This six-week generative writing workshop explores the interplay between our physical surroundings and inner world. Through direct engagement with public environments, we will observe how walking, loitering, shopping, and commuting can inspire writing. How do these everyday movements shape perception, memory, and narrative? Observations and experience will become the foundation for new writing, unfolding into […]
Join staff from the St George Library for a hands-on, fun and exciting program about NYPL Green: Food & Climate Garden Series. We will be learning an Introduction to Climate Change Science by exploring food production. You're going to get our hands dirty this Spring and Summer! Join NYPL start their spring garden from seed, […]
Plants to the People redistributes free herbal medicine in the form of fresh herbs to our communities in New York City. Field Meridians will also be hosting open office hours for our community seed library! Come by Brower Park and drop seeds to share or pick up seeds for the season. Join us for […]
Get to know your tree neighbors, with your human (and more than human) neighbors. We’ll be checking in on our neighborhood street trees with a stroll up Nostrand Avenue to identify the trees that provide shade, ecologies, and homes for species of all kinds. We’ll be learning how to identify and care for trees, sharing […]
On this farm tour, participants will learn about the history of community gardens in East New York, explore systemic issues faced by the community, and gain insight from the response of local residents to build a healthier and greener neighborhood. Through touring the East New York Youth Farm, participants will see community-led urban agriculture in […]
Eco-Fiction Labs are collaborative workshops that use fiction as a design tactic to help communities imagine and shape ecological transitions in urban environments. This edition focuses on envisioning the future of Newtown Creek—a waterway that has suffered from severe pollution over the past two centuries. We invite participants of all ages, including community members, neighbors, […]
Come on a community dig to help map our local fungal networks! We want to learn and share about the unseen lives right under our feet. Focusing on Brower Park in Crown Heights, this session will start with a brief introduction to our local soil and mycorrhizal fungi, why they matter, and why we want […]
Students will create a range of colors from select dye material through acid and alkaline agents. The chemical expression of plant matter can be altered to create a variety of colors from one source. These stages signify three distinct forms of transformation expressed through the color scale: light, medium and dark. We will use citric […]
Palestinians are people of the land, and plants serve as an integral part of this connection. But what happens when this relationship is severed? In this knowledge share, we will examine ancestral plants and the role they play in Palestinian food and land-based culture. Together we’ll move through the history of foraging and generations-old culinary […]
This workshop will explore the unique role of grandmothers as curators of family histories, wisdom, and legacies. Join us for a participatory workshop and story circle where we invite you to bring your memories and stories to share about your grandmother. Together, we’ll reflect on the lessons and values grandmothers have passed down, and how […]
Lichen shape the world as we know it—their ability to flourish in disturbed places over long periods of time can build the soil necessary for other vegetation to emerge. Comprised of algae, fungi, and other organisms, lichen were among the first symbioses to be described, radically changing the ways in which we think of individuality, […]
The intention for this Intro to Herbalism in person immersion is to grow each individual’s awareness and relationship to their own internal ecology, the territory they are on and the messages that the plants growing in the North East bioregion are sharing with us. These four sessions aim to activate observational skills and curiosity towards […]
Giselle Liza Anatol is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) who specializes in Caribbean, U.S. African American, and multicultural American literature. Her Knowledge Share pulls, in part, from growing up in a large Trinidadian family; as a child, she eagerly listened to the folklore shared by her […]
Nature is for the birds! In this community bird walk, participants will become familiar with our local "backyard birds" and migratory birds and be able to identify them with sight and sound. This walking workshop will allow us to discuss community and bird behavior across themes of migration, symbolism, and more. Each walk will end […]