Get Involved!

Bronx Health REACH is co-hosting an event with Transportation Alternatives next week to make it easy and fun to join your Community Board. Transportation Alternatives has held similar events in other boroughs, but this is the first time there will be a Community Board Join Up in the Bronx!

Anyone interested in learning aboutCommunity Boards in the Bronx is welcome to attend this free event. *Refreshments will be served.

Bronx Community Board Join Up
WHEN: Thursday, January, 10, 6:30pm - 8pm
WHERE: Cornell University Cooperative Extension, 432 East 149th Street, 4th Floor, Bronx, NY 

To RSVP call 212 633-0800 x1249 or go to www.transalt.org/cb

Upcoming Conferences!

NOFA’s 31^st Annual Organic Farming & Gardening Conference

January 25^-27^th, 2013

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NESAWG’s 20th Working Conference 

February 10-12th, 2013

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Just Food Conference

March 29^-30^th, 2013

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The conference will provide attendees with opportunities to learn about national farm and food issues, CSA trends, and cooking and food preservation techniques, as well as ways to mobilize communities in order to increase access to farm-fresh, locally grown food.

Grow More Vegetables Certificate Series

The New York Botanical Gardens is offering an edible gardening course designed to equip community gardeners, teachers, and city residents with the best organic techniques for growing vegetables safely and effectively, particularly in an urban setting. The program, with hands-on gardening instruction, consists of six classes, both in the classroom and in the field. Each student will have the opportunity to design his own urban vegetable gardening project as a component of the course. The projects are open-ended, with two main goals: to grow more food, and to pass on what you have learned to an identified group in your community.

Bronx series will be held on six Wednesdays, February 27–April 3 • The New York Botanical Garden, Watson Building • 6–8 p.m. • Deadline to apply is Monday, January 28

For more information, call Sara Katz at 718.817.8026 or e-mail skatz@nybg.org.