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The best kept secret in the Sara Roosevelt Park:

“Every year about this time, we pull the turtles out of the pond and move them indoors for the winter. It’s one of our small garden events of interest to children and adults alike and is actually a bit dramatic. We net the fish into tubs temporarily and pump most of the water out of the pond. Someone climbs down into the bottom of the pond and searches around in the muck for reluctant turtles, then passes them up to into tubs that we take to their winter quarters in the basement of my building.

Neither Richard, our turtle guru, nor I are spry enough to do it this year. Or more correctly, to climb back out. So I’m looking for a volunteer willing to get wet up to the knees and wallow around in the muck, and who will enjoy handling turtles. We’re expecting to find 20 turtles of all sizes, Cooters, Red Bellied Sliders, Yellow Bellied Cooters and 3 small Painted turtles. Let me know if you’re interested.

We’ll start around noon on Saturday, Oct. 23.”
Ted

Thank you Alisanne, Elizabeth, Jen, Jenifer and Bud! And Audubon NY for the binoculars (and of course thank the birds). (photographs by Jen, flyer by Alisanne)

Registration Period October 6 – November 3 2021

Sukkot Celebration at M’finda Kalunga Community Garden

Sunday, Sept 26, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Rivington Street b/t Forsyth & Chrystie

Please join the MK Community Garden and the Manhattan Workers Circle School

for a family celebration of the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot!

Parents and kids of all ages are invited to make sukkah decorations & learn Sukkot songs and traditions.

“Great to see such a happy event and so many people in the garden today. “

“Workers Circle was fantastic – welcoming, kind, respectful..”

NYTimes “Some devastating impacts of global warming are now unavoidable, a major new scientific report finds. But there is still a short window to stop things from getting even worse.”

Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years, though there is still a short window to prevent the most harrowing future, a major new United Nations scientific report has concluded.

Thanks to Alison, Jennifer, Bud, Colleen, Irit, Rainer, Sam, Diego, Sgt Kakit Yip, PO Urena, “man of steele” and Explorers, Paul, Christina, Chris and  – and everyone i’m forgetting!!

Beautiful day!

Photos Christina Tsang-Fox and K Webster

His work continues to beautify this neighborhood.

They ARE cute!!

“Outstanding Leadership and Volunteerism”

Long Time M’Finda Kalunga Gardener and Director of Education for “The Hort” received this well deserved honor for her tremendous work in the community from Council Member Chin.

Her work partnering with Emma Lazarus High School to care for the local environment with park clean ups and plantings, her solution- oriented empowerment of local communities in answer food insecurity by starting vegetable gardens and distributing fresh produce as well as organizing green job trainings.. and so much more.

The citation rightly refers to M’Finda Kalunga as her “backyard”.

In the tradition of Jane Goodall: “I have to go on doing it because I care passionately about nature. I care passionately about children.”

Our thanks to Pam.

From Pam Ito:

“This award is reminder that my work and my volunteer efforts in District 1 are not only seen, but celebrated.  This has lifted me up and paved my path in sunshine. Thank you.”