It's My Park! Day, Oct 24, 2009

Thanks to the more than 100 Brooklynites that came out on a very rainy Saturday night to support Brooklyn parks by drinking Kombucha (courtesy of Kombucha Brooklyn), eating salsa (courtesy of Brooklyn Salsa), and drinking beer at Brouwerij Lane. We raised $375 for projects that night. Check out the pictures.

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Celebrate It's My Park! Day by getting involved in a park near you. Organized by Partnerships for Parks in the spring and fall, It's My Park! Day is a great way for New Yorkers to rediscover the open space and patches of grass in our neighborhoods.

Last spring, ioby donors funded an It's My Park! Day cleanup of a Veteran's memorial in Rosedale, Queens, organized by the Cornucopia Society. Watch the video here. This fall the Cornucopia Society is back at Veteran's Square to plant bulbs for spring.

In collaboration with Kombucha Brooklyn and Partnerships for Parks, ioby is connecting Brooklyn parks projects with local business sponsors. On October 24, from 6-9pm, Kombucha Brooklyn is debuting two new kombucha flavors at Brouwerij Lane in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and donating a portion of their sales that night to a Brooklyn project of their choice. It's My Park! Day volunteers should join us after their hard day planting and cleaning for a glass of Kombucha, beer, or just for the fun at Brouwerij Lane in Greenpoint at the corner of Greenpoint Ave and Franklin Ave. If you are a local Brooklyn business and want to find out how you can participate in donating to Brooklyn parks projects on October 24, please email us at info@ioby.org. Thanks to Whole Foods Market Bowery store, Kombucha Brooklyn, and Brouwerij Lane for making this event possible!

Brooklyn volunteers, here are some opportunities for you to become stewards of your parks:

Saturday, Oct 17
Gowanus Canal Conservancy, 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Volunteer clean-up along the Gowanus Canal near West Side of Degraw Street. More info

Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Plant 600 native grass plants along the interim Brooklyn greenway near the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Kent Ave. & Williamsburg Street. More info

Leif Erickson Park, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. w/music @ 2 p.m. More info

Sunday, Oct 18
Carroll Park, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. More info

Saturday, Oct 24
North Brooklyn Compost Project 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., NBCP celebrates another successful compost season with an end-of-season FUNraiser. Swing by the pile to bid on our silent auction items and participate in bulb planting and street tree stewardship/stormwater management activities around the triangle. More info

Sunset Park, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. More info

Greenwood Playground, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. More info

Butterfly Garden, 12 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. More info

Narrows Botanical Garden, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. More info

Dyker Beach Dog Park, 9:00 – 11 a.m. More info

This October there are groups organizing events everywhere. Visit Partnerships for Parks for more details in all five boroughs.