Below is a quick run-down of the workshops, their times, and our guest speakers.
PS – There will be bike demonstrations, so bring your bike! We will also be raffling off 2 rain barrels courtesy of Rutgers Water Resources Program as door prizes!
Here is the City Hall rotunda schedule for workshops:
11:00 – 11:15: Adopt A Lot “Growing Together” Introduction - Tanya Marione-Stanton, City Planning
11:15 - 11:45: Start a Community Garden! - Jennifer Papa, City Green
11:45 – 12:45: Backyard Composting - Virginia Lamb
1:15 - 1:30: Adopt A Lot “Growing Together” Introduction - Tanya Marione-Stanton, City Planning
1:30 - 2:00: Start a Community Garden! - Jennifer Papa, City Green
2:00 - 2:30: Composting Workshop - Robert Meyer
2:45 - 3:00: Adopt A Lot “Growing Together” Introduction - Tanya Marione-Stanton, City Planning
3:00 - 3:30: Start a Community Garden! - Jennifer Papa, City Green
3:30 -4:00: Composting Workshop: Using the Bokashi Method - Elizabeth Onorato
4:00 Closing
Children’s Garden:
Children planting from 12:00-3:00, Open to all children to come and plant a flower in the Jersey City Children’s Garden!
Demonstration Tables:
· Green Map
· Brunswick Community Garden
· Riverview Community Garden
· Jersey City Food Co-Op
· New Jersey City University
· Hudson County Community College
· Washington Park Association Education Alliance
· Bokashi Composting
· City Green/City Planning
Jersey City Parks Coalition
Tanya R. Marione-Stanton, AICP
Senior Planner
Division of City Planning
30 Montgomery Street, Suite 1400
Jersey City, NJ 07302
(201) 547-5488