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Become a member of Green Guerillas by making a donation

Please join today. You will support our work and we will send you invitations to community garden events, invite you to garden workdays, and welcome you to our annual meeting.

Members also receive discounts at a number of retailers and a subscription to our newsletter, Vitis Vine.

Our members are people from all walks of life --gardeners, teachers, students, artists, lawyers, businesspeople, and activists -- who all care about New York City and want to support our efforts to cultivate community and improve the urban environment.

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Join a Community Garden

Want to join a community garden in New York City?

The best way to help NYC’s community gardens is to become an active member of one in your neighborhood. Green Guerillas can help you connect to a garden near you.

Green Guerillas and Community Gardens

Green Guerillas does not manage or own any community gardens. Our mission is to support the work of NYC’s community gardeners. We encourage you to become a garden member. It is a great way to:

-Meet your neighbors and build community
-Improve local environmental conditions that affect your health
-Gain access to fresh locally grown vegetables, fruits and herbs
-And much more...

Three Steps to Join a Garden

Warning: This may not be an easy process and will definitely require a fair amount of work on your part. However, if you stick to it you will certainly be rewarded.

Identify Community Gardens in Your Area
Visit www.oasisnyc.org. Although this website is clunky and out of date, it is still the best map of NYC’s community gardens available online. Click on the “CENYCCommunityGardens” link Map your neighborhood You can zoom in or out on the map to identify the exact locations of the gardens near you. (They should be labeled with green text.) Print out a map or make notes of the locations of the gardens near you

Visit the Gardens
Take a walk to visit all the gardens you identified. The best time to walk around will be on weekends or evenings when gardeners are likely to be out gardening, weather permitting. If gardeners are inside – go in and introduce yourself. Ask them to tell you about their garden and give you a tour. Offer to help out in some way. That will demonstrate your commitment as well as give you a chance to see what it is like to garden there. Ask about their membership policy and how to join. If the garden is locked - look for a sign that lists that garden’s regularly scheduled open hours. Try to return at a time when the garden is open so that you can meet the gardeners.Also, look for a sign with a phone number for a garden contact that you may be able to reach.

Sign Up and Be Flexible
Every garden has its own membership and dues policy, plots procedures, etc. The best way to get involved is to meet the gardeners directly and have them explain to you how things work at that garden. Just as every NYC neighborhood is unique, so is every community garden. Being flexible in what you can do to work with the garden and its current members will make your experience a more lasting one. If you have completed all of the above steps and still have been unable to contact the gardeners, let us know. If you can provide us specific information, including the names and locations of the gardens that you are interested in joining we will put you in touch with the garden coordinators for those specific gardens.

Good luck!

find a garden

There are over 600 community gardens in New York. This interactive map includes 100 of the city’s most vibrant and active gardens.

If you’d like to look further for gardens near you, visit the Oasis map

GreenThumb can also help connect you to garden leaders.

links

Service Providers:

GreenThumb

Council on the Environment of NYC

Bronx GreenUp

Brooklyn GreenBridge

Trust for Public Land

New York Restoration Project

Neighborhood Open Space Coalition

Just Food

Advocacy Groups:

NYC Community Gardens Coalition

More Gardens

American Community Gardening Association

Land Trusts:

Brooklyn Queens Land Trust

Manhattan Land Trust

Bronx Land Trust