Union Square Greenmarket Union Square Park - North End Friday, December 9th 12pm - 3pm This event is during the Union Square Friday Greenmarket and is free and open to the public for attending,...
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Greenmarket
August 12, 2016 Governor Announces Greenmarket Food Hub
This week, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced New York State's investment of $15 million in the construction of a new Greenmarket Regional Food Hub in the Bronx. The hub, which will be used by GrowNYC's GrowNYC Wholesale program, will be a state-of-the-art 120,000...
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Greenmarket
July 15, 2016 GrowNYC Launches Oh SNAP! Campaign
On Monday, July 11, we launched the “Oh SNAP!” (#ohsnapnyc) educational campaign with a live mural painting on one of our Greenmarket, Co. deilvery trucks by artist, Queen Andrea, at the Union Square Greenmarket. The “Oh SNAP!” campaign was designed to draw attention...
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Community Gardens
July 05, 2016 4 New Gardens Bloom in NYC
GrowNYC's garden program has had a busy first half of 2016! Among other things, we've built four new community gardens, totaling 40,000 square feet of new open space. Here's the skinny:Windmill Community Garden A vacant lot in Long Island City - who would have...
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