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Kids get down to the beat at a music program that included dancing and singing at the Baldwin Civic Association's community garden earlier this month. Judy Leff of While They're Little - Music … more

8/20/15

Wolf Cats played the night away with their folk acoustic blues grass rock n roll tunes from many different eras. Richard Hefner - acoustic, Mike Leuci-percussion, Bob Bernstein-mandeline, acoustic and is the lead of the band, Aaron Bernstein (fiddle) David Gilbmabn-bass.

Sounds of summer at community garden

On a perfect Saturday evening recently, a group of Baldwin residents hung out and soaked in the acoustic sounds of the 1970s at the Baldwin Community Garden, at 1980 Grand Ave. The second concert … more

8/6/15

Don’t call it a comeback

A lot has changed on Long Island since the late 1800s, beyond the fact that there are a few more Dunkin’ Donuts these days. Long Island, like much of the East Coast, was once filled with American chestnut trees. Half the trees in some woods were chestnuts — but then things started to change. more

By Brian Croce | 9/24/14

Beds already exist on the property, but the conservancy is looking to increase the number this weekend.

Growing flowers and fellowship

Green-thumbed village residents will find a new place to gather and plant on Saturday, when the Rockville Centre Conservancy unveils its first community garden. It is located at the junction of … more

By John Maher | 4/17/13

First-grader Sonny Stellmann picked radishes at the Park Avenue community garden while classmate Eliana Zagar runs by.

Out of the classroom and into the garden at Park Avenue Elementary School

“The way you know a radish is ready to pick is that they show themselves,” Park Avenue Elementary School kindergarten teacher Robin Obey told first-graders last Friday morning. Students eagerly dug through the dirt, pulling out radishes by the dozen and tossing them into a nearby basket. A garden bed over, other first-graders pinched at spinach plants, pulling off the tender leaves. The class wasn’t taking place at a farm, but outside the school’s doors at Park Avenue’s community garden. more

By Deirdre Krasula | 5/18/12

Lynbrook Community Gardens founder Tony Lenzo died on June 23. His funeral procession passed by the garden.

Community Gardens harvest a tribute to the late Tony Lenzo

Tony Lenzo loved to plant and watch the Lynbrook Community Gardens grow. He loved harvest time, when the garden was overgrown with long, green zucchini (“gogoots,” in Lenzo parlance, pronounced with a thick Sicilian accent), purple-black eggplant, squash, red and green peppers, tomatoes, basil, okra, cucumbers and Lenzo’s favorite — sweet, ripe figs from his precious fig tree, which reminded him of Sicily, his birthplace. more

By Mary Malloy | 8/24/11

Wilbur Sanchez, an immigrant day laborer from Nicaragua, tended to the cucumber plants at the Freeport Work Hiring Trailer on a recent Thursday.

Freeport communal garden helps feed day laborers

On a recent sunny Thursday, Wilbur Sanchez spoke in slow, deliberate English as he pointed out vegetables amid the greenery fanning out around him. Sanchez noted the peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers hanging from tall plants in a red box before him. In a second box to his right were chives, oregano and lettuce. In the middle of the garden, watermelon vines looped in all directions. At the back, cornstalks popped out above still more pepper plants. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/3/11

Your own personal gardening coach!

As a busy New York City wife, mother and attorney, Stephanie Bhonslay was searching for ways to spend quality time with her family. Gardening came to mind. Her concept grew into an idea for a business: providing personal coaching in the joy and know-how of gardening. more

Teri-Ann Loeser | 5/14/10

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