A quick look at what we’ve done at Bissel Garden and what’s planned for the 2024 season. There’s lots more planned and plenty of time to get your shovel in the ground!
Calendar
CG Volunteers – Monthly 1st Saturday 11-2
Gardeners Meeting – Monthly 1st Saturday at 11am
CG Pot Luck – Monthly 3rd Sunday 4 pm
Sorority Volunteer Service Day May 2024
NYRP Tree Giveaway May 2024
Bissel Garden Spring Plant Up with State Senator Jamaal T. Bailey May 2024 for Kids & Seniors.
Veterans Memorial Day Celebration May 25, 2024
Junteenth – June 19, 2024
NYRP Oyster Mushroom Workshop – TBA
4th of July – Moor Event
Fall Get together – Labor Day September 2, 2024
Halloween – October 31, 2024
Veteran Appreciation – Veteran’s Day – November 11, 2024
Community Greens @ Bissel (Formerly Propagation)
Community Garden Propagation & Sharing
Veteran’s Garden Project
BUTTERFLY GARDEN Perennials for butterflies and other pollinators in our 60’ X 6’ full sun garden.
From Garden Towers to Earthboxes
Composting
The Vegetable Grill Kitchen
Hoop Houses
Propagation
Cherry Tree Patio
Wildflowers & Sedum
Fruit Trees & Bushes
Drip Watering
Water Collection
Green Roof
Mushrooms
Handicap Toilet
VEGETABLES: (SEE BED LIST) includes tomatoes, peppers (poblano, serrano, hot and sweet), eggplant, Three Sisters (corn, beans, squash, cucumbers, watermelon, squash, zucchini, okra,
HERBS: At least a dozen, labeled to help gardeners identify, care for and use common herbs.
Children’s Garden
Bissel Lawn – Activity Area
Kids games
Kids planting/growing activities
Stretching/Yoga/Fitness
Art/Drawing
Our Kids Read
Gazebo
Handicap Accessible Beds
Composting
Shade Garden
Garden Art Project
THE BUZZ – Beekeeping!
Ely Ave Garden
Serenity Garden spruced up by NYRP and other volunteers.
Community Garden
Shiitake Mushroom workshop and project. 25-30 Vego beds available to community gardeners on an allotment basis.
Beekeeping continues.
Grace Ave Garden
Tree planting and other shrubs added by NYRP in September 2024.
Food For Others
NYRP adds handicapped accessible path shade structure, seats/benches and 25-30 beds September 2024. All of the food grown here is donated at the end of the season to Part of the Solution (POTS) by Steve Ritz, Green Bronx Machine.
Edson Ave Forest
Forest Project – NYRP adds path, understory trees and bushes.
Bissel Mews
Makeover in September 2024 by NYRP including Fruit Trees and shrubs creating the Bissel Edible Forest. Also, a handicapped accessible path from Baychester Ave to Edson Ave.
Farmers Market @ Bissel
Hope to have more Farmers, Food Demos and other vendors.
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