Roots of Peace Community Garden Project

We are college students from New Jersey planning to initiate a community garden project in the Parkhill/Stapleton area of Staten Island, NY. Parkhill is home to the largest population of Liberian refugees outside of West Africa. The surrounding communities contain a diverse group of members from a variety of economic backgrounds and ethnicities. We intend to work with community members and volunteers to create a safe, productive, and eventually self-sufficient space to grow great food!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The Parkhill Community Garden is pleased to announce its newest partnership with Healthfirst, a New York City based group that works to improve the health of undeserved populations.

In other news our proposed garden project was selected as a finalist for the Davis Peace Projects Grant! We are working on making revisions to our budget/proposal and will find out March 11, 2011 if our project is selected.