The GreenThumb Gardeners’ Handbook

The GreenThumb Gardeners’ Handbook is your guide to maintaining a community garden in New York City. This guide covers a variety of topics, including event planning, construction work, accepting donations, selling garden produce, tree pruning, garden bylaws, and much more. The handbook is updated when legislation or other applicable policies change, and it includes many best practices, policies, and laws that pertain to community gardens in the GreenThumb network. Gathering these topics and policies in one place helps gardeners create and sustain thriving public spaces.