Enjoy an hour in the sun…. Learn how easy it is to share one hour a month to volunteer and help keep the Garden gates open for our community.

Thanks to Lovely Day for generously offering hot refreshment to volunteers during shifts.

Let’s raise a glass to celebrate the close of our second season open to the public.

Email us by Monday, Dec. 8 if you plan to plan to attend so we may ensure enough seating … and glasses.

Celebrate Midwinter and Lighter Days To Come!

Cocoa by A.B. Biagi
Hot Apple Cider by Lovely Day
Caroling by Molly Gallagher & Friends and Kim Kalesti

Open to the public. Free.

Focus:
1. Citizens Committee for New York City Neighborhood Grant. (Last year, the Garden received $3,000 for our Bees, Butterflies & Worms season-long initiative.)
2. Update on Feb. 8 Love Local Treasure Hunt.
3. Winter Garden activities.

Visit neighborhood shops, complete fun activities to win grand prizes and support the Garden!

Be our valentine and join us for Elizabeth Street Garden’s first LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8, come snow or come shine. Prize drawings at 6:30 p.m. This FREE event is open to the public.

Hunt for NoLIta and Little Italy neighborhood shops and restaurants floating green balloons outside and complete fun activities inside to enter grand prize drawings for treasure — more than $3,000 worth of amazing booty donated by 46 participating businesses. Prizes include gift certificates, dinners out, personal services, clothing, jewelry … to name a few. The more establishments visited, the more chances to win! Peasant, 194 Elizabeth St., will host prize drawing finale at 6:30 p.m. and provide light bites and refreshments.

“With LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt, we are thrilled to bring together elements of our neighborhood that make it so special — the small businesses, residents and Elizabeth Street Garden,” said Emily Hellström, Garden volunteer and event coordinator. “This event not only raises awareness for the Garden, but also invites us all to come together to build community and celebrate the unique treasure that our neighborhood truly is.”

In addition to their contribution of drawing prizes, participating businesses have pledged to give 10 percent of purchases made cooperatively with the LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt event to support Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden.

If you would like to be a part of the Garden’s LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt — as a participating business or volunteer, email [email protected].

How To Participate

1. Look for green balloons outside participating neighborhood shops and restaurants located on the LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt map. Maps will be available at the Garden, participating businesses and online.
2. Complete fun activities at each location to enter prize drawings for treasure contributed by participating businesses. The more shops visited, the more chances to win!
3. Join the discussion. Engage with us on Twitter @ElizabethStGrdn using #ESGLoveLocal. Check in at our Facebook Place ElizabethStreetGarden, tag yourself in our photos and upload yours to our Timeline. Post on Instagram @ElizabethStGrdn.
4. Win prizes and enjoy light bites and refreshments. Prize drawings will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Peasant, 194 Elizabeth St. You don’t need to be present to win … but wouldn’t it be more fun?

Neighborhood Shops and Restaurants Taking Part

• A.B. Biagi, 235 Elizabeth St.
• Adore Floral, 357 Lafayette St.
• Alex Mill, 268 Elizabeth St.
• Anya Ponorovskaya, 251 Elizabeth St.
• Armor-Lux, 232 Mulberry St.
• Ashtanga Yoga New York, 430 Broome St.
• Atelier Cologne, 247 Elizabeth St.
• Bag-all, 219 Mott St.
• BedHead Pajamas, 252 Elizabeth St.
• Broad Meadows, 246 Mott St.
• Cydwoq New York, 247 Mulberry St.
• Eileen’s Special Cheesecake, 17 Cleveland Place
• Emmett McCarthy | EMc2, 240 Elizabeth St.
• Freida Rothman, 248 Mott St.
• Go Green Organic Spa & Shop, 149 Bowery
• Isola Trattoria & Crudo Bar at Mondrian SoHo, 9 Crosby St.
• John Fluevog Shoes, 250 Mulberry St.
• Linhardt, 211 Mott St.
• Little Cupcake Bakeshop, 30 Prince St.
• Little Rascal, 163 Elizabeth St.
• Lolë New York Atelier, 112 Mercer St.
• Lost Wax Studio, 171 Elizabeth St.
• Love Adorned, 269 Elizabeth St.
• Lovely Day, 196 Elizabeth St.
• lululemon athletica SOHO Mens, 127 Prince St.
• Made in Earth, 250 Elizabeth St.
• Michele Varian, 27 Howard St.
• Nanako, 259 Elizabeth St.
• Nolita Wine Merchants, 227 Mulberry St.
• OTTE, 281 Mott St.
• Piccolini NYC, 167 Mott St.
• PUBLIC, 210 Elizabeth St.
• Red Flower, 13 Prince St.
• Shu’s Flower, 179 Mulberry St.
• Space Cowboy Boots, 234 Mulberry St.
• T Shop, 247 Elizabeth St.
• Tacombi at Fonda Nolita, 267 Elizabeth St.
• The Sock Hop, 248 Elizabeth St.
• Thomas Sires, 243 Elizabeth St.
• Three Monkeys Eyewear, 35 Spring St.
• Unis, 226 Elizabeth St.
• Vint & York, 247 Elizabeth St.
• VMV Hypoallergenics, 227 Mott St.
• Warm, 181 Mott St.
• Westerlind, 31 Spring St.
• Will Leather Goods, 29 Prince St.

