Celebrate the sites along the beautiful Bronx River during Bronx Week 2023! This tour will visit the longstanding and productive River Garden, one of the oldest community gardens in the Bronx which features large productive beds and sustainable gardening practices including rainwater harvesting and composting, and provides seasonal community events for all. Next we’ll walk to Starlight Park where you’ll enjoy a healthy food tasting and learn more about the Bronx River where dolphins were spotted earlier this year! We’ll close off the tour at the nearby Concrete Plant Park, a former concrete plant that now hosts the Bronx River Foodway, one of NYC’s only edible food forest, growing food and medicinal plants.
Saturday, May 13 • 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Meet at River Garden at E.180th Street and Devoe Avenue, Bronx starting at 10 a.m., Tour starts at 10:30am.
(Note, there is a 20 minute walk between River Garden and Starlight Park.)
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Estimated Schedule:
10:30-11:15Â River Garden
11:30 Starlight Park
12:30 Concrete Plant Park
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In partnership with B-Blossom Catering, Bronx Green-Up/NYBG, Bronx River Alliance, Montefiore-Einstein, NYC Parks GreenThumb, Office of the Borough President, and River Garden.
