Stuy Cove's Edible Food Forest, Replanted!

Stuy Cove has been a unique urban garden for 20 years, but now it's being dispersed to the community to make way for the East Side Coastal Resilience plan. It's Manhattan's only edible food forest, uses permaculture principles and it is almost all Native Plants. The many different kinds of plants will soon be replanted - this map will show you where.

Stuyvesant Cove was started by knowledgeable volunteers to support wildlife and is now run by Solar One - it has provided sustenance for thousands of birds, millions of insects and some lucky human foragers. Read more about it here - it's hard to imagine how many times this verdant place has surprised, delighted, educated, generated new understandings and engaged people.

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We'll miss this delightful carbon-sink, and look forward to its return! We hope that all the plants that came from Stuy Cove thrive in their new locations, and continue to feed our bird, bee and butterfly friends. Stuy Cove is reopening in May 2023!

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721 Decatur Community Garden

Bluebells, Hibiscus Gardeners of 721 Decatur Community Garden -

Morning Glory Community Garden

We are a volunteer run community garden in the Bronx. We planted Rose Mallow, Zizia, Sea Oats, Blue Bells all in the new tree pit beds that we just built. We chose to put the native plants ther...

Malcolm X Blvd Pollinator Corridor

We planted: Chasmanthium latifolium Erythronium americanum Heliopsis helianthoides Mertensia virginica Opuntia humifusa Polemonium reptans Zizia aurea This location is in the median tree beds between ...

6 and B garden

virginia bluebells

Stuyvesant Cove

Proposed as an alternative to high rise development and established as a garden in 2002, the Stuyvesant Cove Park Association brought in the idea that the cove should always have food available for bi...

La Plaza Cultural Community Garden

3 types of Solidago (Goldenrod), Asters, Currants, Snow Berry, Jacob's Ladder, Trumpet Vine, and River Oats are now planted in this especially biodiverse garden. See more at laplazacultura...

45th Street Compost Project (IG @resistance_is_fertile)

We chose plants that have bird, pollinator, medicinal and food value to bring to our site: American Black Currants, Snow Berries, Coral Berries, Inland Sea Oats, Late Boneset, Asters, Solidago, Primro...

Queens Botanical Garden

Diervilla lonicera, Elymus histrix, Erythronium americanum, Eurybia divaricata, Heliopsis helianthoides, Mertensia virginica, Polemonium reptans, Zizia aurea Will mainly be cared for by Assistant Gard...

Yellowstone Blvd. / LIRR Overpass Garden

The volunteers of Forest Hills Green Team transplanted coralberry and snowberry shrubs, heliopsis, Jacob's ladder, asters, sea oat grass and more to this public landscaping project, adding immeasurabl...

Greenacre Park

Private park for publix enjoyment, includes a waterfall, plantings, seating and a cafe. Open seasonally only. This park is on the National Register!

Carroll Street Tree Pits

I immediately transplanted bare roots: 2 Jacob's Ladders, a few milkweed and Heliopolis and many violets. One Wood Aster went in as well. prickly pears will callus over and then go into other pits on ...

Village East Towers (East 10th and East 11th Streets between Aves C/D)

VET is a Mitchell-Lama affordable housing in the East Village. We gardeners/cooperators took on the task of making our grounds more beautiful. Joan gardens in front of 411 E. 10th and also behind the ...