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We strive for inquiry-based solutions at the juncture of food, environmental and social justice utili

06/01/2026

🌞 Making progress in time for the JBOLC Market Season.

We've been working to transform the community garden into an Educational Garden of Cultural Heritage, growing culturally relevant plants to share with our community.

Shoutout to CitizensNYC, and our dedicated volunteers who helped make this possible!

05/30/2026

Save the Date!

This Sunday, May 31st, from 1PM to 4PM, The Free Store will be at the Riverdale Neighborhood House.

Also, from 2PM to 3PM, there will be a FREE meal for the community.

Head over, enjoy, lend a hand and meet your neighbors!

05/13/2026

From our dear friend
The Bronx Butterfly Community Arts Initiative™️

Community Social. So swipe all three slides in this post to see.

The Butterfly is happy to come back to Joyce Kilmer Park to pollinate love once again in the Highbridge community. Last year we shared our " Celebrate Mother" traveling mural art we donated to James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center

Come out and make friends in the community and meet other vendors, artists, organizations and community partners supporting the Friends of 4 Parks or join in and table!

Their mission to sponsor and administer local family-friendly programs and activities promoting environmental support, community engagement and maintenance of green spaces of Macombs Dam Park, Franz Sigel Park, Foster Park and Joyce Kilmer Park in the South Bronx.
Visit their website to learn more https://www.friendsof4.org/

If you're interested in tabling, go to Instagram link in bio to register:

See you soon. Bless 🦋

05/09/2026

We'll be there! Ray will be presenting a slide show that highlights all the amazing transformations happening at JBOLC this season 🤩🌞🙏😍

Fellow presenters include:
Paul Lozito, Deputy Executive Director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice; Gabby Perez, Education and Outreach Manager at the Bronx is Blooming; Christina McLaughlin, Urban Forestry Program's Manager at Trees New York; Raymond Pultinas, Director and President of the James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center. Presentation moderated by Nelson Villarrubia, Executive Director of Trees New York.

RSVP at our Bio Page Linktree

LOCATION:
Bronx River Art Center
1087 E. Tremont Avenue
Bronx, NY 10460

TIME:
6:00 pm - 7:45 pm

05/07/2026

☀️ This week's Nature Calendar by

This week’s Nature Calendar just dropped! Lots happening in the city this week and just outside the five boroughs to help us connect with nature and explore how it impacts our lives and history. Highlights include:

💃🏾 Caribbean music and dance at Van Cortlandt Park

🦪 The Black history of oystering with .bklyn

🐦‍⬛ A talk on how birding connects us to the city and each other at

🐸 A frog hike at

🌙 Exploration of Sufi poetry at

05/03/2026

🎨 Words of wisdom, painted by

04/30/2026

Congratulations to our friends at 🙏🏻

from
🧑🏽‍🌾 MICRO GRANT AWARDS! $10,000 to 10 NYC urban growers who are increasing their capacity to provide nourishing food, education, growing skills, and spaces to cultivate community for NYC residents.

🪏Follow their pages to support and participate in their offerings!

🥕Every applicant can activate funding for their projects - the more we uplift the power of urban agriculture to our local city, state, and federal policy and budget hearings, the better for all of us.

🌻 Look out this summer and fall to learn more about what groups are doing to increase access to food and land in NYC.

🍄‍🟫Thank you to the selection committee for their work in co-creating an application and selection process for our first ever round of micro grants. FSNYC is committed to move this funding from the USDA and directly into the hands of land stewards here on Lenape land.

04/29/2026

Last weekend at the Bronx History Museum: After working on composting in their garden, student volunteers got an amazing museum tour.

The exhibit, “When the Bronx moved,” about the numerous dance styles that emerged from the Bronx, was especially awesome.

This exhibit is about the dance forms originated in The Bronx, 1970–84, including Salsa, the Hustle, Rocking, Burning, Breakin', Disco, Boogying, and other forms of African-American and Afro-Caribbean dance. Exhibit features rare personal photos and memorabilia, clothing, oral histories, video clips, and more. Check it out!

04/28/2026

This week’s Nature Calendar from is live. We say goodbye to April showers and hello to May flowers (although we had A LOT of flowers in April). Here are some highlights in the city and beyond:

🌊 Ocean Haiku Hike at Orchard Beach

🛶 Canoe lesson at Van Cortlandt Park

🐦‍⬛ History of Sparrows in Brooklyn with

🎷 Jazz at

🎩 Gilded Age history at

🌙 Moonlit Walk at

04/27/2026

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"More grows in the garden than the gardener sows." ~ Spanish Proverb

Food for thought in the garden, from

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Near Intersection Of Goulden And Sedgwick Aves And W Mosholu Pkwy S
The Bronx, NY
10468

Telephone

+19177553559

Website

https://linktr.ee/jbolc

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