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Volunteer With EQA: Turn an unsightly lot into a Botanical Garden

Saturday, April 5, 2025

10:00 a.m.12:00 p.m.

This event repeats every week on Friday and Saturday between 3/7/2025 and 10/25/2025.

The Eastern Queens Alliance is creating a Community Peace Garden right outside of the Idlewild Environmental Center on an unused street lot. It is our mission to create beautiful spaces that will have positive impacts on our local community at large. 

 


 

Location

Entrance - Springfield Lane and 149th Avenue in Idlewild Park
Queens
Directions to this location

Cost

Free  

Registration

Event Organizer

Idlewild Environmental Center

Contact Number

3478242301

Contact Email

idlewildesc@gmail.com

Categories

Nature, Gardening

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Park
Paerdegat Basin Park
Ecology Park is a five acre site set within Paerdegat Basin Park. The goal of the park is to promote habitat restoration and ecological improvement, highlighting fourteen native plant community types that exist or once existed in New York City.

Ecology Park is only open at certain times of year when Parks staff are present in order to protect this unique landscape. Want to visit? Check out our Stewardship Projects page for restoration, planting, and educational events.

Partner Organization

Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy