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Q Gardens Awarded GreenThumb’s 2019 Sustainability Award

Posted on December 11, 2019March 19, 2020 by aschoene Posted in Uncategorized

We are so honored to have received GreenThumb’s 2019 sustainability award! Neighbor and friend, Nathan Thompson, was kind enough to write about it in this Bklyner article. The award is now on permanent display in the Q Gardens casita 🙂

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George Floyd was murdered May 25, 2020 by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. His murder was abetted by officers Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Keung, and Tou Thao. In recent weeks police or correctional officers have also murdered Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Jamel Floyd, David McAtee, and many others. These murders are not isolated instances but the logical result of a centuries long campaign of terror conducted by modern and pre-modern police forces against Black men, women, and GNC persons.⁣ ⁣ Shortly after Mr. Floyd’s murder Black individuals and organizations took to the streets of Minneapolis, sparking an uprising against the police that soon spread to over 400 cities in the United States, including more than a week of sustained protest here in Brooklyn. These protests are ongoing sites of collective rage, grief, and justice seeking. Police and public officials at all levels have responded to demands for action with draconian curfews, violent suppression, and mass arrest, with the worst abuses consistently reserved for Black protestors. ⁣ ⁣ In the past 11 days, as our neighbors have been harassed, assaulted, arrested, and terrorized, we at Q Gardens have done little to respond to the crisis of policing. As an organization whose membership is primarily White and Non-Black POC it is crucial that we respond in moments such as these to mitigate the potentially gentrifying effects of our community project. ⁣ In coming days and weeks, as uprisings continue, we will be using our social media platform to share mutual aid resources, donation links, information about protest times and locations, as well as physical and legal safety tips. ⁣ ⁣ A community garden cannot be an apolitical undertaking. In recognition of this fact, moving forward we commit to continue to engage with and share information about the many pronged fight for Black life. This information will include resources relevant to anti-gentrification, the movement against police brutality, and food security/sovereignty. It is our collective duty to join this fight.

Glad to have this space to post a message of solidarity ❤️

Thanks to everyone who made it out to our plant giveaway today! We hope you enjoy your new plant companions 🌱🌻 #communitygardening #mutualaid #solidarityeconomy

It's been heartbreaking to be closed to the public, but we are happy to announce that this Monday 2-4pm, we will be holding a socially distant plant giveaway in front of the garden! We will have everything from tomato and hot pepper seedlings to sunflowers, shiso, sunberries and northern sea oats. See you then! Don't forget your masks! 🌻🌱❤️ 😷 #sharingthebounty #mutualaid #gardeninginthetimeofcorona

It feels difficult to post about moments of beauty when so many in NYC and beyond are suffering. As small of a gesture as it may be, we dedicate this photo of QG's golden kiwi vine--which may be preparing to bear fruit for the first time ever--to all of the essential workers risking their lives to keep this city going. That includes all of the bus drivers, sanitation workers, health workers of every stripe, and so many more. ❤️ @nycsanitation

Big thanks to @East4thStreetCommunityGarden for providing us with some very fine compost for our spring veggies! Q Gardens still has mounds of ready compost to give away, but only for use on perennials (some plywood sawdust got mixed in with our browns :(). We’re loving this growing compost though! #compostsolidarity 🌱🍄🥕🥬

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