Summer Session Is about To Begin !

Hello Prospective Green Teens.

N.Y.C. Parks and Recreation would like to thank you for your intrest in helping your community. We are about to begin our summer session and you are invited to join me at Faber Park on:

Saturday July 14 & July 28 at 12noon

We have some interesting projects planned and look forward to your input as well with any ideas you may have.

Feel free to contact me and looking forward to meeting you, tell a friend !

To adopt trees or report tree care please log on to http://milliontreesnyc.org/html/care/care.shtml

Click ADOPT NOW.

Dematti Garden Project Has Begun !!!!

Hey...interested in photography or film production. Green Teens needs someone like you to help document the work we do. Be a part of City Parks Film Production Team.
 Here is a link to some of the photos and videos taken at the Green Teen field trip to DeMatti Harvest Garden on Friday 4/6/12
https://webmail.nyc.gov/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/463104/1/Green%2520Teens%2520-%2520Staten%2520Island%2520-%2520April%25202012?h=1a3660
Enjoy,
Jonathan Capone
(Y.M.M.) City Parks Productions

It's time to Spring into ACTION !!!

Here what's coming up for our
Staten Island Green Teens.

Staten Island Green Teens

A group of dedicated teen volunteers has recently done amazing work at the DeMatti Harvest Garden in Staten Island. The Staten Island Green Teens are group of teen volunteers whose mission it is to restore, recycle, engage and encourage the greening of more spaces in parks and playgrounds. The DeMatti Harvest Garden, once known as the Children’s Farm Garden and tended by “The Junior City Farmers” in the mid-1950s, is now the focus of the Staten Island Green Teens. With help from Staten Island Horticulture and Forestry Divisions, the Green Teens will clean, clear and re-energize the existing 30’ by 60’ garden space at DeMatti Park. For this spring, the goal of the Staten Island Green Teens is the restoration and planting of a low maintenance, ornamental and edible harvest garden .The group will eliminate invasive elements and begin to plant fruits and vegetables such as high bush blueberries, raspberries, kale, broccoli and mustard greens. The Staten Island Green Teens will plan a fall harvest celebration for the site and hope to locate and reunite some of the original “Junior City Farmers” for the event. The Staten Island Green Teens will also participate in a Sustainable Playgrounds design mentoring project with the Capital Team. The youth will participate in lectures, site visits to view projects in other boroughs, and a design project in the Borough—likely Greencroft Playground, which was last renovated in the 1970s

Sincerely,

Adrian Benepe

New York City Parks Commissioner

With the assignment of community service came the immediate thought of a boring, grueling yet necessary task. When I came across the Green Teen Staten Island program on the NYC Service website, my original thought was gone. I saw an oppurtunity to do something I would enjoy but gain my service hours at the same time. It was a chance to do something positive that would effect my own neighborhood environmentally. I would encourage my friends and kids my age in my community to enroll in this program because it allows you to make positive changes around your home that affect you and those you know.

Sean from Xavier High School

“Welcome to the Staten Island Green Teens Blog!

If you are interested in keeping our parklands green and clean, please email us at Green.Teens@parks.nyc.gov and type Staten Island Green Teens in the subject. You can also visit our recreation center shown below to enroll in the program by obtaining a free NYC Parks membership card. Parents must accompany youth 15yrs or younger  to register in the programs. To find out how to become a

NYC Parks Recreation Center member, please visit
http://www.nycgovparks.org/programs/recreation-centers/memberships

Below, you’ll find our participating center and their Green Teen schedules:

Faber Park Field House

2175 Richmond Terrace

Staten Island, NY 10302

Phone: (718) 816-5558

You can register to be member of our Center and The Green Teen Team

Tuesday to Friday 3:00pm to 8:00pm

Saturdays Noon to 2:00pm 
You can contact Staten Island Team Leader, Brett Copp, at brett.copp@parks.nyc.gov

Next Meeting will be April 18th @ 6pm

On the agenda: Volunteer opportunities for DeMatti Garden /Earth Day April 20
St. George Day April 21/ "Soap Box Car" for Street Games April 28

For more information on St. George day go to http://www.stgeorgedaysi.org/

WELL DONE,  Staten Island Green Teens
for the new compost bin at Faber Park...lookin good!




Take look at the slide show for more photos of our team in action.