Join thousands of community gardeners and greening professionals from all over New York City for a day of learning, sharing, networking and greening inspiration at the 31st Annual GreenThumb GrowTogether!

This year’s conference features favorite workshops from past years, as well as exciting new ones, including many hands on workshops for youth gardeners.

Pre-register before March 13 to guarantee breakfast, lunch, workshop attendance and a t-shirt.

Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden will cover the $5 registration fee for the first 10 attendees who pre-register by March 13.  If you are interested in attending, please contact [email protected].  Children under 12 are free.

Learn how easy it is to volunteer as little as an hour a month to help keep the Garden gates open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the gates can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.

It’s spring, and many of us need to get outside and play in the dirt!

Join Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden for bagels & spreads and coffee and help get the Garden ready for the season. Let’s clean, cut back, dig and divide. BYOPruners, if you have them.

(For the “other-than-green thumbs” among us, there is plenty of necessary organizing to do, as well. )

Open to the public and FREE.

Learn how easy it is to volunteer as little as an hour a month to help keep the Garden gates open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the gates can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.

Come help plan Garden volunteer social events and spring programming.

Find out how easy it is to volunteer as little as ONE hour a month to help keep the Garden open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the Garden can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.

Learn how to start a variety of herb and vegetable seeds in cold frames to plant out later in spring and establish a special Chinese-Italian kitchen garden that celebrates the diverse culinary heritage of our neighborhood. Both children and adults are encouraged to attend.

Open to the public and FREE.

Seed Planting is the first in a series of workshops offered by Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden as part of this year’s season-long gardening initiative Edible Garden Lab. Let’s engage with the Garden as a living laboratory and learn how to cultivate a vital green space that also provides a nutritious resource for the neighborhood and more opportunity for everyone to bring the Garden harvest home to enjoy.

Find out how easy it is to volunteer as little as ONE hour a month to help keep the Garden open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the Garden can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.

Find out how easy it is to volunteer as little as ONE hour a month to help keep the Garden open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the Garden can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.

Are you interested in reducing your household’s garbage by composting your food scraps but don’t know how? Come to the Garden with your questions and be ready to learn via hands-on activities and demonstrations by NYC Compost Project hosted by Lower East Side Ecology Center.

Open to the public and FREE. Please register in advance here.

Find out about the many options that New Yorkers have to compost their food waste on their own at home, at community gardens or with local composting initiatives. Find out also about the finer points of maintaining an indoor vermicomposting system, composting with a metal-can or three-bin system and dropping of food scraps at one of the many public food scrap drop-offs in the City.

Find out how easy it is to volunteer as little as ONE hour a month to help keep the Garden open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the Garden can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.

Garden volunteer Alan Young and his 2-year-old son Callum entertain kids with their favorite stories.

Open to all children under age 5. FREE.

Lower East Side History Month is an annual celebration of the rich and diverse history of the Lower East Side. Taking place during month of May, LES History month is an umbrella for a variety of public events, exhibits, tours and learning opportunities taking place in the historical definition of the Lower East Side — which includes the East Village, Chinatown, Little Italy and Alphabet City. Conceived and launched by LES-based cultural and community groups, LES History Month aims to connect our present to our past, exploring how our history can inform and inspire our future.

Walk with Lou Di Palo, proprietor of the family-owned food shop that has been a neighborhood  treasure for more than a century and author of Di Palo’s Guide to the Essential Foods of Italy, as he shares both his favorite places in Little Italy and his family’s storied history and engages in a discussion of the neighborhood’s past, present and future.

Open to the public and FREE. Find walk details here.

Jane’s Walk NYC is an annual weekend-long celebration featuring 200-plus free “walking conversations” throughout the five boroughs, led by urban enthusiasts and local experts who care deeply about their neighborhoods.

LES History Month is the annual celebration of the diverse and rich history of the Lower East Side — historically defined as including the East Village, Chinatown, Little Italy and Alphabet City. Conceived by LES-based arts and community groups, LES History Month aims to connect our present to our past, exploring how our history can inform and inspire our future.

Instructors from our neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. All skill levels are welcome. Please bring your own mat.

Open to the public and FREE.

May Studio of the Month Twisted Trunk Yoga instructors:
May 3 — Dana Covello
May 10 — Special Mother’s Day Mediation: Gina de la Chesnaye of The Lineage Project will lead a mediation for the entire family.
May 17— Laura Tulumbas Juell
May 24 — Yael BenReuven
May 31 — Suzanne Monto