The Horticultural Society of New York

A giant THANK YOU to Council Member Hanif for supporting our horticultural beautification work as we help in district 39.

Swing by Kensington Green Triangle in the weeks to come as our new plantings bloom to life with the colors of late summer ✨🌺

It's summertime, and living is easy for NYC bees! 🐝😎

Our amazing students from the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers planted pollinator-friendly plants including Yarrow, Echinacea, Black-Eyed Susans, and Butterfly Bush to brighten up the garden and provide much-needed nectar for our local insects.

Check out the garden, the chickens, the fish and the beehive on the corner of Amsterdam and West 84th st.

Thank you for having us at the Annual Uptown Action Block Party!

Everyone who stopped by our table got to learn how to easily grow Microgreens at home using our special Microgreens grow kits. 👩🏾‍🌾

Let us know as they grow! Share a pic of your seedlings’ progress and tag us. Check out our link in bio to catch us at the next event!

to this Tuesday to our cooking class with .psa at the Greenhouse & Education Center! 👩🏽‍🍳

We learned about spice blends like Zatar, and made a delicious veggie broth from kitchen scraps and some yummy pan seared eggplant. 😋

Join us and Kim next week for more wholesome eats! Visit the link in bio for upcoming events. 🔗

New homes for the bees are now installed at !

We’ve been working hard this summer to expand the to new sites and we are so excited to now have bee bunkers and hotels at the beautiful Quisqueya plaza. 🐝

Thank you for stopping by to say Hi to our crew!

Here's a of all that's been on at the Greenhouse lately!

We welcomed campers into the garden to plant some seeds and share their wildest garden dreams. We celebrated our annual Bee Jubilee in partnership with Rutgers University, and students in that program marked 450 bees and taught everyone at the event how to take part in this community science initiative through the native bee survey. And our sunflowers and passion flowers bloomed! 🐝🌻

Want to visit us? Check out the link in bio to join us at the Greenhouse for one of our upcoming events!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table today at the Henry Street Settlement Summer Fun Fair!

Swipe to see instructions on how to grow and care for your microgreens kit. 🌱 Share your microgreens growth journey using and tag us!

Therapeutic horticulture to us means connecting people with the healing power of plants both through their practical self-care uses and their power to soothe and relax simply by working with them. 🌼

We had so much fun in our first round of therapeutic horticulture workshops at The Doe Fund Centers! We made mandarin sugar scrubs with safflower petals and jojoba oil to exfoliate and moisturize our skin.

We also browsed seed catalogs for our raised bed planning! More to come!

Are you a school teacher looking to engage your students in environmental science? Sign up for our teacher training courses this month to learn creative ways to bring plants into your classroom!

We're excited to offer two courses starting this month:

Urban Agriculture: Science, Justice, and Sustainability 🌱 This course will focus on best practices for growing vegetables and herbs in New York City Schools. We will share The Horticultural Society’s urban farm recommendations from soil to fork. These will include natural soil amendments, crops for small spaces (both seed and seedlings), integrated pest management practices, harvesting techniques and finally recipes for healthy eating.

Herbal Wisdom: Exploring Food, Family and Culture 🌽 Herbs have been used for centuries in medicine, religion, cooking, and health, offering benefits like food, healing, creativity, and cultural significance. This course will focus on exploring the world of herbs to understand botany, nutrition, culture, and climate change. Participants will learn how to cultivate and utilize herbs to enrich their curriculum and support culturally responsive education.

Registration links:
https://pci.nycenet.edu/aspdp/Course/Details/12840

https://pci.nycenet.edu/ASPDP/Course/Details/12290

Congratulations to our Senior Director of Business Development, Nick Guntli, for graduating from Coro New York Leadership Center's Neighborhood Leadership Program!

As Snr. Dir. of Business Development, Nick works closely everyday with many actors and partners of local communities, like Business Improvement Districts.

The skills he's refined and mastered through the Coro Neighborhood Leadership Program will help him create meaningful connections with community partners and help The Hort continue to !

is so much more than just a month. As June comes to a close we reflecting on our community with love and appreciation. 🏳️‍🌈

Here's a photo dump of some of our recent GitG gatherings. Thank you to all who help make these events special, especially our Greenhouse and Garden Manager, Diego Martins! 📸

Join us for our Pride Celebration this Sunday, June 30th 1-4pm. Details in bio!

The 40-bed farm at CAMBA Gardens ll is thriving! Residents have been enjoying tending to the seedlings growing right in their backyard. 🪴🥬🥒

We've been harvesting an abundance of sugar snap peas, lettuce mix, baby bok choy, turnips, and herbs for some delicious salads! Calendula and violas are popping and the bees are happily pollinating!

Join us for the Bee Jubilee on Saturday, July 13th 11am-2pm at the Greenhouse and Education Center! 🐝🥳

Learn about our native at-risk bee populations and participate in our annual Bee Scavenger Hunt to help us study the movement of native bees in NYC as part of the Pollinator Port Project.

In addition to the Bee Scavenger Hunt, we’ll have activities for all ages including educational pollinator games, rock painting and more!

This event is free and open to the public. Visit the link for details! https://www.thehort.org/event/the-pollinator-port-project-bee-jubilee/

You're invited to the very first Hort Pride Celebration 🏳️‍🌈 Sunday, June 20th 1-4pm at the Greenhouse and Education Center!

Celebrating and supporting our LGBTQ+ community, we will gather in the garden and have multiple activities led by q***r guest facilitators.

