LIC Roots Garden Membership Drive Challenge

The Board of Directors of LIC Roots, Inc. asks your help to fund a "challenge grant" to encourage annual membership at our spring plant sale and membership drive.  Our annual spring plant sale and membership drive will occur the week of May 7-12.  It is a well attended event and last May we came close to the 200 member target.  This year we hope to hit 200.

The kind people at GrowNYC (formerly the Council on the Environment of NYC) assist LIC Roots to obtain our plant and vegetable starts at cost.  

Our working group begins coordination of flyer production and pasting in late April.

The Schedule to cover the sale and membership tables is finalized in early May.

The LIC Roots Community Garden /FF Brennan Memorial was created from a 3500 square foot pile of refuse on the southerly side of 47th Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets, in part to address the woeful shortage of community open space in the vicinity of the Dutch Kills (canal) Basin in Long Island City.  Our public private open space is an oasis among the factories and former factories of the Dagnon Terminal area. The LIC Roots Community Garden is  the only sitting area for more than a quarter-mile in any direction.  There is no public playground for more than one-half mile in any direction.  Our garden is a host to many different species of animals, not just humans.

The Board targets a 2012 membership goal of 200 members in order to:

1. Help meet the operating expenses of our public-private community open space, the LIC Roots Community Garden/Firefighter Michael Brennan Memorial; and
2. Help continue building a constituency.  Our three-fold mission is: To green our community, to maintain the memorial to FF. Mike Brennan and the other victims of the attacks of 9/11, and to support efforts to establish more, safe, and clean parks for the people of our western Queens neighborhood.