The Fifth Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival

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“As I floated lonely down the street one day

Who did I see slippin’ my way?

Slum Goddess from the Lower East Side

Slum Goddess gonna make her my bride” The Fugs

The LUNGS Harvest Arts Festivals celebrate the poetry/anarchy/history and culture of the Lower East Side.

The Fifth Annual LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) Harvest Arts Festival will take place in 38 community gardens on Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25, 2016.

The Festival is free and open to all. Events include music, dance, performance, films, photography, painting, sculpture, puppets, and comedy as well as environmental workshops and yoga. Each garden designs its own programing, so the festival is as interesting and eclectic as the Lower East Side.

The 2016 Harvest Arts Festival is organized by LUNGS

(Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens), a nonprofit organization founded to promote, protect and preserve the community gardens on the Lower East Side.

For more information go to LUNGSNYC.Org

 

 

LUNGS MONTHLY MEETING

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This Saturday, June 11, our monthly LUNGS meeting will take place at 11am at DeColores Garden, E.8th St Btwn Aves B & C.

If the weather turns nasty we will have the meeting inside, at 428 E.10th St between Aves C & D. Please send a garden rep to the meeting there is much to discuss.

We are going to begin this year’s LUNGS CSA next Sunday, June 19 at Campos Garden E.12th St between Aves B & C.

This is the fourth year that LUNGS has sponsored a CSA. Once again we are working with the Acevedos Family of Orange county as our primary suppliers.

To prepare for this year’s CSA we will be making special stylish LUNGS tote bags at a workshop this Sunday, June 12.  

Our sewing machines will begin needling at noon at 428 E.10th St between Aves C & D. These custom-made bags will carry all your fresh goody produce home all season.

The workshop is gonna be so much fun.  Design, fashion, broccoli, it’s all there. If you come to the workshop you can have a unique LUNGS tote bag for free.  Extra bag creations will be available for purchase at the CSA beginning June 19.

We need to get the names and money for the first CSA by Tuesday, June 14 to place our order. Once again it’s $10 a week for about 10 pounds of produce. It’s on a week to week basis, you pay for the following week as you pick up your order.  The first week is always a bit rough getting the orders correct, in so please respond to this email if you would like to get a bag June 19.

Here’s the 2016 LUNGS CSA delivery sites
June 19 & 26—Campos, 12th St near Ave C

July—Campos, 12th St near Ave C

August—Green Oasis, 8th St between Aves C&D

September—TBA

October—La Plaza, 9th St & Ave C

November—De Colores, 8th St between Aves B&C

The SAIFEE HARDWARE Offer
There has been some confusion,This is the deal:
Saifee Hardware 114 First Ave at 7th St. is offering a 10% discount on any purchase through 2016 to LUNGS gardeners.

They require the gardener’s name, garden affiliation and email to be eligible for the discount.

Please respond to this email with a list of your gardeners who want to receive the discount.

At first purchase you will receive a discount card after the cashier verifies that your name is on the list. Saifee will be sending out special offers via email throughout the year to gardeners.

For your garden to be in good standing with LUNGS there is yearly garden membership fee of $10. To join the list simply pay the garden membership fee.
Current Gardens in good standing are:
El Sol Brillante               6B Garden
DeColores                       El Jardin
Orchard Alley                  Campos
Miracle Garden                Creative Little Garden
Green Oasis                      LaGuardia Corner Garden
Relaxation Garden           11BC

DIRT Deliveries–we need to discuss the final phase of our dirt program at the LUNGS meeting this Saturday.

Wet and Lusty May is upon us

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Hey Lungsters, we are having our monthly meeting this  Saturday May 7,  at 10 am at DeColores Garden E.8^th St Btwn Aves B & C. It is supposed to be sunny on Saturday but if the weather is nasty we will meet at 428 E.10th St Between C & D.

We have a lot on the agenda so we will be getting to it quickly.

Spring Awakening Revisited–We need to discuss the Spring Awakening, to figure out what went right and what can be improved on.

LUNGS Grants and money status–What we have and what we don’t, receipts are still being collected for last year’s LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival, and what we need to do going forward.

CSA–we need to start gearing up for the CSA program this summer. Volunteers needed.

SYEP –Summer Youth Employment Program, we are again working with students in the gardens in conjunction with Gardens Rising.

Community Garden District– discussion of the where it stands.

Gardens Rising –updates and discussion

LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival– is scheduled for September 24 & 25, we need to begin planning now and set up a Festival committee.

EXCHaNGE–There is dirt, compost, mulch and trees available for community gardens, by combining efforts we can facilitate distribution. What do you have to offer, what does your garden need?