The document describes the Riis Community Garden project from April to September 2012. It details how Riis seniors planted raised beds and containers in April and July, producing tomatoes, beans, calaloo, okra, radishes, cucumbers, squash, watermelon, herbs and flowers. It also discusses the early planting of a kitchen garden in May with tomatoes, peppers, herbs and flowers, and its cleanup in September. A new butterfly garden was prepared and planted in May and July with native, drought-tolerant plants, and weeded and mulched in August. The garden facilitated cross-cultural interaction between seniors and immigrants through gardening sessions from June to September and an ethnography of food project
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1. Riis Community Garden (2012)
April 2012
BEFORE Raised Beds & Containers
July 2012
Raised Beds & Containers Planted by Riis Seniors:
tomatoes, beans, calaloo, okra, radishes, cucumbers, squash,
watermelon, herbs, and flowers
September 2012
Riis Senior proud
of her okra ready
for harvesting
Presentation by: Robert Madison, Director of Senior Services
2. Riis Community Garden (2012)
April 2012
BEFORE Kitchen Garden
May 2012
Early Planting of Kitchen Garden by Riis Seniors:
tomatoes, peppers, herbs (basil, epazote, oregano, parsley, cilantro,
rosemary, lavender, mint), and flowers (marigolds, salvia, zinnias)
September 2012
Kitchen Garden Clean-up
by Riis Senior & NY
Cares Volunteers: making
room for fall cool crops
3. Riis Community Garden (2012)
Greening Queensbridge
May 2012
BEFORE Butterfly Garden
July 2012
Riis Seniors & NY
Cares Volunteers
Preparing & Planting
New Butterfly Garden
August 2012
NY Cares Volunteer
Weeding & Mulching New
Butterfly Garden
(native, drought-tolerant plants:
butterfly bush, anise hyssop,
coreopsis, echinacea)
6. Riis Community Garden (2012)
Basil Pesto Demonstration
By Riis Senior & Riis CG consultant (and
help from NY Cares Volunteers) August 2012
Calaloo Tasting
Prepared by Riis Senior
[center] with calaloo from her Riis
7. Just Food Workshop on Herbal
Remedies:
Riis Seniors and Immigrant Participants Sampling Herbal Ice Tea
(below, left) and Making an Echinacea Tincture (below, right)
July 2012
Riis Community Garden (2012)
Editor's Notes
After interviewing Ms. Williams, Malakah wrote: "Today I spoke with Bessie Williams. She was very nice and respectful. I learned that she was born in North Carolina and was raised different from the way I was raised. For example, she was raised on a farm and had coal heaters, grew tobacco, and picked cotton."