1-2pm Ear Seeding with Janelle
2-3pm Jewelry Making with Rocio
2-4pm Bedazzling in the Garden
3-4pm Garden Dance Celebration

Queer-folk and allies welcome. Activities available while supplies last. Visit link in bio for details.

We had a blast last week participating in the NYC Placemaking Roundtables with Placemakingus!

Here's a quick recap on all that went on:
We met new and familiar faces of the movers and shakers of the Public Realm in NYC and around the world!
We co-led tours of our Open Streets and Plazas to see real-life examples of Placemaking and Placekeeping in action.
We participated in Roundtable discussion with colleagues at all levels of Placemaking, form community leaders to city agencies, and spoke on the challenges and rewards of working in the Public Realm.

Click the link to watch the full discussion and hear from Sara Hobel and Liza Ehrlich, Executive Officer and COO of The Hort! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfnzlCcgi_A

Thank you again to Placemaking US and all participants for an insightful and inspiring few days!

NYC Public Realm Roundtable - Day 2: Place Governance & Funding The Public Realm Roundtable is a national gathering of government and supporting organizations who build, maintain and enliven public space.New York City’s M...

Happy plants and happy kids! PS 380 students got to taste the carrots they planted, as well as nibble on some baby lettuce.

Afterwards students learned how plants take in water through their roots. They practiced conserving water, a precious resource, by carefully watering the soil at the base of each plant rather than the leaves.

Happy Friday! Join us this Sunday, June 16th 1-3pm for the next Gay in the Garden with guest instructor Kim Caban.

It will be a lovely day of lemonade-making and cooking beef and veggie Pastelon with Kim. Yum!

We'll see you there! Link in bio for details.

Our 3rd grade class at PS 171 learned to identify and harvest mint and lemon balm, both of which grow in abundance in their school garden.

While waiting their turn to harvest, other students could be found exploring the soil for worms, and hugging trees! 🤗🌳 💚

Thanks for your support Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala!

In case you missed Gay in the Garden last Sunday, here's a recap!

Guest instructor DJ helped us start Pride off right with some mindful movement in the garden. And everyone enjyed some nourishing juices made from fresh produce picked fresh from the garden beds.

Thank you to all who joined, q***rfolk and allies alike! Stay tuned for updates for the next on June 16! 🏳️‍🌈

For multicultural night at PS 15, families planted flowers, vegetables and herbs with us in the school's newly renovated garden that helped build! 🧑🏽‍🌾

They also got to take some herb plants home to add to their indoor garden at home. Yum! 😋 Thank you to Council member Carlina Rivera!

Can you believe month starts tomorrow!? 😲🏳️‍🌈

Come kick off pride month with us at Gay In the Garden this Sunday, June 2nd 1-3pm!

We'll enjoy some nourishing juices made straight from our garden and be joined by guest instructor DJ for some mindful movement amid the flowers and foliage. Visit the link for details.

https://www.thehort.org/event/gay-in-the-garden-4/

We spent a beautiful afternoon at In Tech Academy in the Bronx doing a plant install with the middle and high school students, beautifying the entrance to the school! 🌼🌞

We planted coleus, mint, echinacea, and lavender and sage. Many students ended the class saying they wanted to do more!

Thank you to Council Member Eric Dinowitz for your support!

In honor of a 'Berry' special birthday, we brought Scents of Spring to celebrate Berry Open Street!

With summer around the corner, we can't wait for all the programming events we have planned. More to come! Thanks to all who helped make it a special day!

We got in back in the beautiful rooftop garden beds at PS 161 earlier this week!

Students familiarized themselves with the plants using smell, touch and taste in a sensory plant exploration while also planting new additions to the garden. 🌱

Thank you City Council Member Shaun Abreu for your support!

Last Friday we were at the 'Murray Hill Blooming' event helping to beautify the corridor by planting new flowers in tree pits! 🌻

This is the first of a series of community beautification events hosted by the Asian American Federation in Queens! We can't wait for the next one!

On Tuesday, Council Member Christopher Marte joined us and our partners from the City Hall Park Conservancy for our Spring Perennial Planting at City Hall Park.

We got our hands in the dirt and planted some flowering perennials, and played with worms! 🪱

There's nothing like this time of year when we return to our gardens to awaken the soil and nurture the beauty of spring blooms. 🌸☀️

And there's no greater joy for us than sharing this time with young people and introducing them to plants!

Thank you Councilmember Lincoln Restler!

Last week we spent a day in the garden with the students of PS 380 planting marigolds and herbs! 🌿

Thank you Council Member Lincoln Restler for partnering with us to make this work possible!

We recently planted 4 new street trees in Rego Park!

It was absolutely wonderful working and learning alongside the new HORTNYC cohort, who joined us onsite that day for a training.

Thank You for helping to expand NYC's tree canopy and !

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Did you know that HORTNYC stands for Horticulture and Open Streets Resident Training in NYC? This Hort program provides paid work and training opportunities to New Yorkers looking to strengthen their employment skills in fields that support a sustainable and green city.

Visit us at thehort.org -> Programs -> Workforce Development to learn more!

With the start of warmer weather, we're back outside bringing to public spaces throughout NYC! ☀️😎

This year we have a fun new plant-focused program: Propagation Station! 🌱

Learn how to turn one plant into many and take one home with you! Thank you to North Flatbush Avenue Business Improvement District for having us! Visit our website and keep an eye out for upcoming public events we'll be at.

https://www.thehort.org/public-events/