October happenings at Green Oasis Community Garden

[Catherine Lin]

OCTOBER HAPPENINGS

Hi garden friends, fall is always an exciting time as we near the end of the garden season! If you're interested in proposing your own event, info is available here.

Garden workdays

• Sunday Oct 5 12pm
• Sunday Oct 19 12pm

Garden workdays are open time for anyone to drop by and volunteer in the garden, no experience needed. Tasks include pruning, weeding, sweeping, composting, and repairs.

Urban ecology reading group

• Sunday Oct 19 3pm-5pm

Be part of a learning community on all things urban ecology! Bring your own reading material pertaining to the multi-species communities we’re part of, including topics such as gardening/horticulture, urban planning, soil management, the philosophy of science, history, anthropology, mycology, climate change, and birding. All genres welcome, including fiction. One hour of quiet reading time, one hour for free chatting and discussion.
Event organizer: Catherine (garden member)

Covert Covers: a book swap

• Sunday Oct 12 3pm-5:30pm

Attendees bring at least 1 book. Everyone wraps their books so the covers are not visible. You'd write a few bullet points about why someone would want to read it. Swapping happens in rounds so if you brought 1 book, you participate in 1 round. After swapping, everyone is welcome to hang out and chat about books they swapped / received / love right now / are writing.Any books left over will be up for grabs before being donated.

Event organizer: Shannon, @swappingbookswithshan

Finally, a creature spotlight: bumblebees!

Bumblebees are the only social species of bee native to NYC. As generalist foragers, they don't need to time their life cycles to the bloom of one flower and can be seen all season long. The hair on their bodies helps to trap pollen, and they have pollen baskets on their legs to carry it all. However, unlike honeybees, the bumble bee colony has an annual life cycle. At the end of the summer the foundress queen, her workers and male offspring will all die; only the newly emerged, fertilized queens survive to hibernate through the winter and found a new colony. 
More here. 

For more updates, follow @greenoasisnyc on Instagram or view the calendar at www.greenoasisnyc.org/events. 

See you at the garden,

Catherine