Open Garden Day in Whitestone, Queens: Tour a local sustainable home garden.

Address, phone, and specific directions will be emailed to attendees.

Pop in for a few minutes or hang out all day (meaning from 10AM - 3:30PM :-).

Fruits, veggies, flowers, aromatics, and evergreens nestle together in this Permaculture inspired "forager's garden" fed by homemade compost. Strawberry, currant, gooseberry, blueberry,raspberry, blackberry, fig, pear, grape, kiwi, gojiberry, as well as traditional (and wild) crops are represented. Almost all the yardwaste is composted onsite. Seven people currently contribute some or all of their food waste to the 2 indoor and 2 outdoor enclosed composting bins. Plants (wheatgrass, mints, arugula, and more ) and bulbs (daffodil, grape hyacinth, Star of Bethlehem, mini Dutch iris, scilla, crocus) are available in exchange for contributions.

Some questions we will mull over...

What does "sustainable" mean in a setting like this garden? How does this garden turn "waste" into valuable resources? Why are compostables a form of "Nature's Money" and how can composting convert Nature's money into human money?

There will be prizes for the kids!

Come and observe Nature's engine of wealth creation at work!

Feel free to bring snacks and drinks to share. And be sure to bring a travel mug for your own use so we won't have so much of that dreaded landfill waste ;-). Guests are welcome. After 3:30PM, I plan to head over to the Queens Botanical Garden (which is only a few blocks from the Main St. Station of the #7 train) for the rest of their Summer Solstice Celebration which runs from Noon to 4:30PM. http://www.queensbotanical.org/programs/events Note that QBG admission is FREE every Sunday 4-6PM. The vegetarian restaurant Buddha Bodai is also nearby. http://www.yelp.com/biz/buddha-bodai-flushing . A great way for the whole family to enjoy a "Green" day!